mail server management

alexu_

hello,
I have a server using sendmail and php4. I need to manage the mail server (pop3). As a webmail client I installed IlohaMail and everything is working fine, but I need an admin area with simple functions: add mail account, delete mail account, change mail account info.

I don't know how can I communicate this with the mail server.

Any help or hint is appreciated.

bpat1434

Do you have cPanel? That has that built in.

~Brett

alexu_

I don't have CPanel I have Webmin but the problem is I need to create each user an email address when they sign-up and then modify or delete this information when the admin deletes an account or modifies information.

So for each user account I need an email account with the same username.

id10t

A user account gives you an email account automatically.

alexu_

so, how can I create a user account?

I tried to use the "useradd" command but

it asks for the crypted password and seems to reject everything I tried here (crypt() PHP function)
the script runs as user apache and I need super-user privileges

alexu_

the second problem is solved. I used "sudo" to run the useradd command as a superuser and it worked.

The first problem is still there: I can't find a way to set the password. useradd manual says that I should use the crypt() function from C.

I need a PHP equivalent if someone knows about it.

I also tried to run:
passthru("sudo -u root passwd "$login"\n".$pwd."\n".$pwd);

I don't know if \n can be accepted into a command but this doesn't seem to work.