OpenCms Days 2013 - A mail hosting service using OpenCms
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ServerMX.com is a professional mail hosting service launched in 2002, utilizing OpenCMS for e-commerce solutions, featuring real-time provisioning and multi-domain management. The architecture includes support for various email protocols and a payment gateway integrated with PayPal, offering extensive user and content management capabilities. The project focuses on continuous evolution, with plans to expand language support and additional functionalities such as a domain name registrar.
OpenCms Days 2013 - A mail hosting service using OpenCms
- 1. A mail hosting service using OpenCms Antonio Cordeddu
- 2. • Coranto presentation • Servermx.com project overview • Software architecture • The mail servers • Payment gateway • The orders management • The users management • The content management • Alkacon OAMP customization • Multilanguage Overview
- 3. • Active since 2002 • Involved in web site analysis and development • Specialized in CMS tools • We started using OpenCms since 2005 • Main OpenCms projects: • Agriturismo Ichnos • Translation of OpenCms workplace in Italian • Web site of big industry food • Last but not least... servermx.com Coranto presentation
- 5. Servermx.com is a professional mail hosting service for businesses looking for a reliable email solution featuring Webmail, POP, IMAP and SMTP with spam protection and multiple domains management. servermx.com - what it is
- 6. Using OpenCms to manage an e-commerce site with reserved area and real time provisioning to mail system servermx.com – the challenge
- 7. servermx.com - home page
- 8. servermx.com - home page product detail
- 9. • Multi domain • IMAP, POP • SMTP • Anti spam • Web integrated reserved area admin • Web integrated reserved area for each mailbox user • Multi language servermx panel • Catch all, alias, forward, autoresponder servermx.com – main features
- 10. servermx.com – strength points 1) Multi domain without additional costs 2) Reserved area at mailbox user level 3) Multi-language in reserved area 4) Real time provisioning
- 11. servermx.com - software architecture
- 12. servermx.com - software info 1) OpenCms version 8.5.2 2) Debian Linux 3) Apache 4) Tomcat version 7.x 5) MySql version 5 6) Exim (mail transfer agent) 7) Dovecot (IMAP POP server) 8) Squirrell (web client) 9) Round Cube (web client)
- 14. servermx.com – mail servers
- 15. servermx.com – main scenario
- 16. servermx.com - incoming mail scenario
- 17. servermx.com – reading mail scenario
- 18. servermx.com – outgoing mail scenario
- 19. servermx.com – email database
- 21. servermx.com – e-commerce ● Paypal ● Standard API ExpressCheckout ● Java package ● Not recurrent payment ● For first payment ● For renew payment
- 22. servermx.com – payment workflow
- 23. servermx.com – payment gateway details At the end of the payment process, the servermx system has performed the following activities: ● Creation of the user ● Setting of the mail hosting product (status active) ● Sending welcome email ● Automatic login ● User can start to use the product since the provisioning is performed in real time
- 28. servermx.com – use cases
- 29. servermx.com – organizational units
- 30. servermx.com – user attributes
- 31. servermx.com – subscribed user
- 32. servermx.com – email user
- 33. servermx.com – content management The contents of the public area are managed, unsurprisingly, with OpenCms
- 34. servermx.com – public content management
- 35. servermx.com – batch tasks ● Daily batch checks the status of the mail hosting product ● It warnings when the user product is going to expire ● It closes the expired product and their mailboxes ● Hourly batch that creates invoices in pdf format using Apache™ FOP (Formatting Objects Processor)
- 36. servermx.com – Alkacon OAMP customization We use: ● Alkacon OAMP Webform ● Alkacon OAMP Webuser registration After studying source code of these OpenCms Alkacon modules we were able to implements the requirements of the project
- 37. servermx.com – Alkacon OAMP customization action class We use action class ● New mailbox user ● Edit mailbox user ● Password forgot ● Change password To get this you have to implement the interface: I_CmsWebformActionHandler (method afterWebformAction)
- 38. servermx.com – Alkacon OAMP customization custom field We have custom fields to manage custom validation: ● Alias ● Password ● TextFieldUsername To get this you have to do the following steps: ● Set the file opencmsdir/WEB- INF/classes/custom_form_field.properties ● Modify the xsd schema (inputfield.xsd) ● Update the template file (StringTemplate format)
- 39. servermx.com – multi-language Both the public and private area are multi-language. Is usual to find multi-language sites. But you can't easy find multi-language in the private area. The users are OpenCms users so it's not been too difficult to manage the multi language in the private area.
- 40. servermx.com – final resume
- 41. servermx.com – final thoughts The challenge was won The website is online from August 2013 You can use OpenCms not only for content management due to ● OpenCms flexibility ● OpenCms reliability I like OpenCms!
- 42. servermx.com – the evolution of the project What are we going to develop: ● Other languages: Spanish, … ● Shared collaboration/Calendar ● Become a domain name registrar (.com, .net, .it) ● Extend payment with recurring payment
- 44. servermx.com Thanks for your attention