newbie help

[das_ubersoldat]

Hi,

I have some issues understanding exactly how OX works. I'm planning to integrate all my external email accounts (some GMX accounts and my own domain) into OX. I don't want to host my domain but download the emails from the POP3/IMAP accounts and send them through a smarthost.

i would like to also have all these email accounts under one OX login. my issue is that i don't really understand how i need to setup the first account then.


/opt/open-xchange/sbin/createcontext -A oxadminmaster -P secret -c 1 -u oxadmin -d "Context Admin" -g Admin -s User -p secret -L defaultcontext -e oxadmin@domain?? -q 1024 --access-combination-name=all

/opt/open-xchange/sbin/createuser -c 1 -A oxadmin -P secret -u testuser -d "Test User" -g Test -s User -p secret -e what email address? --imaplogin testuser --imapserver 127.0.0.1? --smtpserver 127.0.0.1?

all of my accounts are external so i'm not sure if it should be 127 etc. for the additional email accounts i can enter login credentials for the servers but where can i do this for this main account?

or do i need to create an account for every email address?

[Martin Heiland]

Hi,

for performance reasons it's highly recommended to use a local IMAP server or IMAP cache. You could configure external accounts as well but this might be pretty slow in contrast to a local account. In addition to that, content of POP3 accounts is synchronized/copied to the primary IMAP account which will clutter your external account.

However, a example configuration would look like this:

/opt/open-xchange/sbin/createuser -c 1 -A oxadmin -P secret -u testuser -d "Test User" -g Test -s User -p your-password-at-gmx -e testuser@gmx.de --imaplogin your-login-name-at-gmx --imapserver imap.gmx.net --smtpserver mail.gmx.net

This will use the external GMX account as primary IMAP storage. Your OX users password needs to be equal to your primary IMAP mailbox' password.

Greetings

[das_ubersoldat]

ok thx! so if i just setup an fake primary imap account like test@example.org and the just add the external pop3 accounts i would avoid that right?

[Martin Heiland]

Yep, should work if the fake mailbox is working.