RE: [cobalt-users] How can I add a user from a public form

[Clive Harper <CHarper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Allowing a user to run his own personal Hotmail is NOT NOT NOT a good
>idea. Did I mention it's NOT a good idea??
>And I seem to remember Jeff Lovell (I'm pretty sure it was Jeff)
>saying once, when we were discussing this very mailing list and what
>it ran on, that "4000 mail users would CRUSH a RaQ".

The customer is not proposing to run a 'Hotmail' type service, it is an
organisation who has a certain number of members (max 1000), all the users
access their mail through a webmail box on our network so we can configure
sendmail to only relay from a *very* small range of addresses.

>What's the default mailbox size on these accounts going to be? How
>much space is this website allowed to have?

Each user has a 5MB mailbox limit, the site has a 1GB maximum size (this
will be increased as necessary), the users will sign up over a period of
about a year, it will not be a mass signup over a short period of time, so
we can plan the scale up quite easily.

>You *do* realize that what your user is going to end up accomplishing
>is getting a bunch of people who don't give a hoot about his site;
>they just know that there's a free email there that they can sign up
>for and then send out spam with???

The users will not be able to register just for the mail service, they have
to complete a registration form for the organisation first then the details
are forwarded to our CGI script to create a user account on the RAQ to
allocate them an e-mail address, it is this process we want to automate
hence the original request.

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Clive