Automatic Email Accounts Creation

simonbres

I would like to offer my clients free email accounts, where can I find some php code that I can use so that people can sign up for their_name@my_domain.com without me having to manually add them through Cpanel or something? Any comments would be very appreciated.
~Simon

nootropil

I have the same problem.
If You get back more than few posts (I think it waz with date 12-05 titled "How to create mailbox" or somethin like that) You will read my question and two answers.
It seems that it is possible to do with OS powers and LDAP(I suppose) database where You can for example keep passwords.

Till now dont know how to do that. And have lots of questions.
But anyway is it not this strange that there is no simple explanation of this very popular activity like creating free accounts?
You are using imap functions?

ereptur

I don't know how to use it, but I know that PHP has a PAM module that can be loaded. For Linux systems, couldn't this be used to create accounts?

nootropil

Sorry but those posts were in newbies category. I went there and these are the answers for my question about creating accounts:
First:

Hi there, it depends entirely on what mail server you're running, >and how it creates mailboxes. Either way you'll probably have to >use the system() function to run an external program, (ie, the >adduser script in linux).

Second:

Hi,

we recently had a php project with imap support. I hope I'm >right with the following information.

You should be able to create a new mailbox with >imap_createmailbox. But you need to connect to the server with
a user that has admin privileges on that imap server in order to >create new mailboxes for new users. If you e.g. want to create >a new mailbox for user test you should be able to do that with

imap($stream,"user.test");

In some cases this must be

imap($stream,"user/test");

if the imap server supports usernames with dots like

imap($stream,"user/t.est");

which is configurable e.g. in cyrus imap.

That would create a new mailbox. The problem with the >password is AFAIK that at least cyrus (the one we use) and >maybe a lot of other imap servers authenticate users against >existing system users or LDAP or anything else. So you can >create new mailboxes but the user that want's to get access to >his newly created mailbox has to exist in the system/LDAP or >where ever.

I need more information about your imap server and the OS it is >running on (we use SuSE Linux, cyrus imap and openldap)

This might sound a little bit complicated but once you get things >set up correctly it should work perfectly

Regards,
Thomas

hmm....What do You think?