I'm glad to hear that you're happy with iMS. As far as FusionMail goes -
anything that is added to it will be relatively small - FusionMail is
something that we use for several purposes but it is not intended to be a
complete mail server. We provide it to demonstrate to new users what iMS
can do and also provide a useful way for new users to get started coding
their own systems.
Regards,
Howie
----- Original Message -----
From: Brett Payne-Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: inFusion Support List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 10:13 PM
Subject: [iMS] FusionMail Tailoring
> Hi All,
>
> I just thought I would contribute my 2c worth to the current discussion
> about Fusionmail. We are basically just starting up in the whole area of
> web development and hosting. The decision to go with iMS for email
> services was made on the basis of it's strong integration with CF, and
> now that we have had it running for a while I find there are *heaps* of
> fringe benefits too ;)
>
> The actual installation and set up of FusionMail wasn't too much of a
> problem (as I recall now), it did basically install and run straight out
> of the box. Since then however I've made two reasonably significant
> changes to FusionMail. The first to do with the handling of domain names
> and the other to do with domain administration.
>
> Domain Names.
> We are hosting a few small domains so far and we set each of them up
> with a URL like http://mail.mydomain.com.au so they have a web based
> mail interface if they want to use it. What I didn't like about the
> interface was that everybody had to put in the name of their domain when
> they were logging on, but because they have their own interface the
> domain name is already in the URL, and anyway my clients don't need to
> know that they share the mail interface with everybody else. So I added
> a field to the Domain table called 'PrivateDomain' and changed login.cfm
> so that it extracts the domain name from the URL then checks in the
> database to see if PrivateDomain is true for the domain. If it is true
> then the domain name is replaced on the page as a hidden field, see
> http://www.netsettlement.com.au. There may be cases where we don't set
> up a private mail URL so in that case those clients will need to enter
> their domain name and they will use the 'public' interface at
> http://www.eaglehawk-computing.com.au. For administration I also
> modified domain.cfm to include PrivateDomain.
>
> Domain Administration.
> In reality (for us) this is really 'User' administration... I didn't
> really like the fact that as a 'domain administrator' you could see the
> 'Domain' button but not the 'Users' button on the menu bar. This meant
> that a person could change the maximum mailbox and message sizes for
> their domain but could not add new users to the domain. (I may have
> jumped the gun on this a bit because I found in the code where the
> 'Users' button would appear for a domain administrator if they had any
> 'managed users'.) Anyway, as the system administrator I don't want
> domain administrators tinkering with mailbox and message sizes, these
> are things that are set as part of their contract and are not changed
> unless they renegotiate the terms of their agreement. But I do want them
> to look after any and all users that are part of their domain, and they
> should have access to the 'Users' facility regardless of whether they
> have any 'managed users' since they are the domain administrator. To
> make this work I had to modify index.cfm and verifyusermanager.cfm
>
> My problem now is that when Howie brings out the new and improved
> FusionMail I'll have to cut and paste my changes into it. It will be a
> small price to pay...
>
> Regards,
>
> Brett Payne-Rhodes
> B)
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