[markblair]

I am looking for an easily manageable way to provide e-mail addresses to my forum members. I can login to cPanel and create accounts as requested but I would rather have a script installed that takes care of this for me. Does anyone know of any website script that would allow members to create an e-mail account and then access it via a webmail system?

Thanks in advance...

[MrKielington]

I'm not familiar with any script like this.. It does sound like a plan though...

[Moelman]

Can't say I know anything like this either, sorry. I'd be interested to hear if anyone does as I have just set them up manually in the past when I have offered email accounts.

[AzH]

ight be worth checking this: vBMS : vBulletin Mail System - vBulletin.org Forum

I also heard Google did something like what you're trying to get through gmail. You could use your domain but their system. I could have dreamt it though.

[markblair]

Wow, thanks AzH. That sounds exactly like what I am looking for. It hasn't been updated in awhile and most recently is still in beta stage but I will give it a shot.

Edit: I might hold off just yet. Several people are reporting errors with that modification and there has been no support in over a year. Based on the modification though I have something to continue searching for.

[AzH]

Good luck with it mate.

[ZenMaster]

You can sign up for Google Apps for your domain standard edition. And when you sign up it will ask for "Number of users" (number of email account you will need) just enter like 1000.

In the standard edition (free) you will have to open the account for each user.

[JamesRSC]

Long long ago, there was HiveMail which was actively developed by Chen (FireFly), one of the founding developers and administrators of vBulletin.org. I believe Kevin, a former Jelsoft employee also was on board with the project before it was abandoned. It was actually a quite nice system and integrated nicely with vBulletin, however, as it stands, vBMS is about the only script I've been able to locate.

You may wish to look into either SocketMail or perhaps @Mail. Pricing between the two varies quite a bit, however, it would provide you with something similar to what you're looking for. Both of these scripts have been around for a while and are actively updated/developed.

[markblair]

Originally Posted by ZenMaster

You can sign up for Google Apps for your domain standard edition. And when you sign up it will ask for "Number of users" (number of email account you will need) just enter like 1000.

In the standard edition (free) you will have to open the account for each user.

You know, I had looked at Google Apps briefly but I did not pay close enough attention to it. I figured too many things would have to be changed on the domain side for it to work properly. I signed up for it a few days ago and have been testing it and so far it works great. I like the idea that they offer other services too and not just e-mail. That should be appealing for my members.

Originally Posted by JamesRSC

You may wish to look into either SocketMail or perhaps @Mail. Pricing between the two varies quite a bit, however, it would provide you with something similar to what you're looking for. Both of these scripts have been around for a while and are actively updated/developed.

Thank you for the suggestions. I will check out both applications and if Google Apps doesn't work out I will give them a test run.

[JamesRSC]

No problem . GoogleMail is a great solution, however, there's no way to automate it that I've seen. The above-mentioned scripts, @Mail and SocketMail will allow you to automate the sign-up requests or create them manually.