Register page error

[Lucas806]

I am making my own email service using the Roundcube IMAP client (obviously) and have created a register page so that users can sign up for their own email address using the Roundcube register plugin. If you go to http://minemail.me/mail/?_task=dummy&_action=register you can try to register but you will see an error. Could you please help me fix this?

[ABerglund]

I'm not familiar with the plugin, nor hmail. But if I'm interpreting the error message correctly, it would appear that the plugin is not detecting or communicating with the hmail database.

[Lucas806]

So, do you think I am required to install the hMail server? Because I haven't installed it but on the installation guide it didn't say anything about it needing hMail.

[ABerglund]

The plugin is trying to use hmail. I don't know if it supports any other mail back-end servers. You do need a mailserver of some sort for Roundcube to connect to - what server are you planning to use?

[Lucas806]

I am probably going to use hMail as that is what the plugin uses. I haven't set up the hMail server yet because I didn't realise that a back-end email server was a must have on Roundcube. Is hMail possible to setup on shared hosting?

[ABerglund]

hMail only runs on Windows. If your shared host is Windows, it may work. You may want to contact the hoster to verify that running a public mailserver is allowed under their ToS.

Just to make clear - Roundcube is a web-based IMAP client. Other than being web-based, it is no different than any other IMAP client such as Thunderbird, Outlook, etc. Roundcube can not send or receive mail all by itself any more than Thunderbird can. All clients need a mailserver to do the real mail work.