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[Max Gribov]

Shadab Wadiwala wrote:
> Hello friends,
>
> I m working on a minor project using PHP/MySQL in my college.
> I have been assigned a tough task to do.
> The project is a web-based email service on the lines of Yahoo Mail 
> and Gmail.
>
> Actually I need to create an online POP3 account and an SMTP account 
> of an end-user in the email server using PHP.

This implies that both POP/IMAP and SMTP server share same backend for 
authentication/storage - LDAP or SQL would be easiest because you can 
easily change those in PHP.

There are plenty of documents describing how to set something like this 
up. This sounds like 50% programming project and 50% sysadmin project.

Good luck.


> I don't have any experience in online POP3 and SMTP accounts creation 
> and not aware with the PHP codes to perform the specific task.
>
> So if u know any thing regarding the above mentioned task so pls help me.
>
> Thank you
>
>
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