Actually you can handle these jobs through one of the many web-admin interfaces to Xmail; I built myself one of these interfaces in ASP, but there are many others (e.g. XMAIL-WAI if you are in a Windows server and XPAI in PHP)
At 17.04 11/03/2003 +0200, you wrote: > Hi Davide and people, > > > It seems that my struggle was fruitful, soon xmail will replace 2 >sendmail and 2 exchange server faily loaded ( over 280 domains and >approx 16000 e-mail addrs). > Now everything is fine and dandy, xmail behaved excellent on > different >tortures, from mail-bombs to simulated network problems. And I have to >mention again that the new filter framework proved to be extremely >robust and simple to use if not as feature full as sendmail's libmilter, >but it does what we need it to do. > Here is a short description of a real world situation: customer A > wants >to host 4 domains: 1 domain gold with maximum 1000 accounts, 2 domains >silver with 400 accounts and one domain bronze with 50 accounts , each >domain with its own quota, same gose for customer B that has another set >of domains with different parameters. > Now from the existing features of xmail I'm able to do everything >except for these things: > > -Limitation of maximum number of accounts ( and possibly aliases) > per >domain, this feature is essential for a commercial success of xmail and >I belive it will make xmail the dear of small ISPs. > > -A method to have an intermediate level between full server >administrator that can create/delete domains at will and postmaters that >are restricted inside of a domain, some kind of demi-gods that are >allowed create a limited and configurale number of domains with >predefined restrictions like domain quota and max number of accounts and >max number of aliases. This demigods will have to be defined in the same >TAB that now keep server admins or in a separate TAB. > > - Priviledge separation between domain creators, like once a demigod >created a domain this becomes his only to meta-administrate ( override >postmaster tasks and delete domain) that domain. His priviledges must >not extend over some other people domains even if is capable to >delete/rename/create domains of its own within the constraints of his >definiton. Of corse server admin will keep full override rights over ALL >domains. > > - The posibility to add new variables in domain TAB definitons ( and >even in the users ones ) in the form of name/value pairs to be able >store comments and stuff not directly related to server operatins, like >comments and accounting info. > > > I know that all those could be implemented in some middleware > sitting >between xmail control channel and configuration/administration >application but I'd really like to see at least accounts nummber >restriction and generic variables in the main distribution. > If some of the thing I've listed above can be done in the already >existing xmail, excuse my blindness in reading the docs and help me see >the light :-) with some examples. > Davide if you are not interested about these features plese > helpme at >last with some insightfull ideeas of where is the best way to name/place >those variables to be consistent with the existing naming/organization >conventions and I'll try to do the programming as much as possible. > Of course if you or anybody else have some patches related to that >features lingerin somewhere I'll be more than happy to test them and >help debug/finish them. > Thank you all for your time used to read this rather lenghty message >and keep up the good work. > > Mircea C. > > > > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------- Domenico Bianco Cell. +39 338 4811781 Fax +39 02 700 592 654 9euro www.9euro.com Registrazione domini da � 9,00 OP Computer www.opcomputer.com Hardware & software LIVEYOURMAIL - L'altra faccia della pubblicita' http://www.liveyourmail.com FAX 02 700 521 829 -------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
