webmail

[david]

how about access to our flump.net webmail via the flump website? or even a script so we and our email account users can login to their email via our own website?

you offer webmail via the control panel but its very very fiddly to access :cry:

[Kittys]

Hi David I have mailwash on my comp and this checks the mail and gives me access to it without the control panel.

[Craig]

HI David.

You can access your webmail via www.yourdomain.com/webmail/ notice the trailing slash.

This will allow you to log in and check without having to go into your control panel :)

Hope that helps..

Craig.

[Jazz]

kitty or any1 else, y dont uuse out look express, or outlook 2002 (dont have to be 2002) as that so easy to read email and form email, well thats wot i use to read my email :)

[david]

craig help!

I'm sure this may be out of your hands and really expensive to set up but other web hosts have it and i was wondering if you guys might look into doing it -maybe for an extra fee? free would be nice?

how about having the option for users of our sites to sign up for email accounts (web based only) - i.e like hotmail but we can host it ourselves. Everyone.net used to do this but now they charge obscene ammounts of money to do it.

any ideas? :)

[d.bayliss]

why not just do as craig said?

[david]

I completly understand what craig has said, what I meant was- can it be automated so that users can register for an account themselves at my domain?

[Matt]

You can get programs to do that, everyone.net used to offer a plug in, but that costs money now.
I think you would have to know to many passwords to do what you say....

[david]

oh I see :o
what kind of passwords do you mean? would it be possible on a budget (or free?)with just a few users? eg 100?

[Matt]

I assume all the data for creating pop boxes on the server is stored in a database, then exim or whatever does it's stuff. You would need the user and password to the database in order to create a new entry, and make a new mail account. With this info you could also bugger the database up totaly.

Everyone.net used to have a free plug in, but now they charge about $350 or something stupid.

[david]

I see, ahh people are so concerned about security!
But I can understand that, our site is for a charity and is unlikely to be hacked or abused by malicious people.

What if the database was secured so that only certain fields could be written - I.e new ones for the entry of a new users details for a new account? and the rest would be read only - except by the administrator of the domain in the control panel?

[Matt]

I would have thought you are already granted low level access for changing pop boxes and stuff through the cpanel, but I don't know what database is in use or anything, I'm only a lonely mod :(

[david]

never mind!!!

all I wanted to do was ofer my users webmail @mydomain no pop3 or anything just plain and simple webmail

[Matt]

Don't you really need a pop box to store the mail though?

[Russell]

Some months ago I went through a long and painful evaluation of most of the webmail packages available on the web. I've found that Squirrelmail is by far the best one I've come across - www.squirrelmail.org - but it still requires an IMAP account for each user.

There are very few webmail programs that don't require either a POP or IMAP account. One of note, that I came across was webumake email - www.webumake.com - it uses one POP account as a drop box and then sends the mail to the appropriate webumake account.

There are loads and loads of webmail packages out there which can be installed on your website - do a search on www.hotscripts.com and www.sourceforge.org for starters.