----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 2:26
PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Offering free
email at Motorcross
The
new user signup is pretty trivial if you have worked with ASP before(if not I
suggest you visit www.activeserverpages.com).
We
use an external MS Access database to store all of our user info. When a
user hits our sign up page....we naturally ask them a few questions to get the
data we need to make the user account. Once we have this info......we
have the form submit to an ASP script which adds a record to the IMail
database with the pertinent info.
We
have a username and password box on our home page to make the login process
one step shorter. We also use a VERY simple ASP script to process this
as well. Below is a flowchart(of sorts) as to how we use a form besides
the IMail form.
1.
User fills out the username and password box we provide
2.
We check our database to make sure he/she exists and verify their
Password
3.
Show any error messages if they occur
4.
If it's a valid user we redirect to an ASP version of the IMail login form
that uses hidden form inputs and the data values they provided in step 1, and
we use a Javascript to submit the form(using an OnLoad
event)
5.
User arrives at their inbox.
Sounds pretty simple right?
;-)
As
far as making IMail work in a frame....just make a frameset and load in the
IMail login form(www.yourserver.com:8383). Once
it's in a frame.....it'll stay in there unless you specify a different
target. We also add in a few javascripts on a few pages to ensure that
they can not be loaded outside of the frameset.
Any
more questions....just drop me a note ;-)
Scott
Hi Scott,
and how did you make Imail works in frame???
Can you show me how the process and method from signing up new user, login
and inbox? What I want to do is from our main homepage, which is
not a frame, I will have a link <click here to check email> and it
will take them straight to the inbox/main section without requiring them to
login (since I already did the authentication when the user goes to our main
homepage).
thanks in advance,
***************************************
Dan Nguyen from
Hotbiz.com,
Your Online
Office.
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Brian,
Use an ASP Script and an Access Database to
process account creation. We use it on our site and have had no
problems at all.
Hello:
I am hosting free email using Imail 5.0. I need a way for
the users to create their own accounts. For example: you
fill out a form providing your name , password and all relevant
info. Then you click "submit" and I pass that information to Imail
in order to create the account.
Any ideas?
Sincerely,
Brian Dunnam
WMA Executive
Head Quarters
Atlanta, Georgia
