On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 06:39, Jim Hale wrote: > I know this may be a bit offbase, but I'm running my website/email server on a > RH 7.3 box. I was just wondering if someone out there has written any sort of > Web Page interface that would allow a person to sign up for, say, a webmail > account. I'm not doing this for commercial purposes, There's a user group that > would like to start using my server and I don't have the time to go in a create > user accounts on the box so that they can have mail. I'm using Horde as my > Webmail Server framework.
There are a couple of web-based mail systems that do something like that now, but I think they try to do too much with too little. This weekend I had planned on building exactly that with the KISS principal in mind. My plan is this: Write a CGI to process input from a user, accepting username, password, real name, etc... and store the data in an LDAP directory. Write a SUID app called from that CGI which accepts the username as an argument, looks it up in the LDAP directory, and creates the required maildir on the system. Document the setup of these scripts and Courier MTA to use the virtual accounts. So, for a cost of what should be less than 150 lines of Perl, I hope to have a full featured mail server which will offer virtual mail accounts with access to POP3 and IMAP (over SSL :) and any web based email app you like. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
