django-cyradm

[Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen]

On 12.12.2019 21.26, Niels Dettenbach wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 12. Dezember 2019, 21:06:46 CET schrieb Jesper Schmitz
> Mouridsen via Info-cyrus:
>> It has self service support. The system has 3 roles "admin","domain
>> admin" and "account user".
>>
>> If you are interested take a look at
> sounds very interesting - i planned to write a similiar open source product
> (after the very flexible web-cyradm was very outdated) - but with exim /
> pam_mysql (should be similiar) and reserved some spare time over christmas
> and january for it...
>
> After planning with django years ago, my current plan was to use flask or
> similiar more light, because installation of django (compared to the old LAMP
> based web-cyradm) is more difficult for many users / impossible in some typical
> mass hosting environments and easier to maintain in regards of security over
> longer timespan (django typically needs security updates several times a year
> from what i experienced with it in other projects). And with flask it is (at
> least by my intention so far...) more easy to use it on i.e. embedded
> hardware or "small email servers" with a DevOps like software / "firmware"
> management.
>
> I very like the very intelligent (because it allows very flexible email configs
> as MTA integrations) database design of web_cyradm. While i've not found a
> way to easily "reuse" that existing database structure (or "rebuilt" it with
> the django DB subsystem) in flask is has to be done by hand - so "no prob" at
> this edge for me.
>
> But will definitely check it - and (if interested) contribute (where it may
> makes sense). it may possibly still is a nice base or working solution for
> what i'm looking for (saving me time to write something complete byself) and
> if flask or so is still an option, the similiar concept should allow to
> "reuse" at least the more fiddely python code from a django project.
>
> is there any public "main" repo of the project?
https://github.com/jsm222/django-cyradm/
>
> many thanks for your time and posting,
>
>
>
> niels.