Scott, I believe you can use a com object by using the cold fusion cfobject
tag. This would allow me to call your com object from within my cold fusion
script.
However, I really need to use sql server as my database because I anticipate
a couple hundred thousand users, and I want to offe othere services as well
such that they have the same username. This means that other services will
be accessing the same database as Imail. One of these other services is a
storefront solution which is writen in coldfusion and it must use sql
server. That's the biggest reason I need to use sql server at this point (in
addition to performance issues as well).
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Pouliot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 11:53 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Looking for coldfusion Automated signup front end
for imail anyone got one???
> I'm not all that familiar with ColdFusion, but does it allow you to use
COM
> Objects like a bunch of other languages do? If so, I've already built a
COM
> Object that utilizes Adduser.exe and the IMail Registry for the purpose of
> adding users on the fly.
>
> Scott
>
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> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Looking for coldfusion Automated signup front
> end for imail anyone got one???
>
>
> > I am starting a a vanity email service where members
> > can select among approx
> > 50 virtual domains for their email address (like
> > hotmail with a choice of
> > domain). I will be using imail.
> >
> > I was thinking of using coldfusion as the front end.
> > Has anyone done this?
> > If so do you have any code you can share, or perhaps
> > make available for a
> > small fee.
> >
> > I took the coldfusion class from allaire, but some
> > starter code would make
> > my life much easier.
> >
> > Looking for autosignup, automatd password retreival,
> > and using sql as the
> > back end database.
>
> Jeff,
>
> Have a look at our EZSignUp utility (demo at
> http://mail.hksi.net)... you'll see you can choose your domain
> from a pop-up. That solution uses ASP served by IIS on the same
> machine.
>
> We're a ColdFusion shop, so I appreciate your wanting to do a
> webmail interface with CF, but you're in for a big, big job.
> You'll have to rely on POP'ing the mail out, which is quite time
> and processor-intensive with CF. You could probably spend 6
> programmer-months working on a CF WebMail system, and still not
> have half the functionality that you can get (especially
> administrative functions) using IMail's web messaging service
> and either stock or custom templates.
>
> You could use CF4.5 and its <cfexecute> tag to trigger the
> adduser utility in a similar fashion to our EZSignUp ASP
> solution. Or, just insert the rows directly into SQL7... but if
> you bypass the adduser utility, remember that you're not
> checking against the Alias names, which IMail stores in the
> registry. So, users might get an account by the name of "info"
> or "sales", overriding your aliases, unless you do a hard-wired
> check for such names in the CF code.
>
> hope this helps,
> Ron
>
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