Webmail

[dclamp]

2 questions, same topic.

1) How would i have it do that php could create a mail account on my server?

2) How would i get the mail from email accounts? Like Squirrel Mail.

[GhettoT]

Are you running off of your own server or off of a server host (ie. Globat, Go Daddy!, etc...)?

[dclamp]

i have a virtual dedicated server. http://dimehost.com i think

[GhettoT]

Well, i would check with dimehost first and see if they offer some sort of webmail package. Some host have one-click install software and most have webmail/e-mail packages already setup for their users.

[dclamp]

Well i have full cPanel access. I am running a myspace type site and i want to have a email system for my users.

[GhettoT]

Oh ok! Its not like a webmaster@/////.com i would try to do some sort of Private messaging system instead of a whole e-mail system. cause on your site you require e-mail to register already right?

[dclamp]

hmm. What we want, is for the member to have the choice of signing up for a Mail Services (like hotmail, yahoo, gmail). I need the php script to create the email account. Then i need script that will get the user's mail, and allow them to send mail.

Yes, they do have an email that they sign up with.

the email format we want is [email protected] or [email protected]

[GhettoT]

Oh. Hmmm... I'm not really sure how you would get something like this, as i have never really needed anything if the such... Maybe you should try asking at http://www.weberforums.com/ these are extremely smart webmasters! sorry i couldn't help more.

[dclamp]

thanks, i submited a post there.

[penagate]

This depends on the mail server software that your host is running. You should ask them, not anyone else.

[dclamp]

This depends on the mail server software that your host is running. You should ask them, not anyone else.

We have cPanel and it comes with Squirrel Mail, and Horde. Would it work if i just like edited them?

[kows]

you probably can't edit those, because you won't have access to the http "mail" subdomains that they're installed on, most likely. you should be submitting a ticket to the tech support for your hosting company and asking them how you can go about implementing your own custom mailing system, or if they will even let you.

[dclamp]

thanks for coming to the rescue kows!

[CornedBee]

Neither cPanel nor SquirrelMail nor Horde are mail servers. Mail servers are postfix or qmail, exim or dovecot, depending on what part of the service you want. Many of them can be set up to automatically adopt any system user. That's probably not a good idea in your case. Most of them also provide some way to get user info from a database or LDAP server. Those would be good options, because they don't require you to get a system elevation from the PHP scripts.

[dclamp]

I know that horde and squirrel mail are not mail servers. They get the mail from the mail server. Why do you say that this is a bad idea?

[CornedBee]

What I'm saying is a bad idea is to set up your mail servers to use Linux system users. It would require giving each registered user a system user.