RE: [cobalt-users] POP3/IMAP Mailboxes

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:34 AM 1/15/00  David Harris wrote:

> So I ask this: How do
> hosting providers offer mailboxes to their users without making them go
> through this?

Most, I'd imagine, do what we do:  we allow our customers to make this kind 
of change over the phone, or from a web-based form, but we do it for them 
behind the scenes.

> The last 3 IHPs I used had one form used for adding/removing/viewing pop
> boxes to
> my account.

Was it automatic in real time?

> They had the same thing for autoresponders and fwds.  This is
> the funtionality
> I want to provide to my end user, and If the cobalt can't handle this, maybe
> I made a mistake
> buying it.

The RaQ does NOT have a gui interface to allow your customer to do this in 
real time.  Which is one reason why we don't allow our end users near the 
RaQ gui interface.  If you want to do this yourself with a gui interface, 
you'll have to write the interface.  We could write it for you, though I 
couldn't guarantee you could intermix the RaQ gui with mine, and I 
certainly don't want to rewrite the whole thing.

> Another option is to write a GUI that automates the email alias thing.
> Maybe this is how
> people are doing this. Any ideas on that one?

Exactly.  Do you want me to write it for you?  I could use the money <smile>?

Jeff
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