first off all i would like to thank all the people who developed roundcube, it's a great webmail application i've seen, if not the best. so without further ado, i would like to ask a very newbie question, how would i create users for roundcube? what interface will i use? will phpMyAdmin do? i tried logging in to my newly install roundcube by using the user created during the fresh install of my freebsd6.1 box, but i always get "login failed" message. is roundcube using maildir? my postfix and dovecot was configured to use maildir.
TIA
RE: adding new user It has been said time and time again, and yet again, that Roundcube is simply an email client. How do you add a user to Outlook Express? How do you add a user to any other email client ???
You must have an email address, it is really that simple.......
Charlie Hazlett Columbus, Ohio, USA -----Original Message----- From: jan gestre Sent: Mon, 12 June 2006 03:05:52 To: users@lists.roundcube.net Subject: adding new user
first off all i would like to thank all the people who developed roundcube, it's a great webmail application i've seen, if not the best. so without further ado, i would like to ask a very newbie question, how would i create users for roundcube? what interface will i use? will phpMyAdmin do? i tried logging in to my newly install roundcube by using the user created during the fresh install of my freebsd6.1 box, but i always get "login failed" message. is roundcube using maildir? my postfix and dovecot was configured to use maildir.
TIA
The long answer is : You must make sure you have understood how to create users with postfix (see postfix documentation), then make sure that dovecot is working correctly for those users (see dovecot documentation), at which point Roundcube is connecting via IMAP to your dovecot server.
You will have to specify the name or ip of your dovecot server in the configuration file of roundcube (the php files) and use your email/username and password on the login page
Thomas
On 6/12/06, Charlie Hazlett charlie@hazlett.net wrote:
It has been said time and time again, and yet again, that Roundcube is simply an email client. How do you add a user to Outlook Express? How do you add a user to any other email client ???
the problem is i don't know where to start, in my current squirrel on debian, email users are system users, i was hoping this setup will work with roundcube in my freebsd box, but it doesn't, i've looked at the logs, but i can't see anything pertaining to dovecot or roundcube for that matter.
You must have an email address, it is really that simple.......
-----Original Message----- *From:* jan gestre *Sent:* Mon, 12 June 2006 03:05:52 *To:* users@lists.roundcube.net *Subject:* adding new user
first off all i would like to thank all the people who developed roundcube, it's a great webmail application i've seen, if not the best. so without further ado, i would like to ask a very newbie question, how would i create users for roundcube? what interface will i use? will phpMyAdmin do? i tried logging in to my newly install roundcube by using the user created during the fresh install of my freebsd6.1 box, but i always get "login failed" message. is roundcube using maildir? my postfix and dovecot was configured to use maildir.
TIA
the problem is i don't know where to start, in my current squirrel on debian, email users are system users, i was hoping this setup will work with roundcube in my freebsd box, but it doesn't, i've looked at the logs, but i can't see anything pertaining to dovecot or roundcube for that matter.
I've got it running on OS X server (it's like freebsd but we spend a lot of time trying to lock the GUI out from touching our files:) ), both tested right on the localhost and a separate server -- regardless, I still think you're confused on exactly what this can and can't do.
This thing really is just like an application itself, pretty much what everyone is getting too. You can install it on whatever web host you have the mind too so long as you:
- can install a database
- can run a decent php setup
You add the mysql tables into your database via the mysql.initial file supplied by the developer.
Then you add the database values in the db config file, and put in your mail values in the main config file. That's it -- the main config file takes values like you would any application -- in/out server, server authentication method, domain, etc. You can set it up to read multiple domains if you'd like, but it's not going to matter so much unless your mail server reads those domains as mail domains.
So it DOES use system users, just like any other mail application in the world uses system users on a server, so long as you've given them mail ability. But it does NOT do any advanced functions like change your password, etc. It's just a remote application that everyone uses, the values you supply are simple mail values -- unless I'm confused by your statement, I think you're just over thinking it:) It's not married to the system in any way except the values you tell your server it's allowed to submit to that application for mail enabled users.
On 6/13/06, Brady J. Frey brady@dotfive.com wrote:
the problem is i don't know where to start, in my current squirrel on debian, email users are system users, i was hoping this setup will work with roundcube in my freebsd box, but it doesn't, i've looked at the logs,
but
i can't see anything pertaining to dovecot or roundcube for that matter.
I've got it running on OS X server (it's like freebsd but we spend a lot of time trying to lock the GUI out from touching our files:) ), both tested right on the localhost and a separate server -- regardless, I still think you're confused on exactly what this can and can't do.
This thing really is just like an application itself, pretty much what everyone is getting too. You can install it on whatever web host you have the mind too so long as you:
- can install a database
- can run a decent php setup
You add the mysql tables into your database via the mysql.initial file supplied by the developer.
Then you add the database values in the db config file, and put in your mail values in the main config file. That's it -- the main config file takes values like you would any application -- in/out server, server authentication method, domain, etc. You can set it up to read multiple domains if you'd like, but it's not going to matter so much unless your mail server reads those domains as mail domains.
So it DOES use system users, just like any other mail application in the world uses system users on a server, so long as you've given them mail ability. But it does NOT do any advanced functions like change your password, etc. It's just a remote application that everyone uses, the values you supply are simple mail values -- unless I'm confused by your statement, I think you're just over thinking it:) It's not married to the system in any way except the values you tell your server it's allowed to submit to that application for mail enabled users.
got it running already, but not according to the documentation i've read,
e.g. when logging in the roundcube gui, user + password will log you in but when i append the domain to the username e.g. user@sample.com , it always says login failed, is this normal, i mean logging in without the domain part? although i have not make the box public, i was able to send mails to the outside meaning postfix is working, right?
got it running already, but not according to the documentation i've
read, e.g. when logging in the roundcube gui, user + password will log you in but when i append the domain to the username e.g. user@sample.com , it always says login failed, is this normal, i mean logging in without the domain part? although i have not make the box public, i was able to send mails to the outside meaning postfix is working, right?
It's normal to login without the domain -- unless you house multiple mailing hosts on your server (either an alias or a virtual host), in which case you'd use the array function in the main configuration file to select a drop down of aliases, or install multiple versions of roundcube hosted on different url's (which we do at my company, actually -- I have 6 roundcubes, each with a custom skin catered to that company -- it just seems to ease confusion for my average users).
Either way, I have one on dreamhost.com and six on my work hosts, none of which we use the URL after our username, because the mail.domain.com is specified in the config (and if there's multiple, it's specified in the array option in the main config).
If you've sent mails through the outside world, and you're using your smtp.domian.com or mail.domain.com instead of the php mail function, then your postfix is working just fine:) If you have the outbound server blank, it's using php to send the mail, and will bypass postfix.
Regardless, if you can login, see your mail using your regular user name without email extension, and send mail, postfix is working just fine:)
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