Richard,
Very good point, and you are correct, I am not looking to hire an army and spend tons of time and money on it.
I have since rethought this, thanks in part to this thread. I have decided to go with something more secure. Since I have a database of users already for the site on ServerA, I will just set up a cron job on ServerB that runs a script that queries that database and then adds, edits, removes users accordingly. That way the access of the shell is being done always by a trusted system only user. I will put an extra table in my database called something like "user_email_account_management_requests" and the remote script with check that for any tasks it needs to do.
Thanks again to all those who helped me with this. I have learned quite a bit and enjoyed it.
Best regards, -- Jonathan Duncan http://www.nacnud.com
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Richard Lynch wrote:
I am looking to do like Hotmail, or Yahoo!, or Mail.com, or any of the other places do. I can go sign up on their site and immediately have an e-mail account that I can start using. No admin has to take the time to create my account for me.
You do understand that these hosts have MAJOR PROBLEMS and invest inordinate amounts of resources to users who abuse their services.
You're going to be spending a HUGE amount of money/time if you have something as wide-open as those.
Their whole schtick is "Free Email" so it's worth it to them to invest in an army of people to handle the problems.
Is it worth it to you?
HIGHLY unlikely.
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