I need to write a custom PHP admin script to manage my dbmail users and mailboxes.
I need to be able to: - add/change/delete a user (setting password, aliases, etc), creating 5 pre-defined mailboxes - get a list of messages in a user’s mailbox - get a specific message from any user’s mailbox - set flags on a specific message in any user’s mailbox (probably only SEEN flag, but maybe others) - move selected messages to the user’s trash mailbox - delete selected messages from any user mailbox - copy a message from one users mailbox into another users mailbox, changing the To: and Reply-To: headers My question is: What interface should I use for the above? Seems to me that operating directly on the users would best be done directly in the dbmail database. I would prefer to use IMAP for message access, but maybe direct manipulation of the db might be better? The problem with IMAP is I would have to give my admin user ACLs to every mailbox in the database. That might be a lot of ACLs. Is there a way to configure to give an admin user full access through IMAP while restricting this superadmin access to my PHP script on my admin server (not directly connected to the internet)? I could also use dbmail-deliver to copy messages into specific user mailboxes. I am, so far, unable to get dbmail-httpd running, but this would give me some direct access to other users’ mailboxes without having to set up ACLs, but I think the interface might be too limited to write a complete custom admin script. So, any opinions on which direction I should go? MySQL direct, IMAP, dbmail-deliver, HTTP, or other interfaces _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list DBmail@dbmail.org http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
