Hello,

I wanted to find out if there were any scripts that allowed me to let my users sign up for their own email accounts?

I have my own server... but I just don't know what to use to accomplish this task.

Hmm, there are many scripts on HS, try searching ...

That's my problem.... I don't know what to look for.

I'm very new at this.

Own email account?
meaning @yoursite.com?
hmm you can do that? don't you need a host or something, and a email server or something?

Yes I want users to have Therename@mysite.com

I had someone to install my mail server... now I just have to find out how to put it to use by getting a script that allows members to sign up for an email address.

Ill search and see if i could find some, i think most of them are going to be pay :(

Well what i've found out is this. There is IMail Server, and this has a command line tool to create user accounts. Example :

: adduser -u myusername -h mydomain -p mypassword

Of course this is on windows. I don't know if this really works at all because i still have to do this myself but in theory you could execute this command line tool from php to create user accounts. You can keep a db to store already used usernames and before you execute this tool you check if the username already exists in the db. If it doesn't it adds it to the db and executes the command line tool.

This is the theory. When i'll do it, i'll post back.

This one isnt free, its in PHP and Mysql. It is very good and worth a look at.

http://www.hivemail.com

b1g.info but no support if you dont know german :(
Try inter7.com

the simplest to offer your visitors email is to sign up free email providers like everyone.net which allows u to offer free email to your visitors.

i don't think u can make a script like this easily.

Anything but everyone.net!
At one point I counted 6 popups at the bottom of my screen just after logging in. That kinda bombardment will not only drive people from your email service, but probably from your main site as well..

Isaac also has had bad experiences with everyone.net and I'd have to say that the service doesn't get Isaac's precious recommendation, which is important.
Everyone.net isn't the way to go.

Oh how important it is! :p
Just go with http://www.hivemail.com :)

You could also try WWWMessenger from World Wide Creations (http://www.worldwidecreations.com/messenger5.htm)

The script costs $90 but it is a good script with decent support, and the developers are always making improvements.

I have my webmail site set up here:
myBemidji.com email (http://www.mybemidji.com/messenger)
It did require quite a bit of customization to make it pretty, as the developers don't have that much style sense :rolleyes: but it works great. The newest version has support for multiple themes (user selected), a built in calendar, and a lots of other features.

dude your one step ahead of me, i'm still looking for a good mail server

can you post which one you have and where to get it?

I setup a little mail system. I never used it though. I found this script which allows Cpanel users to allow easy POP3 creation. After that I used a mail reader script to simply access the POP3. You can admin through Cpanel and add ads to e-mails easily but I can't remember how I did it. Sorry but it was a while ago.

Ok here's your solution.

First of all install XMail. It's both in unix version as well as a windows version. It's the best mail server around, fastest around, extremly stable and best of all it's free and opensource and has a very good userbase community. There are free php scripts to add users to domains etc.

The url for xmail is : http://www.xmailserver.org
The url for the php script is : http://sourceforge.net/projects/visualxmail/
There are others but this is the best one i've found. Others tend to have a timeout bug.

When you have that installed and configured correctly get uebmiao which is also a free php pop3 e-mail client. It's extremly stable and has a huge amount of features/3rd party addons. Configure it for your domain only and all you have to do is give the users the URL and they login normally using their login and password. Their login name will be the username part of the e-mail.

Example : login name = damian in the address damian@mydomain.com

The url for uebmiao is : http://www.cyber.nu/forum/index.php?act=Downloads&CODE=02&id=11
This is an edited version of the latest stable release. Don't worry if it's called beta, it's very stable.

Use this solution and you won't be sorry. It's how i'm doing mine, besides it's free :)

If you need any help ask !

Damian

Just to add....

Check UebiMaiu and SquirelMail ... quite popular... Check in SourceForge.

Also, check SocketMail (http://www.socketmail.com) -- neat and cool -- not free though but lots of features and they provide lifetime updates.

I was jus trying hte latest version of squirrelMail..but it can't seem to be connecting to the IMAP or something port (143 or so) i fwded it, but its still not working. Any clue?