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Does anyone know any free php scrips I can use?
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Glenn Hefley
I do not think everyone.net is the best solution. You have to pay 10$/month for 100 emails. I think I will have many accounts but not all will be used (some will use the email service once a month).
The host gives me unlimited email adreses and I have a forum (and the email sistem works great).
I did not undestant how phpnuke can help me. I already have my own content management sistem and I nead just the mailing program.
My site is a Romanian portal (there are few portals without mail). I want to show my visitors in their email account banners with the sites I promote.
If you have the facilities, time and effort to run your own webmail, and feel that this is the best solution, then I'd go with webadepts advice. Just don't fool yourself into thinking it's a 10 minute job, coz it aint :) (voice of -some- experience speaking there!)
The host gives me unlimited email adreses and I have a forum (and the email sistem works great).Are they aliases or real POP3 email addresses?
I think the adreses are POP3 (I can use them in my own account).
I wanted the email service as an extension of my portal I have the time to develop my own webmail but I do not have the time to monitor all the mesages (to delete spammers accounts).
Best advice I can think of is higher a programmer. A real one, who knows what she is doing and the risks envolved.
You say you have unlimited email addresses, well here is a very real senerio that brought a client of mine off the web for a month, because his ISP closed him down.
In 190 minutes, a Perl programer of any real skill, can write a script that will go to your site, fill out the form with the required information, get an email address and start sending out spam. If you put a limit on how many can be sent from one address a day, then the script simply setus up another account and carries on, until you or your ISP shut it down from that IP address, to which, it jumps IP's, sets up a new account and continues its spamming.
After a few days of this, the ISp simply takes you off line. The spammer doesn't care, he just moves on to the next open service like that and continues.
Even if you are charging for these accounts you aren't really safe, because many times, a spammer is willing to pay quite a bit to get the needed total out in a single night. So the script signs up and sends, filling out all of the forms needed. The card number will clear.. whether it is good or not is something to be seen later.
This is not far fetched at all, it has happened, and continues to happen. Just look at AOL for instance. Or MSN and Yahoo.
There are ways to keep this from happening, but you need a programmer, and a good one, not a quick fix, or a script you can add to your sight.
I know I'm sounding like I've got a split personality here, but since I put that post in there, this has been bothering me. So, there's my two bits and I can sleep again.
:-)
