Email Account Signup Script

[jonestx]

If you run a family or club site, something like that, where you want to allow your members to signup for a POP account on your server, there's a way to automate the process.

 

DISCLAIMER: This is NOT for everybody. This is only recommended if you have a membership site of some sort, and restrict it to your members.

 

Check out this script:

CPANEL Site Email Signup Script

 

It's simple, it's effective, it works, and you can install it quickly and forward the user to your webmail after they signup.

 

I pop it up in a new window, and direct the user to close the window after signup, with instructions where to find the webmail and Outlook setup links.

 

Once again:

 

DON'T MAKE THIS SCRIPT AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC on your site unless you want a BUNCH of people getting free POP accounts from you.

[surefire]

(Without looking at the script...)

 

I'm all for creativity and thinking 'outside the box' but I have a feeling that that this resource could be abused even if your intentions are good.

 

Scenario... well meaning TCH member puts script on site and opens it up to the public. Nefarious user opens up an account and starts to spam.

 

End user reports spam to TCH. Head Guru cracks down on pop email accounts to protect other TCH users. Certain IP's at TCH are banned by ISP's.

 

Maybe I'm over reacting.

 

But I'd be one p o'd son of a gun if all of a sudden my emails are getting blocked because someone using the same IP was spammin or helped a third party to spam.... regardless of intentions.

 

If I've proposed a ridiculous scenario that could never happen, then I apologize in advance.

[jonestx]

I absolutely agree....but it's a resource anyone can find on a Google search for "cpanel mail".

 

That being said, I repeat my earlier warning....this script is NOT for everyone. Installing it safely requires restricting access to it to your members, and some knowledge of PHP scripting....it will need some minor modifications.

[Head Guru]

Just a friendly note from the management of TCH.

 

This is now a banned script on our servers, if it is found runing on any web site we will notify you to remove it.

 

A script like this has no business on a shared server environment.

 

Just a side note -

 

Incidentally, love the http://lucidstorm.com page, what a bunch of idiots, they must expect their customers to be lucid too

they cant even spell "kernel" properly, and claim to be running 2.4.2-2 (stable is 2.4.20), with php 4.2.2, apache 1.3.26, etc. etc. (all insecure versions)