External_mail

External Mailservers

In AD you can make settings that affect mailquota, mailing list and mail aliases, ...

These settings can be used to configure a remote server

mailman

to setup a mailman maillist server I need your help what has to be configured.

Belwue

Belwue Overview

Belwue is a Mail Provider for a lot of schools in Germany, Baden-Württemberg.

They use the software CommuniGate Pro Server and give you a mail domain and an administrative account to manage mail.

There is only a Web Interface available at Belwue, no command line tools.

Belwue Setup

1) Configure your school

• Edit /etc/linuxmuster/sophomorix/<school>/<school>.school.conf to use belwue with the entry:

[school]

MAILTYPE = belwue

• This will search for a configuration file /etc/linuxmuster/sophomorix/<school>/<school>.belwue.conf

2) Configure Belwue Access

• Use /usr/share/sophomorix/config-templates/belwue.template.ini as a template for <school>.belwue.conf and cofigure it.
• In the ACCOUNT section set BASE and PASSWORD (for the admin account).
• In the CONFIG section set MAILBOX_CREATE=all (Create mailboxes for all users) or MAILBOX_CREATE=maillistmembers (create mailboxes only for users that are in a group where the maillist option is set to true in AD).
• Test the config and see where data is saved with: sophomorix-mail --config -j

3) Test the connection

• Port 9010 must be open.
• The download takes some time if you have a lot of Objects at Belwue.
• Download data from Belwue with: sophomorix-mail --download-belwue-data

4) See what must be done

• Analyze the download with: sophomorix-mail --analyze-belwue-data
• The files that you need for upload are in /var/lib/sophomorix/mail/belwue/<school>/<school>.belwue.uploads

5) Do it

• Login to the belwue user interface
• Delete Mailboxes for users in MAILBOXES_DELETE_<school>.belwue.multimailboxes-utf8.txt
  • Guide Follows ...
• Upload the list of new Mailboxes: MAILBOXES_ADD_<school>.belwue.multimailboxes-utf8.txt
  • Guide Follows ...
• Look which Aliases you have to delete and why in: ALIASES_DELETE_<school>.belwue.txt
  • Guide Follows ...
• Look which Aliases you have to add and why in: ALIASES_ADD_<school>.belwue.txt
  • Guide Follows ...
• Create a maillist <maillist-name> as admin for each file: MAILLIST_ADD_<school>.belwue.<maillist-name>.txt and upload the file MAILLIST_ADD_<school>.belwue.<maillist-name>.txt as the members of <maillist-name>
  • Guide Follows ...
• Update the members of <maillist-name> with the file MAILLIST_UPDATE_<school>.belwue.<maillist-name>.txt
  • These files are NOT YET created at the moment
  • Guide Follows ...

Further Configuration

• You can add additional mail adresses in other domains to a maillist in the following file: /etc/linuxmuster/sophomorix/<school>/belwue/<school>-<maillist-name>.txt
  • one mail address per line (i.e. [email protected])