Hello All, At 05:49 PM 6/29/2003, OSC Hosting SysAdmin wrote: > As some of you are aware, some of us have been > wanting a new interface for Vpopmail that > incorporates a few key things and would be > considered an "upgrade" to the great Qmailadmin:
That would be very nice. As great as Qmailadmin is, it does have some limitations :-( > 1. Must use PHP/MySQL. PHP would be nice, but Perl could work as well. As for the MySQL bit, I think that would have more to do with Vpopmail, wouldn't it? Like Qmailadmin, I don't think it should matter what Vpopmail is using for it's backend; it should only be a "wrapper" for the Vpopmail commands themselves. > 3. Must be Customizable and "Brandable". Agreed. It would be nice to be able to easily provide a customizeable interface for white-labelling for re-sellers. > 4. No need to recompile source to make code > changes (PHP). Definately agreed! As I mentioned above, it wouldn't *have* to be written in PHP; Perl would do just fine, and may actually work better as far as calling on the various Vpopmail commands. > 6. Easy to install. Yes, a nice unzip-into-the-directory-you-want, then setup the appropriate VirtualHost values, and you're good to go :-) The recompiling whenever I want to make changes always gets to me :-( > 8. Built-in "Super User" login/control panel (this > would deprecate vQadmin and incorporate it's > functions into one single interface). I like. For this, I envision a "Username" box and a "Password" box (as opposed to "Username", "Domain", and "Password"). "Username" would typically consist of the full email address, and the appropriate rights granted from there. For example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = admin rights for the domain [EMAIL PROTECTED] = rights for your own account only And just specifying a username like "administrator" would give full administrative rights to everything (i.e., add/remove domains, create alias domains, set the number of addresses, forwarders, lists, etc. allowed). I wouldn't mind seeing another level just below full administrator that you could give to, say, your Support staff to be able to log in and lookup/change any users' password for them, and possibly add/remove email addresses (if the domain administrator can add/remove email addresses, Technical Support should be able to as well!), but be unable to add/remove domains, set the number of email address quotas, etc. > but for now, I've attached some screenshots of the > login page and Postmaster Control Panel for you all > to look at and comment on. As Paul suggested, would you be able to post them on a site, and just post the URL(s) for those who are interested to be able to have a look? I look forward to seeing what comes out, and then hopefully everyone working to add/improve features on it. I know we would be very interested, since we are thinking of having a more customized interface for our Customers anyway. Those are just some preliminary thoughts, and they may change as I have more time to think about them :-) But there are hopefully *some* good ideas in there :-) Cheers, Alan Murrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
