Nate Posted June 18, 2003 Posted June 18, 2003 Ok, I really needed the ability to batch create/remove e-mail accounts (boss wants e-mail for everyone in company). In Cpanel you can only do one at a time (lots of typing and clicking)....I submitted a trouble ticket saying something like "help, I need to batch create/remove e-mail addresses, can this be implemented?" I got: There is no program to automate email setup that I am aware of. As a reply. So, uh...I sorta made one myself. It seems to work just fine (created 100 test accounts w/o any problems). If this is breaking a rule somewhere, please tell me. Otherwise, yay! Regards, Nate PS: It's still goes through CPanel to do it... Quote
KevinW Posted June 18, 2003 Posted June 18, 2003 It's your web site. So, if you can write a script to auto create accounts, more power to you! If you would like to share the script, I'd be happy to review it, and then make it available via ther TCH Help web site for others. But, I must ask - if you have to make 100 email accounts -- you have a signficant size company -- what are you running in house for email? If you happen to be running an in house mail server, like Microsoft Exchange, you could update your MX record on your TCH site and redirect it to your in house mail server, and you wouldn't have to set up your users on both the web server side and the inhouse system. Just a thought. -kw Quote
Head Guru Posted June 18, 2003 Posted June 18, 2003 Nate - If you plan to 'really' use 4000 emails accounts on your plan, what size mail boxes are you going to give your users? You will break every rule in tch the moment all 4000 users get into work and check email. You really need to go with a dedicated server. Quote
Nate Posted June 18, 2003 Author Posted June 18, 2003 Nate - If you plan to 'really' use 4000 emails accounts on your plan, what size mail boxes are you going to give your users? You will break every rule in tch the moment all 4000 users get into work and check email. You really need to go with a dedicated server. I see your point, and I agree. Our 'company' is actually a Charter School. We are switching over to an online system for teachers giving assignments and...stuff (technical term). I purchased a deluxe reseller package to host the two websites that we currently have hosted by 'other' web hosts. I do not believe we need a dedicated server for the online bit (the 'test' one using ~100 students with a discussion board they visited/posted to often only hit about 1gig of transfer per month at peak on the other host). However, if he really does want an e-mail address for everybody...we will purchase a server specifically for our e-mail. Thanks for the speedy replies! Rock Sign Regards, Nate PS: Is it possbile to have multiple domains on a dedicated? Quote
Nate Posted June 18, 2003 Author Posted June 18, 2003 Nevermind about the many many pop3s, just talked to my boss. He says we will do the e-mail through another company. Ah, the power of executive decisions... Regards, Nate Quote
Head Guru Posted June 19, 2003 Posted June 19, 2003 PS: Is it possbile to have multiple domains on a dedicated? Yes you can host as many domains as you like on your dedicated server. Quote
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