[Kolab-devel] Whats bad with Webmin?

Bernhard Reiter bernhard at intevation.de
Wed Feb 25 18:38:17 CET 2004


On Tuesday 24 February 2004 17:15, Stephan Buys wrote:
> Just wondering if it would be worthwhile investigating Webmin for the
> management of the Kolab server? I have never liked/used webmin but it seems
> to be recurring theme with my clients.
>
> Users like webmin because they can manage Postfix mail queues, etc. through
> it.
>
> It should also in theory be easy to extend Webmin to include plugins for
> Kolab-specific tasks.
>
> Seeing that one of Kolab's design were that it "not re-invent the wheel",
> ie. use proven components like Postfix, OpenLDAP, etc., maybe it makes
> sense to use something like Webmin for administration of the server?

I don't know if webmin is a good choice.
Note that we had a very short timeframe in "kroupware".
We needed to get something done in a couple of weeks
so there was not much time to investigate all possible components.
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