It would be great to have a built-in working horde, squirrelmail or roundcube so we can use email easily on a BOA server.

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josevitalsouto
Primary language Portuguese, Brazil
Location RN
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Yeah! managing an email server would be amazing for the system.

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omega8cc commented
Project: Octopus » Barracuda
Component: Code » Miscellaneous
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

You can still install any extra service you wish, modify default firewall settings and add any PHP app you need, using Chive config as an example, but we don't plan to extend BOA in this direction. We don't plan to turn BOA into some Virtualmin clone.

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omega8cc commented

If anyone is curious why not - it would be against the main goal of BOA - a high performance system for Drupal hosting. E-mail hosting can easily eat 99% of your VPS/server power, it is a nightmare to maintain and support, so you should really outsource it and use free (or paid) services from Gandi.net or Google Apps etc. And the same for DNS (Gandi.net does this really well).

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metroecho commented
Version: » 6.x-2.x-dev
Issue summary: View changes

Any one know if Drupal and Roundcube can use the same database?
If so would it not just be a matter of using Roundcube then reading/feeding the information through Drupal?
Once a node is created then it can be managed using Drupal. Mailhandler can sort of do this, it can't create mail in Drupal that would end up on the Roundcube database.

As a business application having email integrate with Drupal is a plus.