Looking for PHP E-Mail Package

BrettT

We need to add a PHP-based e-mail server to an existing subscriber-based project already in development. We need the following features:

Ability to script the creation of new accounts using PHP
Ability to set a storage quota for each account using PHP
Webmail interface
Ability for SOME users to check their accounts via a normal POP client (Outlook, etc.)

If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

Thanks,
Brett

drew010

www.hivemail.com
www.socketmail.com

BrettT

Yup - we are looking hard at Socketmail but at the present time it apparently lacks the ability to set account quotas.

drew010

i use hivemail, it supports user groups and quotas for all. users can also check pop mail from hivemail and have it put in their normal inbox. depending on how you configure the mail gateway, the users with permissions could check from the pop server themself. you would have to use the pop gateway and not the pipe mode.

BrettT

So are you saying that users could check their Hivemail account from an outside POP client without using the web interface?

To be honest I had not seriously considered Hivemail because the demo site does not work for me at all due to the poorly written Javascript. Also, many of the demo pages do not display correctly for me (I am running IE an a Mac) a bad sign for my very platform-diverse user base.

Thanks,
Brett

drew010

yes, if you use the pop gateway, there is nothing to stop the person from checking mail in something like outlook or eudora. i know what you mean about the templates having problems. i use mozilla and a few things show up strange. there are lots of templates out there for it, or you could even build your own if you wanted. just find a minimal one with very little JS.

mar1skha

Brett

Socketmail does have the capability to control user quota, thats the basic thing in email system.

I believe SocketMail is the best choice. They are also throwing in the WAP module free at the moment. Their new skin is nice,kinda like gmail or yahoo, but nice. Now they have mail compression, mydocument and also 'tags' which is like gmail label.

Try it at http://www.socketmaildemo.com. Socketmail site is at http://www.socketmail.com