creating email addresses in php code

[Chad Seibert]

Hello, Community!

 

Is it possible to create email addresses in php code? I have checked the documentation and can't find it anywhere. Sorry if this is a dumb question.

 

Thanks for any assistance,

Chad Seibert

[aebstract]

What exactly do you mean by create email addresses?

[Chad Seibert]

When someone comes and registers on my website, like Bob Smith, I want to be able to create the email address bob_smith@mywebsite.com.

[boo_lolly]

When someone comes and registers on my website, like Bob Smith, I want to be able to create the email address bob_smith@mywebsite.com.

 

well, you're getting into some complicated stuff right there. i'd look into shell scripting and perl to create email addresses on the fly. let's not forget you're going to need to integrate all of this with a mail server.

[Chad Seibert]

Any resources/help to guide me along. Thanks for the assistance !

[brad]

do you own the server?

 

unless you have pretty advanced hosting im not sure this will be very easy at all.

[Chad Seibert]

Yes, I own the server. It's running Slackware 11.

[trq]

All you need do is figure out the steps you take to create amail accounts now, and place those stpes into a script. php would be fine, but its probably going to be simpler through bash.

 

Have yuo got virtual mailboxes setup on your server or do mail accounts also need a system account?

 

On my systems its easy to add a new email address, I simply add a new system account, but you want really want to do this on a public access server.

[boo_lolly]

just google it man.

 

http://shilo.is-a-geek.com/slack/sendmail18.html

http://www.slackbook.org/

http://www.hypexr.org/linux_mail_server.php

http://www.flatmtn.com/computer/Linux-EmailServer.html

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch21_:_Configuring_Linux_Mail_Servers

 

by the way, this is just between you and me, i'm glad you're running slackware. slackware is no piece of cake, it definitely takes an avid user to learn a distribution that takes so much manual configuration. there is no handholding with gentoo, either =). good luck!

[Chad Seibert]

Hello,

 

I just got my email system setup using sendmail. But now, how can I create a script to create the new user. "adduser -D test" still prompts for information, so how can I set it to used the default uid, group, etc.

 

Thanks for your help !

Chad Seibert

[per1os]

Probably do a grep for the userid and than look at the manpage for adduser on the smtp to look at the parameters needed.

[Chad Seibert]

There is no manpage for adduser.

[per1os]

What happens when u just do adduser, does it display help information? Or adduser --help

[boo_lolly]

Hello,

 

I just got my email system setup using sendmail. But now, how can I create a script to create the new user. "adduser -D test" still prompts for information, so how can I set it to used the default uid, group, etc.

 

Thanks for your help !

Chad Seibert

 

personally, to save server load, i'd write a shell script in perl, and use the shell_exec() command in my php script to run it and add a user to the mail accounts list. does that make sense?