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

[Ariel Manzur <punto@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know, that's exaclty what I wrote.. The catchall gets the mails, and
stores them on a mysql database..

Thanks for the offer tho. bye.

Ariel.

At 09:36 04/10/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>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
>
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