What happens currently with these users? Different passwords?

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 04:42:19PM -0300, Friedrich Locke wrote:

Hi folks,

i am planning to use opendalp to build my email infra structure. What happens is two users (two entries) hold the same email address ?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

gustavo.

On 13/3/2014 9:42 μμ, Friedrich Locke wrote:

i am planning to use opendalp to build my email infra structure. What happens is two users (two entries) hold the same email address ?

In our setup all users have unique mail addresses / mailboxes.

In such cases, we create a dummy user (we call it a "system" account) to create an account/mailbox which can be accessible by any users who will be given its password; I believe such mailboxes are best handled via IMAP and/or webmail and a policy must be formulated between sharing users on how messages will be processed.

I don't think that individuals should share mail addresses. If you need some or all mails to be delivered to multiple users/mailboxes, you can create aliases.

Since you are now starting this design, you may want to read: http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-technical/201202/msg00148.html

This might be useful too (mail alias setup): http://lists.arthurdejong.org/openldap-technical/2011/05/msg00033.html

The above apply to own setup; you may want to re-evaluate things.

Best regards, Nick

On 13/3/2014 11:58 μμ, Nick Milas wrote:

On 13/3/2014 9:42 μμ, Friedrich Locke wrote:

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i am planning to use opendalp to build my email infra structure. What happens is two users (two entries) hold the same email address ?

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Since you are now starting this design, you may want to read...

I was also thinking that, depending on your organisation needs, you may want to evaluate a paid solution like iredmail, Zimbra, Zarafa, etc.

You may of course build your own open source infrastructure, starting from scratch, but that may require time and effort, esp. depending on your internal and external resources and on your project time limits. Your decision depends on a lot of factors.

All the best, Nick