Hello!
i ve yesterday bought a dedicated server from servermatrix (plan2), with redhat ent. 3 and cpanel w/ fantastico installed...

i need to do this:

Configure a mail-server, that will provide e-mail for each domain, in this format:

pop3 mailboxes, of standard preconfigured size, with some limits on attachments,

username= user@domain.com
passwd= whatever user requests...

Auto-signup for mailboxes on domains i choose from an administrator panel...

smtp server authentication
pop3 server authentication


i would also prefer, all settings for users or anything else,
except mailboxes, to be on a My-SQL database i have,
so, if i change dedicated server in future, i lose nothing!!!
(i would only have to copy paste all mailboxes files, and maybe some config files for mail program...)





can u tell me how i do all these????????????????

Originally posted by hookgr

can u tell me how i do all these????????????????

This is like asking "how do I set up a web hosting server?"

Most of the things you asked should be done by cPanel automatically when you create an account.

I'd suggest you hire an admin to do your box for your.

Good luck!

I'd suggest you hire an admin to do your box for you
... or ask those questions to your dedicated server provider. If you were our customer our staff would gladly give you some hints ... I guess ServerMatrix will do the same.

Originally posted by atchoooo
... or ask those questions to your dedicated server provider. If you were our customer our staff would gladly give you some hints ... I guess ServerMatrix will do the same.

It's clear the user does not know how to manage the box at all. The DC providing basic support for stuff like this, does nothing to help the end user.

This users box is probably completely unsecured, as well.

I would suggest hiring a server admin who can walk you through the management of the box, secure the server for you and provide you with ongoing assistance.

Sirius

where can i do that ?

Once again, I think you should contact your server provider! Your server provider can probably upgrade your plan to include management or maybe it's included in your plan. You can also search for "outsourced support" on this forum you'll find some good results.

any more opinions, about how i can do it myself?

up! .

I'm sorry that I can't help, but what you're asking takes a few long tutorials and articles, which I'm a bit too old to write.

All the best

i dont ask for tutorials, just say me those i ask...
i think they are about 30-50 lines... maximum!

Level of support provided is indirectly proportional to the number of exclamation marks in your subject. But what the hey, I'll let you off this time... :D

I think you really have two problems here: one at a conceptual level of how a server ties together to provide features like POP3 mailboxes which you create through an interface, and the other at a service level of how to configure individual daemons to work together. You'll find people are generally willing to help out with the specifics of the latter problem, but the former problem has too much scope to be explained in any useful detail here.

What you need to do is sit down and work on the first problem, and worry about the specifics later. You need to ask yourself questions like...

"I presumably want this to be automated. What system do I use to add new users, and is there a simple mapping between user creation and mailbox creation?"

"How am I going to authenticate users in the system? Do I want this setup to be centralised (in which case, for example, shadow passwords may be unhelpful) for all services or am I willing to give up a little maintability for convenience? Do the services even support centralised authentication?"

"What kind of system can I use to integrate a web-based configuration interface with my service backends?"

... and many more which only you yourself can think of, because those hold the answers which are unclear in your mind. Only once you've sat down and worked through this, perhaps asking specific questions along the way (does my SMTP daemon support PAM authentication?) to a more experienced user, can you begin implementing a system in a safe and reliable way. Those who try to jump the gun end up with a semi-working system that breaks or is broken into at some point in the future.

i ve done all these questions...
also i ve answered most of these...
the problem is that i know new users are being added via whm or cpanel, but there u can add just a mailbox each time manually...

the thing i want to do is this:

have the sendmail (this is what my server runs),
cinfigured in a way, that will allow users to log-in, via a mysql database, so there is no more problems if in future i change server, how to do that, and also make the system to allow autoregistration...

if i do a php script that does system(user add), i ll fuc* up my system and get it full of users!!!
so i need something that will create virtual-mail users (not machine users), and also that in mysql...

also, i need to work out how the server must be setup to let them authenticate with this...

any help is welcome!

don't want u tell me the exaxt method, step by step, (if not possible, or u have no time), but what in general lines i should do...

I dont think you can have Exim (not sendmail, which is just a symlink to Exim, unless you changed it) on Cpanel server to work with MySQL to store user information.

ok, one more question...
i have sendmail running on this server...

you say exim does what i want...

i have also 5 ip addresses!
can't i setup exim to work on ip 10.10.10.2 port 25 and 110,
and sendmail on 10.10.10.1 port 25 and 110???

No-one said you wanted Exim, in fact the poster explicitly stated that Exim won't work with MySQL authentication. He also stated that cPanel uses Exim by default, under the guise of a symlink to sendmail; now you insist you're running sendmail.

If you can't even spend the time to read posts carefully, then we can only assume you're looking for a quick way out and aren't really interested in developing a proper solution. In that case, I'll find another place where my help will be put to better use.

i dont think that is true.
i just am not fluent in english cause im from greece.
So if cpanel has exim as u say, what is the solution to allow ti run with mysql authentication for users?