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Hello,

I am looking at using Vestacp to create an email server for the startup I work for.

We are looking to send out emails to authenticate new users on our site and mailing list about different aspects of the company.

Is this easy to do with vestacp? If documentation on how to set that up could be linked, that would be awesome.

Also, is there a way that I can make it so that the passwords for user email accounts for our company expire after a certain time?

Honestly what you are requesting is outside the scope of any hosting control panel.

Vestacp can be used to setup the mail servers incredibly easily, but in terms of the mailing lists and management, you really need some sort of hosted solution for that - and despite the fact that WHM Cpanel has a mailman configuration (which they claim can be used for mailing lists) - even that can't handle anything remotely near what you are talking about.

I know of a couple commercial apps that could get the job done, but that are not all that cheap. I would recommend looking into the etouch email management system as it has every feature you are talking about and more.

You can reach out privately if you would like, as I don't want to spam the forums with unrelated links.

Thank you for getting back to me!

That's what I kind of figured looked around vesta. I will have to talk with my boss to see if we have the ability to do a paid solution for this.

I know a fourm for vestacp might be the wrong place to ask this, but have you had any experience with Sentora?

Again I would worry I break forum rules if I say to much, however I can say I don't know a lot about sentora however a brief overview tells me it also does not have the features you are asking about. They do have a "distribution list" option but that seems to be more like a preconfigured list the admin can set per domain (but I am just guessing on limited research). In any event - this really isn't the place for that.

Thank you so much for your help!

raspberrybiscuit wrote:Thank you for getting back to me!

That's what I kind of figured looked around vesta. I will have to talk with my boss to see if we have the ability to do a paid solution for this.

I know a fourm for vestacp might be the wrong place to ask this, but have you had any experience with Sentora?

Oh I would stay away from the bag of stuff. If you ever heard of the issues that Zpanel had, you'd know. To put this bluntly. I wouldn't use Sentora on a development machine behind a bank door.

But I will respond to the first post:
1. Any scripted site (php, cfm, etc) that allows users to setup an account (for whatever purpose) should send an email (whether it be a php mail script or via the system's software) to verify...and/or give them an option (whether on sign up or in the email) to subscribe or not to any mailing list.
2. Password expiration should be handled by the scripts or software you choose to go with. Most "paid" and even "free" scripts have this option. You should do as much research into each item that you can, even email the developers to ask specific questions you feel are unanswered by their site.
3. If your only in need of an email server and not all the bells and whistles of a hosting solution, then based on the OS that the server is using, google the email server software provided with the OS. There are tons upon tons of guides to setting up just email services.

Thank you for replying!

I believe I have found a mail solution now that will work for us. I believe I have also found a solution for mailing lists.

I will have to look into scripts for expiring the passwords.

Again, thank you.