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That's awesome, Dennis. Thanks a bunch! I will work on this over the next couple of days and holler at you if I have any problems. Thanks again! Syenna

Ahhh yes, I see the plugin now that will enable a user to change their password (http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugins_category.php?category_id=5 for anyone else who's interested). Thanks. Question is, which one do I use? Do I use the one that allows the user to transparently use cpanel? Actually, I think a better question to ask is, which one are you using? Syenna

Thanks for the tutorial, dlevens. I was just getting ready to start setting up email accounts for my users, and I think I'm going to go with a custom installation instead of using TCH's version. Here's my question, and I suspect I already know the answer. Is using cpanel the only way to set up new accounts? I would like my users to be able to set up their own email accounts, so that I don't have to know the password. Is there anything that can do that? Normally I write PHP scripts for what I want done (learning it fast, and it's a lot of fun), but I don't think that's an option for this. Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide!

Greetings all; very helpful thread. Thanks to everyone. [Edited for clarity] I'm working on doing backups done of my site. I don't want to back up the whole site; nor do I want to back up my entire database. It will be a five-step process for my daily backups: 1) Dump several tables from my database into a .SQL file in my backups directory (Done, using a PHP file) 2) Copy several custom PHP files from my site to that same backup directory (Done, using a PHP file) 3) Combine all of the files created in #1 and #2 into a TAR file (PROBLEM) 4) Gzip that TAR file (Unstarted) 5) FTP it off-site (Unstarted) I'm having a problem with step 3, TAR'ing all of the files in my backup directory. The PHP file that I created to TAR the 8 or 9 files in this directory is named backup.php, and it consists of: ><?php // date & timestamp file // commented out until I figure out what's wrong with my tar syntax // $filename="/".date("Y-m-d_Hi", mktime())."_backup"; // create .TAR file exec("tar -cvf mybackup.tar /public_html/backups"); // tarring everything in the directory ?> When I point my browser to www/backups/backup.php, it executes, but the "testbackup.tar" file that is created is a 10240-byte file filled with NULL, and which (according to 7-Zip file manager) is not a valid archive. Plus, I'm backing up about 120k worth of files (PHP and SQL dump files), so I know that a 10k file isn't right. Can anyone shed some insight into what I may be doing wrong? Thanks in advance for any help. I hope this makes sense. Syenna

Thanks for the quick response (and at 8:30am on a Sunday, no less). I'm constantly amazed at how responsive you guys are. Thanks again! Syenna

Greetings, I'm currently using your service without having purchased a domain name. My friends and I have finally decided on the name we want to use, but we'd like to purchase it as .com, .net, and .org. My question is this... Can we set it up so that all three domain names point to the same account without having to use a redirect to one of the three? That is, when the user is navigating the site, s/he will still see in the browser's navigation bar site.com, site.net, or site.org, depending on how they originally arrived at the site. I hope this question makes sense. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Syenna