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[mpkapadia]

Hi all

I have a system with rackspace, When that was installed they did not have any control panel besides webmin.
Webmin is cool for managing server

But i have to give end users functionality for addinf pop/ ftp accounts etc etc , and cannot do that with webmin

I checked for plesk but it is meant to be installed on a CLEAN server. I already have over 100 live sites on the same and CANNNOT afford a screwup or downtime.

What do you suggest, Is there anything that i can put which will sit on top of the existing setup and maybe coexist with webmin and give me the needful.

The minimum i need is adding of pop accounts.

Suggestions anyone?
Regards
Manish Kapadia
Bombay-India

[cbaker17]

Im not aware of any extensive control panel that will integrate seamlessly with your existing setup, but you may be suprised to know that you can actually give your users access to webmin for their own domains and for only the services you want, you can deifne this all in module options located in the top left hand corner.

[mpkapadia]

Sure something like that is possible in webmin but reading other posts about control panels on this forum i see that most people are against use of Webmin for end users.

I think it was kunal who had said so if i am not mistaken.

do i have no other options.

Rgds

[WildWayz]

How do you add pop3 accounts with Webmin?
I can do email redirects, but not POP3 accounts.

Ta
James

[mpkapadia]

Steps

1 Add the user through webmin (THis is in System - User and groups)

Eg created a user domain1

2 In servers > Sendmail > Local domains make sure your domain is listed out there , Make sure that you put it if it is not. THis basically adds to the file sendmail.cw

3. Agian in servers > Sendmail > Address Mapping
Create a mapping that mail for domain1.com send to address domain1 (Address domain1 here will mean user domain1)

It will look like below ( THe file /etc/mail/virtusertable)

@domain1.com domain1


Thats it you just created a pop mail id domain1@domain1.com

You can do it for any other account Eg if u have created a user "joe" then for him you will write as follows

joe@domain1.com joe


Hope this helps

Regards
Manish Kapadia
Bombay-India

[WildWayz]

Thanks

One thing, when I send emails out through the server I get this error...

"Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:22:08 GMT
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@hyperblade.moose-shack.propagation.net>
To: wildwayz@hyperblade.moose-shack.propagation.net
Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
Parts/Attachments:
1 Shown 11 lines Text
2 Shown 384 bytes Message, "Delivery Status"
3 Shown 577 bytes Message, "test"
3.1 Shown 2 lines Text
----------------------------------------

The original message was received at Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:22:06 GMT
from wildwayz@localhost

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<wildwayz@clara.co.uk>

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mailspool.clara.net.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550 rejected: cannot route to sender <wildwayz@hyperblade.moose-shack.propagation.net>
554 <wildwayz@clara.co.uk>... Service unavailable

[ Part 2: "Delivery Status" ]

Reporting-MTA: dns; hyperblade.moose-shack.propagation.net
Arrival-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:22:06 GMT

Final-Recipient: RFC822; wildwayz@clara.co.uk
Action: failed
Status: 5.2.0
Remote-MTA: DNS; mailspool.clara.net
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 rejected: cannot route to sender <wildwayz@hyperblade.moose-shack.propagation.net>
Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:22:08 GMT"



Any ideas?

James

[WildWayz]

Just a bit of background info...

I have my server with ***** (I know - they are bad).
Their dedicated servers would not support PHP4, so I paid for them to put RedHat 6.2 on.

That was it - no other help from them.

I had to set the server up myself, so I daresay I missed some things

Domains work fine, so does PHP4/MySQL/APache/perl that I installed.

qpopper and sendmail are installed too.

I know I am most likely out of my league here, but I am a fast learner (and I am not a newbie ).

Any help would be appreciated.

Ta

James

[mpkapadia]

Try sending out mail through the smtp server of you local isp, Very high probabilities that your Isp (*****) must have stoped relaying except from localhost.

So this woud mean that any popaccount@domain.com on your server would have to use the ISP smtp server for outgoing mails and not yours.

Even we have done the same for our setup and dont give smtp

Rgds,

Manish

[WildWayz]

Hi ya again

Thanks for the help... another question

In Webmin, I got to Sendmail Options and click on DOMAIN MAPPING and I get this error "Your sendmail configuration file does not have the necessary directive for domain mapping. "

Same for OUTGOING ADDRESSES.

Is this normal?

--James

[WildWayz]

Also, when I make an account for the POP3 user, he can still FTP/Telnet into the server.

Is there anyway to set this up as only a POP3 account?

--James

[mpkapadia]

I am not sure how you would disable the ftp but reg telnet for security purpose what you can do is just allow him to change password only on telnet session and nothing else

How would you do it?

When you create a new user through webmin under shell permissions you just put /usr/bin/passwd .
Your user would not be able to do anything except change passwords now

Hope this helps,

Guys this is going off topic. If possible james you continue this in another thread , My initial question here is being lost,

Regards
Manish

[Slydder]

For those of you interested there is an Open Source Control Panel in Development. It will be Linux/NT compatible and able to install onto existing servers. We have started a new Source Forge site to assist in coordinating the project. If interested check it out here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ngcpanel/

We are still looking for people to help on the project as well.

Chuck