[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aseem Rane) writes:
> I have decided to provide webmail interface for our group (~ 40
> people). Finalised on SquirrelMail.
> I am just curious about how professional webmail providers, like
> yahoo, allows users to choose their own login-id (sign-up). I think
Here is how we do it - a very very trimmed down version.
Basically this is a script which interfaces with their userdb (stored on a
db like mysql)
Also checks for certain banned words (used by password thieves who send out
mail pretending to be admins, for example) during signup.
> SquirrelMail do not offer this facility. Also is it possible to
> restrict number of user-ids created this way on the basis of IP-addr
> of the client machine? This should not create problems since we use
> static IP addresses in our office.
Ouch ouch ouch... real big issue there if you are dealing with proxies etc.
If you deal with static IPs I guess your script could update a counter in
mysql each time an IP calls it.
srs
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