RE: [cobalt-users] FREE Web mail WHERE?

[Sales - Way to the Web <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Ariel,

> Hi.. I just saw this thread, I have a question: all this 
> wemail programs,
> where do they store the users and the user's e-mails? I 
> needed one of this
> free webmail programs, all the programs I found would store 
> the users like
> normal e-mail users, on /etc/passwd, and I don't want that (I 
> don't want a
> /etc/passwd with 10000 entries).

This really depends on what type of product you are after. If you want to
give users POP3 accounts AND web-based email access to them, then you are
going to have to have valid user accounts in the /etc/passwd file.

However, if you only want to provide web-based email with the functionality
for users to access their own existing POP3 accounts (wherever they may be),
then there are numerous products available.

We produce such a commercial product called MailNow that uses a single POP3
catchall account per domain that you offer to users (easily created on the
RaQs). You can then have your 10000 entries with only the single account in
your /etc/passwd file. The actual web-based email users are stored in the
products own user database which is kept outside of your web tree. Have a
look at the following for more information:
http://www.mailnow.co.uk

Regards,
Jonathan Michaelson

Way to the Web Ltd
Commercial CGI Scripting, Web Hosting
http://www.waytotheweb.com