Documentation

[dawnstrider]

It seems there is no documentation on setting up a running system with this application. Please add one that instructs people on how to do this.

[HumanG33k]

No more news about documentation ?

[bryanpedini]

@HumanG33k actually you can find one here...
However it seems it doesn't perfectly work, at least not under nginx...

[HumanG33k]

@bryanpedini it s not just about nginx even the repo url is not up to date. I try it before comes here to ask more documentation.
and the forum post is look clear for me https://www.howtoforge.com/community/threads/postfix-virtual-hosting-with-ldap-backend-and-with-dovecot-as-imap-pop3-server-on-ubuntu-bionic-beav.79408/

this user just pick a random tutorial and just says it a new one.

[bryanpedini]

You're actually right, some more documentation wouldn't be anything but helpful.

I tried to install vMailpanel following that tutorial (always look at comment first, now I know) and it didn't work, then I tried to configure the original of the fork, Phamm, in the same way; and it didn't work.
So I tried to dig a little to see what didn't work and indeed (all tho I do not understand why it doesn't die from the F* die PHP command) the connection to the LDAP backend fails (echo "test" here, echo "test" there, pretty good method to find where the hell your code stops working).

Indeed I need to find a way to build my own mailserver without one-script bullshit like iRedMail and things like that, and that guide seems not suitable for...
Help appreciated if you ever found anything helpful online on how to create a mailserver from scratch including LDAP, postfix, dovecot and spamassassins/ClamAV tutorials (I'm pretty nerd on nginx and PHP but can't understand a line of LDAP's ldif code files).

Thanks in advance for any help;
Bryan.

[HumanG33k]

i also work on it. when i have finish i will back here with a tutorial. i use fusiondirectory which is a pretty good tool for manage ldap and it s in the debian official repository.

[bryanpedini]

It could be really really nice since I'm still relying on iRedMail, a tool (yes, open source) which I did not create and managing is quite tedious.
Without mentioning that the iRedAdmin panel also has a PRO version, something I don't like, regardless of anything.
With open source and user-managed products like vMailPanel we could be sure that nobody wrote bad or malicious code, since probably nobody has the time to go see the iRedAdmin panel source code at every release to check for bad code, on a truly open source project that's different.