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10-09-2002, 05:12 AM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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Can I create web base email account just like Hotmail?
Just say if I have a hosting account, can I create a web-base email account just like hotmail or yahoo, and people can just register their email accounts and use them?
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10-09-2002, 05:27 AM #2Junior Guru Wannabe
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yes, you can.
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10-09-2002, 05:32 AM #3Junior Guru Wannabe
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can you explain it more to me please. Thank you
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10-09-2002, 05:36 AM #4Web Hosting Guru
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10-09-2002, 08:51 AM #5Junior Guru Wannabe
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The theory behind this is actually simple.
Basically, you just have to install a script/ software to run on your host account. The script can be written in any server-side scripting language or other programming language (Perl, PHP, ASP, Java, C/C++, etc).
Hotmail for instant, is written in Perl, running on Linux (it's labeled as MSN funny huh?). The squirrelmail recommended by davet is written in PHP.
Having that said, it's not hard to install a webmail service, but how you configure and the measures taken to avoid security breach are more of concern, if you want to provide a webmail service to public. Although at this point many don't foresee any good by offering this free webmail service anymore, unless for marketing purposes which may or may not generate too much profits. People tend to install webmail for their internal usage (such as LAN, be it in a campus, office, an organization, ...)
If you need more technical opinion on how to install and configure the webmail, then you should approach somebody who has experience to do it for you. Or else you are ready to face a steeper learning curve ahead, if you want to do it yourself. But it certainly worths lots more than the effort you've put in.Chris Tee
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10-09-2002, 09:10 AM #6WHT Addict
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Gossamer-Mail is another option for you. I use this on a site now and it works great.
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10-09-2002, 03:08 PM #7Junior Guru Wannabe
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Originally posted by kyun
The theory behind this is actually simple.
Hotmail for instant, is written in Perl, running on Linux (it's labeled as MSN funny huh?). The squirrelmail recommended by davet is written in PHP.
worths lots more than the effort you've put in.
In it's simplest, a web based e-mail program though, is not as cimplex as it sounds. All you need is a way to read e-mail from a pop account, and send it through either SMTP or other means. Add a database of users, and you're good to go.
If you are on a windows server, Jmail does almost everything you need. You just need to write a front end.http://evilpuppy.com
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