Re: [IMail Forum] External Databases

[Bill James]

Sam,      I ran into this also and what I found out was that I was not setting the flags in the database first. If I set them with Imail then I still could not login as the user or send them email. But if I set them in the database first, I could. After some playing around to see what the number would be I came up with 130. That gives the user web access (http://site.com:8383). How I discovered the correct flag for the parameters was I created users in the user admin in Imail then looked at the database for the flags that were set. Iam using an online web site to signup users and am using hidden tags for the flags and mail message sizes. I would give the address to you but I do not have it yet on a production machine. I am testing and tweaking the setup internally. I am trying to get the database to suggest a userid if the one they chose is already in use.      Good luck and let me know how it works for you.       Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: Samuel Miller To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 12:58 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] External Databases I have been a subscriber to this forum for two days now, and have seen some comments in regards to external databases. I posted some messages about login errors that were due to the way I set up the external database. Since I can deduce that external databases due work can someone tell me if there is anything special that I might have overlooked in the setup process. I created a blank database and an ODBC datasource. I can connect to the database and create user accounts using the IMAIL administrator, I can add records manually to the database and the users will then show up in the User Administrator. I can't send mail to them though or use web messaging to login. I have successfully implemented the Imail database option, but would like to use the external option.   Thanks in advance   Sam