[Dovecot] Getting Postfix Admin's DB to work with Postfix's/Dovecot's MySQL DB

Antoine Nguyen ngu.antoine at gmail.com
Wed May 16 10:55:59 EEST 2012


2012/5/16 Femi Ajayi <redhat19 at gmail.com>

> Hi all,
>
> I followed the instructions here:
> http://library.linode.com/email/postfix/dovecot-mysql-centos-5
> to configure Postfix to work with MySQL and Dovecot before discovering
> PostfixAdmin (I was searching for a visual tool for creating users).
>
> Since I had created MySQL database already for virtual domains and user
> mailboxes (following the instructions I linked to earlier)
> and PostFix admin's db too does the same.
> Question #1: is there anyway to make all these work with together for the
> creationg and use of virtual users/mailboxes?
> or is there another visual tool for creating virtual users/mailboxes?
>
> I had also installed Roundcube following the instructions on Roundcube's
> page: http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Howto_Install
>
> The questions now is:
> .
> #2. Roundcube came with its own database, which also stores user
> information.
> Is there a way to ensure that the user information is picked from the
> database created to work with Postfix (and not Roundcube's)?
>
> Thanks.
>

You can take a look at Modoboa (http://modoboa.org/). It includes a web
user interface to create users and a simple webmail.

Antoine


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