Ask Husi - Email Server
By
priestess (Fri Feb 29, 2008 at 07:40:31 AM EST)
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I'm migrating all our servers to a new host, which seems like a good opportunity to fix some annoying things.
In particular email: At the moment we're using exim4 and some pop3 server or another and squirrel-mail.
Whenever they ask me to create a new email account, I have to add a new user account for the whole machine. Making an /etc/passwd entry, giving shell access (which I then take away again), making a home directory etc. All just so they can collect email.
This seems inefficent
They also have to ask me explicitly to set up a .vacation message for 'em, and they can't change their passwords.
Be nice if there was just some (free software) code that I could install which would keep email accounts separate from the machine's user accounts, allow 'em web ways to change passwords, set up forwarding and auto-reply systems, and ideally give both pop3 access AND a web front-end to all these mail accounts.
Anyone know of a system like that?
I'm running Debian on all the servers.
