Category: Systems management

As a follow-up to my posts on HTTP authentication / Single Sign-On (SSO) with DokuWiki and New DokuWiki plugin authhttp, I have now released my second auth plugin for DokuWiki called authsplit.

As a followup to my last blog post, HTTP authentication / Single Sign-On (SSO) with DokuWiki, I have written a new auth plugin für DokuWiki called authhttp. All the information is on the plugin’s page. I will eventually also write an authsplit plugin, if I come around to it.

Last year, after a comparison of Wikis to find a solution for the most fundamental of all IT problems (documentation), ultimately DokuWiki beat FosWiki due to its ease. All the time, however, I didn’t come around yet to properly integrate DokuWiki with my desired setup.

Switching to Dovecot as IMAP server I re-evaluate the possibility of exposing centralized, server-side mail server actions, such as sorting mails into folders, sending Vacation messages etc., to the user in a user-friendly, integrated way. There already was a plugin for the Squirrelmail web mail interface, called Axelsieve. Axelsieve actually exposes Sieve in a quite… Continue reading Evolution of a mailsystem: exposing Sieve in a user-friendly way

So I decided to go with Dovecot instead of Cyrus imapd for my new mail server. I followed the instructions in the Dovecot Wiki, but keep getting errors if I file a test message using mail -s test pief@mail.bs3.hollants.com (I highlighted the relevant parts):

There are many ways to set up a PXE-Installserver, but if you give it a bit of thought you can come up with some quite nifty ideas. So without further ado here is a description of my setup.