Anybody here has experience with phpmywebhosting s/w ??  I donno how far it matches with Plesk and other commercial webhosting s/w?? 


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From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us on behalf of Sanjay Darisi
Sent: Wed 1/19/2005 6:17 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Cc: stevenbalthazor@gmail.com; mike@garfias.org
Subject: Re: Multiple Domains+ LDAP + Postfix + Webmail
 

OK, following Mike's and Steven's suggestions, I might not go with LDAP 
with the limited knowledge that I have about it. If this is the scenario,

If a client/admin added a user ( for email) for a particular hosted 
domain, other users in that domain should be able to view the new user's 
email in their contacts (like the way you select an email id in the 
To/Cc/Bcc address bar - doesn't matter if it's a client/webmail) with 
out all the users adding this new user in their contacts explicitly.

what should I do?

Thanks,

Sanjay.


Steven Balthazor wrote:

>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:40:09 -0700, Mike Garfias <mike@garfias.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>LDAP can be used that way, but LDAP really isn't a simple thing.  I wouldn't
>>recommend attempting it unless you're willing to put in a serious amount of
>>time learning it.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>I would second second the thoughts that Mike had about LDAP.  I tried
>to use OpenLDAP as a "person database" about a year ago for exactly
>the type of setup you are talking about  -- it was a good way to waste
>a week.  I ended up going with a mysql backend instead of LDAP (and I
>seem to recall there were some squirrelmail modules which allowed you
>to create contact lists in mysql also...).
>
>The good news/bad news with Postfix and a mysql (or any db, including
>LDAP) backend is that you can find notes and howtos from many people
>on the web and all of them work but each one does it slightly
>different.  So until you finally put it all together once and it
>actually works you can get pretty confused trying to troubleshoot why
>your particular installation does not work..and why did one person do
>it one way and another person did it another way.  The reason why is
>that Postfix makes everything configurable.  After I finally got mine
>working, I had an A-ha moment and it all made sense, but until that
>moment I was just trying to blindly follow someone else's instructions
>(which might be only 80% complete).
>
>At least with a Mysql backend there are many people that have done it
>and you can figure out from the many different tutorials how to
>actually make it work.  With a LDAP backend there are very few
>people/notes about how to make it work.  LDAP seems simple, but it is
>not something to start with lightly.  You quickly run into things
>like: how do you edit the LDAP database, how do you modify the schema,
>etc.  Things may have changed in the last year...
>
>I have used squirrelmail with a postfix/mysql setup and it works
>pretty good; however, I have not hit it with a substantial load so I
>can't speak to its performance under fire.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Steve Balthazor
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