Web Based Mail Servers:

[A. Khattri]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Bill Campbell wrote:

> The IMP webmail module for horde allows one to select which server one
> wants to access for e-mail.  Actually, the server configuration includes
> the domain name associated with outgoing mail as well as the IMAP server
> and protocol for accessing that IMAP server (e.g. straight IMAP, IMAP with
> tls, IMAP with tls and self-signed certificates, ...).  This provides a
> fairly easy way to support e-mail from virtual domains so that the
> recipient sees it as coming from that virtual domain, not necessarily the
> primary domain of the webmail server.

While Received: headers might show otherwise, the recipient always sees
the email as coming from the virtual domain the person signed in with,
when using SquirrelMail. There is no "primary" domain per se - all logins
use the full email address as the username.

True, SquirrelMail doesn't have per-user IMAP server support out of the
box however there is a plugin that adds that.

> In addition, horde may be configured to use the IMP authentication for
> horde and all its modules, providing a single sign on for e-mail,
> calendars, etc.

We auth out of a MySQL database anyway - same database is used for
authentication for other services (e.g. RADIUS).


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