Linux System Administration

Setting Up a Server and Users with ISPConfig

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User, email, home, and public web directories

Every user of a domain under ISPConfig has his own home directory under the folder

users. If FTP access is allowed for a domain, users are placed in their home directories

when they log in via FTP. Every home directory also contains a folder called web that

a user can access by visiting a URL like http://www.centralsoft.org/~

user or http://

www.centralsoft.org/users/

user.

Figure 4-17 shows the structure of the home directory for the user we created for

centralsoft.org.

Email Client Configuration

At this point, you should understand the basics of setting up a web site, creating a

user, and handling mail. But you will probably have to help your users configure

their email clients, specifying the outgoing and incoming mail servers. On our sys-

tem, ISPConfig uses server1.centralsoft.org as both the outgoing SMTP server and the

incoming POP3/IMAP server.

With most modern email clients, you have the option of choosing Transport Layer

Security (TLS). Select TLS when possible when configuring the outgoing server.

Because most email clients use their ISP’s outgoing server for SMTP, you can select

TLS if your ISP uses it. In the vast majority of cases, your user ID and password will

travel over your ISP’s lines in clear text.

For receiving mail, set up the incoming server (we used server1.centralsoft.org), and

select ...