Ok, so it's a bad idea :-) I'm aware of the security risks I'm dealing with here, but thanks to all those who gave me some ideas to go with. This WILL NOT be on a production machine, it's on my internal network and I'm just playing with it to see what I can do. Have a nice day and thanks to all for the help.
-----Original Message----- From: Dan Hardiker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Creating mail account on Linux server >> I'm curious about the same thing. RedHat 7.2 with default IMAP. >> > How can I create a mail account on Linux server with PHP ? If you check the list, you will see a reply from myself with a list of questions you need to answer for us to begin to help you. > In general, if people need to ask such a question, then they really are > not ready, or do not understand the security implications of creating > mail accounts on a server. I agree with Jason here. 1. An IMAP account != a mail account, thats just a MAA (Mail Access Agent) which allows you to read mail from a file/dir/storage space on your machine. I use Courier IMAP for that (using ./Maildir). 2. We need to know your MTA and MDA in order to even begin to help 3. On a "default" RedHat setup you need root access (as in you need give your php script root access) in order to perform what your asking. If that doesnt ring alarm bells, please type "halt" at your RedHat console now. > The first thing you need to ask yourself is why would you want to do > it? For the most part, I use these sort of functions from a PHP script to administrate my system and give customers automated access to modify their own domains. (This is all done through a MySQL firewall [as in data gets put into MySQL from the interface, and then read by backend scripts that do the dirty work - unconnected to the frontend interface for security ... incase anyone was about to tell me what they think a firewall is]) Although I can't see these two people having the unix know-how in order to build such a system, let alone securely. I would make some bitchy underhanded comments about their Mother's and the local Ameaoba slut relating to their IQ ... but I wont, cuz Im not like that ;) heh Jason: what dya recon on people being licensed to be able to run a unix style operating system? heh Hell lets license people to use computers. -- Dan Hardiker [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ADAM Software & Systems Engineer First Creative Ltd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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