webmail: outside URL

[sparkman]

Hi everyone,

One of my cPanel users wants to create email accounts under her domain and then let users access those accounts thru webmail using only their email username and a password. What URL can they do this at?

I've tried:

http://ourdomain.com/cpanel/horde/
(doesn't work at all)

http://amrapur.net:2082/horde/
(requires a cpanel login before you are offered a webmail login)

I can't believe that a webmail program wouldn't let outside users access their webmail, so I must be missing something. Any ideas?

Thanks!


Shawn Yarbrough
[email protected]

 

[Marty]

www.yourdomain.com/webmail/

 

[sparkman]

Thanks! That works for me.

Also, is there some way to make /webmail/ always default straight into Horde so users don't have to log in twice? Double logins look very unprofessional.

 

[BenO]

bump ! i would to know too, if we could have only one webmail by default and login only on it !

 

[Port80Hosting]

Originally posted by BenO
bump ! i would to know too, if we could have only one webmail by default and login only on it !

bump

 

[elleryjh]

you could link to

http://www.domain.com:2095/horde/index.php

 

[Port80Hosting]

Originally posted by sparkman

http://amrapur.net:2082/horde/
(requires a cpanel login before you are offered a webmail login)

 

[Juanra]

not 2082 but 2095

 

[Port80Hosting]

Originally posted by Juanra
not 2082 but 2095

Then they have to login twice.

 

[elleryjh]

that's normal behavior with horde, but the info should appear automatically

Plus you could just add onload="document.implogin.submit()" to the body of /usr/local/cpanel/base/horde/imp/login.php

 

[Port80Hosting]

Originally posted by elleryjh
that's normal behavior with horde, but the info should appear automatically

Plus you could just add onload="document.implogin.submit()" to the body of /usr/local/cpanel/base/horde/imp/login.php

It just looks unproffesional if you ask me. I would rather they get the nice login page instead of the pop up for authenticication. But I dont want mess up any of the security by like just removing the .htaccess file or whatever is making that pop up.

 

[elleryjh]

You dont have to pop up a form. You could just make a form post to http://server.com:2082/login

Or use something like this http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/32562.html

Or modify cpanelproxy to allow posts and cookies

 

[Port80Hosting]

Originally posted by elleryjh
You dont have to pop up a form. You could just make a form post to http://server.com:2082/login

Or use something like this http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/32562.html

Or modify cpanelproxy to allow posts and cookies

Im talking about the popup dialogue box.

 

[fizz]

When i worked for a large web host, we had webmail.blah setup and userts logged in with full email, i had a set routine that would automatically connect to remote domain @domain.com and then also use full email to authenticate. You could use this server wide, or even company wide. It was a huge hit. But if you plan on doing this and you have more than say 5-10,000 customers, setup a dedicated webmail box. Ill toy around with the new horde and see if i can work something simillar out.

 

[elleryjh]

Originally posted by Port80Hosting
Im talking about the popup dialogue box.

You said you didn't like the popup box. I gave you three ways to get rid of it.

 

[vicos]

Am I missing something here? Why do you have to authenticate through http to get to the webmail login? What if I have 100 email accounts on my domain and I want all 100 people to be able to use Horde? I have to give them my cpanel username and password to get in? That doesn't make any sense.

I have a Plesk box and they have it setup so that webmail.domain.com takes you right to the Horde login page. Isn't there some generic URL on a CPANEL box that doesn't require HTTP authentication? I must be missing something.

 

[elleryjh]

Read this thread.

http://yourdomain.com/webmail
http://yourdomain.com:2095
https://yourdomain.com:2096

It does require http auth, but not your cpanel credentials of course.

 

[goodmove]

Originally posted by elleryjh
You dont have to pop up a form. You could just make a form post to http://server.com:2082/login

Or use something like this http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/32562.html

Or modify cpanelproxy to allow posts and cookies

The cpanelproxy is an interesting idea. Have you got the modified version somewhere?

 

[elleryjh]

I do, but it's too far integrated into my site to give out. It's very easy to do if you know a little php.