Help for senior project

[nbaumann]

Hey,

I'm a senior in college and my final project deals with improving the means of interaction with email. Essentially we're going to build/modify an email client. I've installed roundcube successfully on my server. I'm a strong PHP developer but I've never dealt with email before, aside for the mail() function (:cool:).

I would greatly appreciate if I could get pointed in the right direction. My immediate goals are the following:

• Users are able to create email accounts, how do I go about this in PHP? Where are email accounts stored on servers? How do interact with that to push new email accounts?
• The goal of this project is also to aggregate email from other sources, is it possible to add, let's say, a Yahoo or another external email account to roundcube so users can have multiple email addresses associated with their account?

Would roundcube even be the right tool for this? I really don't want to create an email client from scratch.

Thanks!

[SKaero]

1. You need to create a new account on the mail server.
2. Take a look at the accounts plugin myroundcube - Project Hosting on Google Code it should be able to do most of what you want to do, although you are going to have to do some modification to get yahoo to to work because yahoo doesn't officially support imap.

[nbaumann]

Hey thanks for your reply! I'm going go to look into those. I'm sure I'll have more questions later!