Servermx.com is a professional mail hosting service for businesses looking for a reliable email solution featuring Webmail, POP3, IMAP and SMTP with spam protection and multiple domains management. In this session Antonio will explain how Servermx.com was created using OpenCms 8.5.2 in combination with a mail system and a payment gateway. The user management of mail administrators and mailbox users is done with OpenCms users, using different Organizational units. The contents of the public area are also managed by OpenCms while data orders are recorded on external tables. Users such mail administrators and mailbox users have a web interface in a private area through which to perform provisioning in real time. The Alkacon OAMP Webform and Webuser Registration modules have been used, with some customizations, to implement the project requirements. Finally, both the public area and the reserved area are available in different languages.

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

4. SERVERMX.COM
OVERVIEW

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)

13. THE MAIL SERVER
COMPONENT

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

20. THE PAYMENT GATEWAY
COMPONENT

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

24. THE ORDER COMPONENT

25. servermx.com – order
management

26. THE OPENCMS
COMPONENT

27. servermx.com – actors

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

43. servermx.com
QUESTIONS?

44. servermx.com
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