Does anyone know how you can actually create a physical email account with IMAP or POP3, or is this not possible?
pwaring
12:23 pm on Apr 15, 2006 (gmt 0)
It depends what you're using to provide the backend services. I believe it's possible to make both Postfix (as your mail server) and Courier (IMAP server) get user information from a MySQL database, so if you were using such a setup it would just be a case of constructing the the right SQL statements and executing them via your PHP script (perhaps with some variable substitutions to create an account with a given username/password).
I'm actually thinking of providing a similar service via one of my domains at some point, and the impression I get is that it's not too difficult to implement.
dreamcatcher
12:39 pm on Apr 15, 2006 (gmt 0)
There`s a tutorial on building an e-mail system in "PHP & MySQL Web Development" by Luke Welling & Laura Thomson.
