Topic: Configuring SOGo

[edform]

Having successfully loaded SOGo I cannot find any documentation explaining how to set it up, although some of the obvious stuff - setting ACLs and the like - is easy.

What I cannot get to grips with is making multiple identities available for a user. In Horde I can set up multiple identities for a each user and choose which identity to use from a dropdown list when sending mail  - user1@domain1, user1@domain2 etc.

There is a dropdown facility in SOGo in the mail composition window but it only contains the default identity and I can't see where to add new ones.

Anyone able to point me to the skinny on this?

Ed Form

[Daniel B.]

Hi. This is not possible for the moment. SOGo only display available mail field from LDAP in the drop-down list, and SME doesn't support several mail fields (well, you can manually add additional mail attributes with phpldapadmin for example, but the changes will be lost the next time the user is modified, or when you run post-upgrade/reboot).

A feature request is opened in sogo bugtracker to address the issue: http://sogo.nu/bugs/view.php?id=694. Basically, SOGo should let users enter any From address, regardless of LDAP content.

Regards, Daniel

[edform]

Hi. This is not possible for the moment. SOGo only display available mail field from LDAP in the drop-down list, and SME doesn't support several mail fields (well, you can manually add additional mail attributes with phpldapadmin for example, but the changes will be lost the next time the user is modified, or when you run post-upgrade/reboot).

A feature request is opened in sogo bugtracker to address the issue: http://sogo.nu/bugs/view.php?id=694. Basically, SOGo should let users enter any From address, regardless of LDAP content.

Would it be possible to add a template set to the SME scripting system that reads the virtual domain information and adds the multi-from settings into LDAP so that users automatically get a populated dropdown list which survives reboots and configuration changes? A menu in the server-manager that allows the administrator to prevent certain users from having a multi-popluated dropdown or, even better, allows them to be given 'From' addesses in a particular domain or domains would be really cool as well.

Thanks for the info, Ed Form

[Daniel B.]

Well, everything is possible, but it needs some development, and development costs time. Further more, I think it'd more flexible if this is implemented in SOGo, so that we can enter any From address.

[edform]

Well, everything is possible, but it needs some development, and development costs time. Further more, I think it'd more flexible if this is implemented in SOGo, so that we can enter any From address.

While I hear whay you say on development costs and, yet again, regret my inability to write code, I don't agree with you about the provision of facilities for users to enter their own From addresses. In the context of providing SME server with a user-friendly webmail facility, surely the system admin or the system owner should decide who gets what From address?

I'm not up to the job of developing the necessary templates to do this as part of the scripting but I should be able to write a simple script to run at boot time on my own in-house server to add the entries I want to LDAP, so I'll give that a go - I only have three domains and they will never change, nor will the user list, so it's not a big job. Thanks for the basic info on how the From addresses are populated.

Ed Form

[edform]

Hi. This is not possible for the moment. SOGo only display available mail field from LDAP in the drop-down list, and SME doesn't support several mail fields (well, you can manually add additional mail attributes with phpldapadmin for example, but the changes will be lost the next time the user is modified, or when you run post-upgrade/reboot).

After checking what you said I find that you are not correct. Using phpldapadmin to add email addresses to a user produces a populated dropdown in the 'Write' function of SOGo allowing one to choose which email address to send from. These added email addresses do survive simple reboots and post-upgrade reboots; they also survive password resets but they do not survive changes to the user details in the server manager.

For my small server where all of the users are resident in the premises, the phpldapadmin route is fine.

Ed Form