I apologize for mangling Mr. Cesta's given name and I also wanted to submit one caveat when using program aliases to remotely administer IMail: Use obscure names for the program aliases. I typed [EMAIL PROTECTED] as an example because I wanted to clearly show its function. However, anybody in the world could send e-mail to this easily-guessed address (assuming they know the syntax for the parameters) and thus add new users on your host. So please raise the fog index when choosing names for program aliases :)
Guy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Isabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 2:30 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Automated Remote Control of Imail > Jogn Cesta wrote: > > > Use the tools to create your own automation. It's more flexible that > > way versus a predeveloped package that you may not have source code > > for and then you won't be able to modify it. > > I fully agree. What I did was to create several program aliases to allow me > to add users, aliases, domains, etc. These program aliases are e-mail > addresses which, upon receiving a message with the appropriate parameters, > call the proper command-line utility (e.g., adduser.exe, addalias.exe, > adddomain.exe). So, I can send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] passing > the parameters in the body of the message and this program alias will invoke > adduser.exe and do the job. All this is covered in the IMail User Guide and > is easy to set up. > > Guy > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
