RE: [IMail Forum] Offering free email at Motorcross

[Scott Pouliot]

Once you setup IMail to use the external database then your all set.  IMail will query the Access database when a user attempts to login.  The only step left would be to add a record to the database(thus creating a new user login) using ASP.   If you don't know ASP then I would first suggest visiting www.activeserverpages.com and going through some of the tutorials.  These tutorials will teach you the steps you need to know to add a record to a database  ;-)   FYI - ASP will only run on IIS 3.0 and IIS 4.0(and of course 5.0 when it's released). -----Original Message----- From: Raul Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 11:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Offering free email at Motorcross Hello Scott, very nice site of Motocross Mail. You can tell me more that how create this asp? a sample of how i make the process to transfer the Ms Access information to Imail?     Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Pouliot To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 2:26 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Offering free email at Motorcross The new user signup is pretty trivial if you have worked with ASP before(if not I suggest you visit www.activeserverpages.com).   We use an external MS Access database to store all of our user info.  When a user hits our sign up page....we naturally ask them a few questions to get the data we need to make the user account.  Once we have this info......we have the form submit to an ASP script which adds a record to the IMail database with the pertinent info.   We have a username and password box on our home page to make the login process one step shorter.  We also use a VERY simple ASP script to process this as well.  Below is a flowchart(of sorts) as to how we use a form besides the IMail form.   1. User fills out the username and password box we provide 2. We check our database to make sure he/she exists and verify their Password 3. Show any error messages if they occur 4. If it's a valid user we redirect to an ASP version of the IMail login form that uses hidden form inputs and the data values they provided in step 1, and we use a Javascript to submit the form(using an OnLoad event) 5. User arrives at their inbox.   Sounds pretty simple right?   ;-)   As far as making IMail work in a frame....just make a frameset and load in the IMail login form(www.yourserver.com:8383).  Once it's in a frame.....it'll stay in there unless you specify a different target.  We also add in a few javascripts on a few pages to ensure that they can not be loaded outside of the frameset.   Any more questions....just drop me a note  ;-)   Scott -----Original Message----- From: Dan Nguyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 3:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Offering free email at Motorcross Hi Scott,   I've checked out your imail at :  http://www.motocross.com/imail and how did you make Imail works  in frame???  Can you show me how the process and method from signing up new user, login and inbox?   What I want to do is from our main homepage, which is not a frame, I will have a link <click here to check email> and it will take them straight to the inbox/main section without requiring them to login (since I already did the authentication when the user goes to our main homepage).   thanks in advance,   *************************************** Dan Nguyen from Hotbiz.com, Your Online Office. *************************************** -----Original Message----- From: Scott Pouliot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, July 08, 1999 11:24 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Offering free email Brian,   Use an ASP Script and an Access Database to process account creation.  We use it on our site and have had no problems at all.   Check it out:  http://www.motocross.com/imail/ -----Original Message----- From: Dunnam, Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 1:53 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [IMail Forum] Offering free email Hello:   I am hosting free email using Imail 5.0.  I need a way for the users to create their own accounts.  For example:  you fill out a form providing your name , password and all relevant info.  Then you click "submit" and I pass that information to Imail in order to create the account.   Any ideas?   Sincerely, Brian Dunnam WMA Executive Head Quarters Atlanta, Georgia