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6. Once operationnal

6.1 How to add POP users

Once a virtual email domain is working, you still have to add POP users to it. There is a menu entry in the User accounts menu called Virtual POP accounts (mail only) . It allows you to pick a virtual domain and add or edit new accounts to it.

6.2 Co-administrator

For each virtual email domain, there is a new privilege added to linuxconf. You can grant this privilege to any normal user. He will be allowed to manage the user list (POP users only) of the virtual domain. This is fully operationnal using the html interface also.

6.3 How does a user may change his password

One problem with POP only users (and also PPP users) is that they don't have access to any shell account from which they can easily changed their own password.

Linuxconf provides a neat solution to this problem. This is only available with the html interface. And it fully support virtual email domain. If you point your browser to the following URL

http://your_server:98/htmlmod:userpass:

you will access a simple screen allowing anyone to change its own password. "your_server" may be anyone of the virtual POP server or the normal name of your server. Linuxconf will manage the proper password file based on the IP number used to reach it.

It is a good idea to hide this URL in one of the information page of your server (it is a little bit odd to type).


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