RE: [cobalt-users] Re: cobalt-users digest, Vol 1 #1443 - 19 msgs

["Dan Kriwitsky" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The thing is if you don't want 10000 entries in /etc/passwd, where do
> you want them? Because people will need to log on and authenticate,
> right? If you just need to offer email to huge numbers of people,
> like you see in airports and those places, you CAN open up most of
> these programs to allow for the entry of pop and smtp configurations
> by the user. It's just a minor configuration change in the scripts
> themselves. Or you can do that with just the POP.
>

I recall being able to do something like this with iHTML that let visitors
check their mail on any POP3 account and nothing was stored on my server. It
just passed the info to their server and retrieved the mail to display on
the screen. It wasn't stored anywhere on my server.
IIRC, I've seen some PHP3 scripts to do this.
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Dan Kriwitsky