IMAP or LDAP authentication

type

The type of the authentication source. In this case '”mail”. It can also be “ldap” but this is still in expirimental stages.

name

The name of the authentication source as it will appear in a pulldown menu when there are more then one authentication sources defined.

user_manager

The type of user management you wish to use. This can be “sql”, 'passwd” en “ldap” zijn. By default “sql” is used. It can however be very useful to use “passwd”. With this option system accounts are changed when you change the password in Group-Office. This is only possible when the mailserver runs on the local machine (“localhost”) and you must allow the Apache system users to execute the command “chpasswd”. This can be done with the program “sudo”. add the following line to /etc/sudoers using the “visudo” command: apache ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/sbin/chpasswd Replace the apache username if nessecary. Also check the path of chpasswd. If this path is different then you must also change this path in “config.php”.

proto

The protocol. Can be IMAP or POP-3. IMAP is highly recommended. POP-3 is slow and doesn't offer the use of multiple e-mail folders.

domain

The domain of the e-mail addresses.

host

The hostname of the machine where the mailserver runs.

port

The port . For IMAP usually 143 and for POP-3 usually 110.

ssl

SSL mode on or off

novalidate_cert

Validate the SSL certificate yes or no. with some mailservers you must enable this feature always even if you don't use SSL.

mbroot

The mailbox root. In most cases you can leave this value empty. It could be that you must enter “INBOX” or “mail” here.

add_domain_to_username

Enable this option if you need to login with the full e-mail address at the mailserver.

create_email_account

If you want to create an e-mail account in Group-Office automatically when a user logs in the first time enable this option.

auto_check_email

Check the automatic e-mail account for new messages automatically.

groups

Add the new users to these user groups automatically.

visible_groups

Make new users automatically visible to these user groups.

modules_read

Grant new users read permissions to these modules.

modules_write

Grant new users administrator permissions to these modules.