No, that's not true it can be done. HPH does it now.
When you order a website your Imail email accounts is automatically
configured with an admin email account with the password that you
select when you sign up for service.
Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 4:36 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Auto-setup of domains
> Yes, but there still is no way to automate giving your customer/client
> (whomever) a "host administrator" account so they can maintain their own
> individual domain email accounts. I don't want to get a phone call every
> time they want to setup a new email address. I'd rather run a single
setup
> script that:
>
> 1) Creates a new domain
> 2) Apply a "template" of default/common settings to the domain
> 3) Creates a host administrator account (or not)
> 4) Creates users and/or aliases (or not)
>
> Blah blah blah.
>
> We were planning on writing one of these but I found out that iMail
doesn't
> office an API for us to talk to. I don't want to call their cgi scripts
> because I don't have control over what they do and they offer limited
> functionality.
>
> Please IPSWITCH provide this API/COM to us... Please! Seattle Labs does!
Be
> open!
>
> If ANYONE else has a viable solution, please let us all know about it.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Hsiang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 3:51 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Auto-setup of domains
>
>
> adddomain.exe and adduser.exe is the key to solve your problem.
> and I use ASPexec From www.serverobjects.com to executes those exe.
>
> It's great solution. instead just send an email to the server, just call a
> webpage. for security issue, that page better do a query from a database
to
> determine which domain to add and which user to add to what domain.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eric Langley
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 10:55 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Auto-setup of domains
>
>
> half price hosting has developed a completely automated account creation
> system,
> including virtual www domain and imail account.
>
> However I doubt that they would be willing to tell you much about how they
> accomplish this!
>
> Eric Langley
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jeff Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 9:27 AM
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Auto-setup of domains
>
>
> > I suspect if you setup an alias that executed a program, then you could
> > accomplish this.
> >
> > You'd have to setup some parsable "format" for what the program would do
> > (including look for a password in the email to authenticate the action).
> > We'll be writing a tool that do this for our own purposes soon.
> >
> > Has anyone else accomplished this already so we all could benefit from
it?
> >
> > --Jeff Owens
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Deliduka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 1:14 PM
> > To: Imail Support List
> > Subject: [IMail Forum] Auto-setup of domains
> >
> >
> > I sent an e-mail earlier about an idea I had for setting up domains
> > automatically by sending mail to the server.
> >
> > What other things do some of y'all do to setup domains. We're expecting
to
> > be hosting many clients here and to login to the server is a
> time-consuming
> > thing.
> >
> > Our domains will be hosted with an external database. I just want some
> sort
> > of script to run on the server or something. Any help would be
> appreciated.
> > --
> >
> > Thomas Deliduka
> > IT Manager
> > -------------------------
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> >
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