Semi-unofficial ISPMan Documentation

Last update April 26, 2004 Send suggestions to Tony Wasson "wasson at azxws dot com"

This is documentation I compiled while installing ISPMan. I hope this is of use to you. For more information go to the source http://www.ispman.org

This information is all published on the ispman website under http://www.ispman.org/docs/contrib, this is just a mirror.

ISPMan Handbook

This handbook is about 30% done. It basically includes the installation steps plus migration tips. You can get the most "complete" experience by grabbing this doc and the CLI doc. Contributions are very welcome!
In 3 formats: PDF HTML SXW Updated: Mar 10, 2004

Draft of ISPMan CLI Documentation

Workable guide for using the CLI with ISPMan. Needs 3 piece of info to be complete.
In 3 formats: PDF HTML SXW Updated: Feb 9, 2004

ISPMan online help

This is available via "cvs update -dP" in version 1.0, 1.1 and HEAD. These files add functionality to the 'Help' button at the top right.

In tar.gz format: tar.gz 232k Or Browse Online Updated: Sep 19, 2003

ISPMan on Debian 3.0 Full Install Guide

NOTE:This is a little dated. The Cyrus steps miss a repository, and I don't feel like writing everything twice. Please see the handbook for the most up to date information. This document explains how to install ISPMan to manage virtual domain hosting on a Debian 3.0 GNU/Linux server. This includes the steps to setup Perdition too. This is reformatted and includes several spelling corrections and a backport for pureftpd.
In 3 formats: PDF HTML SXW Updated: January 19, 2004

Using Perdition with ISPMan

Here's a guide to using Perdition with ISPMan. This lets your customers use their email address as their username. This is *THE* recommended way to setup ISPMan!
Updated January 14, 2004

Using amavisd-new with ISPMan

Here's a howto about using amavisd-new with ISPMan. This lets you use easily handle spam tagging and virus filtering. I have this running against a smallish site - 30,000 mails a week and it works well.
UPDATE: I've now tagged 10,000 spams sent to my email account, but it looks like the spammers are getting smarter. More junk is getting past SpamAssassin 2.61 with a 6.2 sensitivity.

Using Analog with ISPMan

Here's some notes about using Analog with ISPMan. The standard method of doing this in ISPMan is to use webalizer and the command ispman.makelogs. I prefer analog, and found a way to do it. This is based on the instructions provided by Wil Cooley at http://nakedape.cc/wiki/index.cgi/IspManLogStats.

Assorted Cyrus Administration Notes

Here's a few hard earned tricks for managing cyrus. Nothing you can't find with a bit of googling and digging.

Turba Virtual Domain Hack

By request, this little tip is back. Once you have setup your LDAP directory for multiple addressbooks, you can patch Turba (part of horde) like this and allow virtual domain customers to store and access their addresses in LDAP. This was written by Jeremy Buchman.