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***jmbeach*** · #31 02-29-2004, 12:30 PM

you cannot use mail.yourdomain.com because that is the mail server alias. You have to use one that's not taken, like webmail.yourdomain.com.

I just set up subdomains of webmail.domain.com for customers that want to use webmail. That way they only have to enter their account name and password. Everything else is hard coded as hidden form fields.

***cjmelhorn*** · #32 03-01-2004, 09:30 PM

So we can actually make a customer login page for our domains? That would be a really nice feature. Hold on tight, I am sure I am going to need help with this.

Thanks in advance,

***Silverbug*** · #33 03-01-2004, 09:44 PM

one of the few problems you will have with this is, unless you check and store the values somehow, if they enter an incorrect username or password they will be sent to the @mail page.

***nelsonke*** · #34 03-02-2004, 08:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Silverbug

one of the few problems you will have with this is, unless you check and store the values somehow, if they enter an incorrect username or password they will be sent to the @mail page.

Agreed -- I have been using a log on off my web site for months. My clients like it and it improves your brand awareness to the email users of your client. You can also include an advertising message, or internet use tip on the email log in page. It could be a little confusing when they default to the atmail page, but does not seem to be a big problem. Good luck.

***jmbeach*** · #35 03-02-2004, 10:19 AM

yeah, I just remind my customers that have a custom page that if they have trouble to go back to their url - webmail.theirdomain.com

So far, so good

***Silverbug*** · #36 03-02-2004, 03:42 PM

Yeah i just explain to mine, that the original login page has alot of other fields that they would normally need to fill in, and what i have done is created them a page where i have pre-set those fields. And like you said jmbeach, if they have problems to go back to the webmail.domain.com and try again.

***craigdunlop*** · #37 08-10-2004, 12:58 PM

I'm still a little confused regarding the custom email page, if someone has the time, would be much appreciated...

I currently have setup a custom page that will only work with this url: http://webmail.hsphere.cc/atmail.pl if the user enters their domain and their username / password.

I can access webmail currently through mail.mydomain.com but I can't seem to link to the perl file through this.

Is there another level of customisation above this I can setup that will allow my clients to stay within webmail.mydomain.com while viewing webmail instead of ening up with the ip? ...mentioned earlier using sub-domains but not sure I understand the procedure there? Does this allow you to use your domain as the host mail account so that the user only need enter username/password rather then username/host/password? Would be very interested in knowing how to set this up?

I tried setting a DNS A record within my service accounts' service domain with the ip 216.157.131.123 but I only get an empty page with NT on it. Maybe it's because the Custom A records need time to propogate and then all will be well?

Cheers!

***Curt*** · #38 08-12-2004, 12:05 AM

If it helps, here's how I've got it setup for my clients.

To start, create a DNS A record pointing to the @Mail server IP address, like this:

If you're worried about the IP address ever changing, you could instead make it a CNAME record that points to "webmail.hsphere.cc".

From there, you just need your login page, though it sounds like you may already be okay in this department. Here's a stripped down version of mine though:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>YourDomain.com WebMail</TITLE>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">       
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM action="http://webmail.yourdomain.com/atmail.pl" method="post" name="loginPage" target="_top">
<input type="hidden" name="MailType" value="imap">
<input type="hidden" name="MailServer" value="mail.yourdomain.com">
<input type="hidden" name="pop3host" value="yourdomain.com">
<br>
E-Mail Name: <INPUT name="username" value=""> @ YourDomain.com<br>
<br>
Password: <INPUT name="password" type="password"><br>
<br>
Interface: <select name="LoginType">
<option value="simple">Simple (Any browser)</option>
<option value="blue_pane">Professional (IE5+ NS6+)</option>
<option value="xp">Advanced (IE6+)</option>
</select><br>
<br>
Language: <select name="Language">
<option value="" selected>Default</option> 
<option value="arabic">Arabic</option>
<option value="chinese">Chinese</option>
<option value="english">English</option>
<option value="espanol">Espanol</option>
<option value="french">French</option>
<option value="german">German</option>
<option value="greek">Greek</option>
<option value="italiano">Italiano</option>
<option value="portuguese">Portuguese</option>
</select><br>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="Login" value="Login"><br>
<br>
</FORM>
<a href="http://cp.yourdomain.com:8080/psoft/servlet/psoft.hsphere.CP?action=change_mbox_password">Change your password</a>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Just change all of the "yourdomain.com"'s to whatever domain you want this to work with. If you want to make the form even more simple for users, or if you want to force them into certain features, you can remove either of the <select...> sections and replace them appropriately as follows:

Code:

<input type="hidden" name="LoginType" value="blue_pane">
<input type="hidden" name="Language" value="english">

This could be useful, for example, if you know that only English-speaking people with relatively up-to-date browsers will be logging in.

You could also add "selected" to the appropriate <option> tags to define default/preferred settings without actually forcing them upon users.

Hope this helps. Feel free to PM me if you have any trouble or other questions though. Best of luck!

***generic*** · #39 08-12-2004, 12:21 AM

beautiful, thank you!

will look up how to do a cname and add this feature to my hositngpage, thanks.

***craigdunlop*** · #40 08-12-2004, 12:27 AM

Thanks for the detailed answer Curt,

Another minor thing I had to change with the form, since I didn't have space for the dual fields for user/host was to add them as hidden fields and use a field called emailurl to enter the full username @ address, then on submit:

var tmpArr = formObj.emailurl.value.split("@");
formObj.username.value = tmpArr[0];
formObj.pop3host.value = tmpArr[1];

cheers!

***craigdunlop*** · #41 08-12-2004, 12:45 AM

...actually Curt, I'm not sure how yours is working becuase if the pop3host is hard-coded then it would only let in accounts/usernames under that domain. Or this was all I could get working with it that way, which was another reason I added the full username @ theirdomain.com

Should all users be able to login, even though the pop3host is set to mydomain.com?

***Curt*** · #42 08-12-2004, 09:45 AM

I customize mine on a client-by-client basis actually, as some have requested that their own domain should show up in the address bar instead of mine. This was never intended to be a unified login page for all domains hosting with me though. If that's what you're working towards, here's a modified version of that code that should work okay for you:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>YourDomain.com WebMail</TITLE>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<script>
function BuildMailServer() {
document.loginPage.MailServer.value = 'mail.' + document.loginPage.pop3host.value;
}
</script>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM action="http://webmail.yourdomain.com/atmail.pl" method="post" name="loginPage" target="_top" onsubmit="BuildMailServer();">
<input type="hidden" name="MailType" value="imap">
<input type="hidden" name="MailServer" value="">
<br>
E-Mail Name: <input type="text" name="username" value=""> @ <input type="text" name="pop3host" value=""><br>
<br>
Password: <input name="password" type="password"><br>
<br>
Interface: <select name="LoginType">
<option value="simple">Simple (Any browser)</option>
<option value="blue_pane">Professional (IE5+ NS6+)</option>
<option value="xp">Advanced (IE6+)</option>
</select><br>
<br>
Language: <select name="Language">
<option value="" selected>Default</option> 
<option value="arabic">Arabic</option>
<option value="chinese">Chinese</option>
<option value="english">English</option>
<option value="espanol">Espanol</option>
<option value="french">French</option>
<option value="german">German</option>
<option value="greek">Greek</option>
<option value="italiano">Italiano</option>
<option value="portuguese">Portuguese</option>
</select><br>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="Login" value="Login"><br>
<br>
</FORM>
<a href="http://cp.yourdomain.com:8080/psoft/servlet/psoft.hsphere.CP?action=change_mbox_password">Change your password</a>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Basically, this un-hides the pop3host field, and uses it when the form is submitted to build the appropriate MailServer field. Hope this is more what you were looking for.

***joaquimponte*** · #43 08-17-2004, 05:10 PM

Tks everybody for this precious help on turning webmail better...

But i think i've missed someting.

Ok, i've created an A record. But now, where do i put the login page? should i create a subdomain called "webmail"?

If i've correctly understoud, the purpose of this threat is to access custom login page when entering the link webmail.mydomain.com, right?

Tks in advance.

***Silverbug*** · #44 08-17-2004, 06:15 PM

Yeah thats all i've done with mine. just created the subdomain and stuck it in there

***Curt*** · #45 08-17-2004, 06:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joaquimponte

Tks everybody for this precious help on turning webmail better...

But i think i've missed someting.

Ok, i've created an A record. But now, where do i put the login page? should i create a subdomain called "webmail"?

If i've correctly understoud, the purpose of this threat is to access custom login page when entering the link webmail.mydomain.com, right?

Tks in advance.

The method I've posted about was if you wanted to have the following setup:

Login Page URL: www.yourdomain.com/webmail.html
@Mail Server URL: webmail.yourdomain.com

Certainly you could create a subdomain in H-Sphere and host the webmail login page there, but I would suggest then making another DNS "A" record for @Mail (ie: atmail.yourdomain.com) and having the login page point to that for it's form action. Feel free to PM me if you'd like a little assistance with setup.

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