Changes between Version 12 and Version 13 of Howto_Config

Timestamp:

Aug 20, 2010 2:06:57 AM (3 years ago)

Author:

alec

Comment:

Add info about virtuser_* plugins

Howto_Config

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 === Configuring for Virtual Users ===
 
-Virtual users are useful for hosting providers where a single mailserver is providing email for a number of different domains.  The goal is that the user logs in to roundcube with their email login/password, and roundcube knows where to lookup their complete email address.  Two options are support, SQL lookups or a sendmail style virtuser file.
+Virtual users are useful for hosting providers where a single mailserver is providing email for a number of different domains.  The goal is that the user logs in to roundcube with their email login/password, and roundcube knows where to lookup their complete email address.  Two options are support, SQL lookups or a sendmail style virtuser file. Since 0.4 this requires enabling of appropriate plugins.
 
-In order to test if virtuser is configured correctly, log in to roundcube with a user that does not exist yet.  Compose a message, if you see the From address as user@correct_domain, then it worked.  If you see user@localhost, something is wrong.  To reset and try again, delete that user from the roundcube users and identities tables.
+In order to test if virtuser is configured correctly, log in to roundcube with a user that does not exist yet.  Compose a message, if you see the From address as user@correct_domain, then it worked.  If you see user@localhost, something is wrong.  To reset and try again, delete that user from the roundcube users table (all related records will be removed using foreign keys cascading).
 
 1) virtuser_file
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-If you are using postfix and/or some kind of hosting panel, chances are your email accounts are already stored in a SQL table. If that is the case, you want to lookup the emails with a virtuser_query.  The parts of the example query:
+If you are using postfix and/or some kind of hosting panel, chances are your email accounts are already stored in a SQL table. If that is the case, you want to lookup the emails with a virtuser_query. Virtuser_query plugin also allows to set all identity fields using the query. The parts of the example query:
 
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