Internet Services from KKoncepts

Couriersite is a web program we've written which is designed to allow relatively easy administration of Courier email servers. It is also designed to allow others to administer different parts of the email system, thereby making less work for the overworked and under paid email administrator! To that end, it provides four programs:

• Siteadmin - which allows someone to administer the entire email server (all services, users, mailing lists, etc.).
• Domainadmin - which allows someone to administer a single email domain (users and mailinglists).
• Listadmin - which allows someone to administer a single mailing list.
• Useradmin - which allows someone to administer a single email user.

The installer sets up the complete courier email suite (if it's not already installed) as well as spamassassin and clamav. So you get all of courier as well as AV and spam scanning working "out-of-the-box". If you enable webdav in your
web server, it also allows users to upload and share their calendars with other email users in their email domain (all email users access calendars using their own email usernames and passwords) or with anyone using a generic username and
password.

The site administrator has complete control over what runs and what doesn't, but then they can delegate administration of domains and mailinglists to others if they choose. Moreover, users can log into the Useradmin program and administer their own email address including changing their password, setting forwarding addresses, spam controls (if enabled), calendar sharing (if enabled), and creating a vacation/auto reply (with an optional automatic stop date).

The real point of the program is to get others to do my work for me, laziness being a chief virtue of most IT professionals! :-)

You can see what it looks like at our mockup. It's not a demo in that you can't change anything, but you can see what it looks like and what you can do.

The tar ball of the files (and an installation script) can be found at www.kkoncepts.net/courier/files.

Installation instructions are available in the tar ball or can be read on-line at www.kkoncepts.net/courier/readme. DEFINITELY read this before you install. There's some "caveats" you need to know before you push the "INSTALL" button - like the installer thinks that you are running on a clean Debian system!

Many of the gory details (which you definitely should read) can be found www.kkoncepts.net/courier/details.

I'm a systems administrator, not a programmer, so if you see problems, bugs, security issues, etc., please let me know. I'm sure that someone more gifted than I could write this much "better". But it scratches where I itch and makes my life easier. So hopefully it can do the same for others.