[webmin-devel] Virtualmin and mail server support...

[John G. <gr...@ag...>]

I just started using virtualmin, for the most part I really like it.  I
particularly like the plugin support.  I was able to write a plugin for
a few misc things we need when a virtual server is created quite easily.
(I'd post it, but I doubt its useful to anybody but me).

One of the issues I ran into is that we use exim.  Truth by told I don't
really need virtualmin to do much here, but manage some alias file
entries.  But I had to hack into things to get that going.  I hacked the
create_virtuser and its associates to call down the plugins so they
could manage my exim aliases entries.  That worked quite nicely.  Fairly
minimum changes to the  virtualmin code, but it got the info I needed
down to my own code. (btw, virtualmin believes I'm running postfix).

This all got me thinking about cleaner ways to handle the mail server
support.  Something like the plugin model, where support for different
smtp servers is done with a plugin per smtp server (or several in the
case of qmail).  Obviously a particular install would only want to use
one plugin for that matches its mail server.  This would have a couple
of nice upsides.  One the code would be cleaner (each module would only
have code for one smtp model).  And it makes it easier to add smtp
servers (in my case a highly non-standard exim configuration).  Is the
mail server support just to woven in to easily pull this off?

Is there any plans for anything like this? I sincerely doubt the I'm the
first to think of it.

Any plans to support exim?  I suppose one stumbling block is defining
exactly what a standard exim config is?

Thanks,
John

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