egroupware for small ISP

[khans]

Hi!
I'd like to install webmail interface for my customers. Now we are using squirrelmail, but it doesn't have enough functionality.
I think that egroupware could be good for it.
But I have few doubts.
1. Our customers are in vhosts enviroment with sql backend. Is it possible to install 1 egroupware for all customers.
2. I'd like to limit each account to it's own group (domain or main user group with many domains). So customers cannot see other vhosts which are hosted by my comapny.
Does anybody has some experience in similar configuration?

Regards,
Hans

[Frank-D]

HI,

do you want the customer to be able to add new users himself? Than it might get quite complicated, you may think about using mailtauth.
If you use 1 egroupware domain (domains means own egw-database) for all users, the users won't be able to do the admin-things, only able to edit their own preferences.
I think one egroupware install might work quite fine, if you want to give the users access to a limited number of apps (calendar, addressbook, infolog). Imho you would have to do some coding in order to assign users automized to specific groups according to their domains and give them the required ACLs for the different apps.

They way the access rights are configured in egroupware might not work for you if you use only one domain, because your use-case is quite different form the normal use-case. I am using egw in a little different way than it's intended use, too (using it for cross-enterprise communities and not inside enterprise groupware) and this causes different problems.
The other option is to give each user it's own egroupware domain, with own database. This way your customers have much more freedom. Imho there doesn' t exist a way to create domains automatically at the moment, but you might script this.

Frank

khans wrote:

Hi!
I'd like to install webmail interface for my customers. Now we are using squirrelmail, but it doesn't have enough functionality.
I think that egroupware could be good for it.
But I have few doubts.
1. Our customers are in vhosts enviroment with sql backend. Is it possible to install 1 egroupware for all customers.
2. I'd like to limit each account to it's own group (domain or main user group with many domains). So customers cannot see other vhosts which are hosted by my comapny.
Does anybody has some experience in similar configuration?

Regards,
Hans

[khans]

We want use webserver with DTC hosting panel. So users and domains,email are created inside DTC.
If one of users want check his email, he logs in into egroupware with his email address.
I see two options:
- more simple worse, user login with his email account and he is limited only to his account (not sharing cal, address book etc)
- better user login and domain is taken from his email address, posibility of on main admin account (in DNS domain or just main group with multiple domains) and subaccounts (emails). With sharing cal, address book PM inside one DNS domain or Group.

Is it possible use one frontend with multiple databases?

I want give user access to calendar, address book, email client, project managment. I want use egroupware mainly because better design and sync for calendar and address book then squirrelmail.

Thanks,
Hans


HI,

do you want the customer to be able to add new users himself? Than it might get quite complicated, you may think about using mailtauth.
If you use 1 egroupware domain (domains means own egw-database) for all users, the users won't be able to do the admin-things, only able to edit their own preferences.
I think one egroupware install might work quite fine, if you want to give the users access to a limited number of apps (calendar, addressbook, infolog). Imho you would have to do some coding in order to assign users automized to specific groups according to their domains and give them the required ACLs for the different apps.

They way the access rights are configured in egroupware might not work for you if you use only one domain, because your use-case is quite different form the normal use-case. I am using egw in a little different way than it's intended use, too (using it for cross-enterprise communities and not inside enterprise groupware) and this causes different problems.
The other option is to give each user it's own egroupware domain, with own database. This way your customers have much more freedom. Imho there doesn' t exist a way to create domains automatically at the moment, but you might script this.

Frank

khans wrote:

Hi!
I'd like to install webmail interface for my customers. Now we are using squirrelmail, but it doesn't have enough functionality.
I think that egroupware could be good for it.
But I have few doubts.
1. Our customers are in vhosts enviroment with sql backend. Is it possible to install 1 egroupware for all customers.
2. I'd like to limit each account to it's own group (domain or main user group with many domains). So customers cannot see other vhosts which are hosted by my comapny.
Does anybody has some experience in similar configuration?

Regards,
Hans

[Frank-D]

I don't do no nothing about those DTC things you wrote and related stuff ...
It is possible to use one frontend with multipe databases. Those databases are called "domains" in egw. It is not realy the same frontend, because lots of configuration things (inclusging available apps and basic layout decisions) have to be configured for each domain. Domains are completely separated concerning the data (address, calendar, projects, users ...). Of course you need a separate Database for each customer this way, but this is something you should be able to handle. This would give much more value to your customers, and would be more easy to handle concering the permissions.
On the technical site, a domain means, own seperate database, but same php-filesystem for egw.

Frank


We want use webserver with DTC hosting panel. So users and domains,email are created inside DTC.
If one of users want check his email, he logs in into egroupware with his email address.
I see two options:
- more simple worse, user login with his email account and he is limited only to his account (not sharing cal, address book etc)
- better user login and domain is taken from his email address, posibility of on main admin account (in DNS domain or just main group with multiple domains) and subaccounts (emails). With sharing cal, address book PM inside one DNS domain or Group.

Is it possible use one frontend with multiple databases?

I want give user access to calendar, address book, email client, project managment. I want use egroupware mainly because better design and sync for calendar and address book then squirrelmail.

Thanks,
Hans

Frank-D wrote:

HI,

do you want the customer to be able to add new users himself? Than it might get quite complicated, you may think about using mailtauth.
If you use 1 egroupware domain (domains means own egw-database) for all users, the users won't be able to do the admin-things, only able to edit their own preferences.
I think one egroupware install might work quite fine, if you want to give the users access to a limited number of apps (calendar, addressbook, infolog). Imho you would have to do some coding in order to assign users automized to specific groups according to their domains and give them the required ACLs for the different apps.

They way the access rights are configured in egroupware might not work for you if you use only one domain, because your use-case is quite different form the normal use-case. I am using egw in a little different way than it's intended use, too (using it for cross-enterprise communities and not inside enterprise groupware) and this causes different problems.
The other option is to give each user it's own egroupware domain, with own database. This way your customers have much more freedom. Imho there doesn' t exist a way to create domains automatically at the moment, but you might script this.

Frank

khans wrote:

Hi!
I'd like to install webmail interface for my customers. Now we are using squirrelmail, but it doesn't have enough functionality.
I think that egroupware could be good for it.
But I have few doubts.
1. Our customers are in vhosts enviroment with sql backend. Is it possible to install 1 egroupware for all customers.
2. I'd like to limit each account to it's own group (domain or main user group with many domains). So customers cannot see other vhosts which are hosted by my comapny.
Does anybody has some experience in similar configuration?

Regards,
Hans