Need an expert help

[tomakali]

Hi Experts,

I love Round Cube.

I have a PHP/MySQL community website.
I would like to provide FREE email service for my members with Round Cube.
Can anyone help me in installation/configurations?

Regards,
David
//www.tomakali.net

[doni49]

I'm far from an expert, but I do have a decent understanding of some of what's going on.

What is your backend? i.e. are you on a cPanel hosted account, do you run your own server, etc.....

If you run your own server, what are it's specs--is it *nix, windows? What mail server program are you running?

You'll need to provide some way to create the accounts--RC won't create/delete accounts. It just allows users to log in to IMAP accounts that have been created. That is unless someone has developed a plug-in that I haven't come across yet.

[jimcavoli]

Though I'm newer on the forums, but I've been playing with RoundCube sine its first alpha, and I've set it up for all several different types of tasks.
A lot of what doni49 pointed out is very valid - especially in saying

You'll need to provide some way to create the accounts--RC won't create/delete accounts. It just allows users to log in to IMAP accounts that have been created. That is unless someone has developed a plug-in that I haven't come across yet.

However, you can dynamically create acounts. See http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imap-createmailbox.php for info on the PHP function responsible, and http://www.php.net/imap for the full set of IMAP functions.
It doesn't matter so much what OS your server's on, but whether you operate the IMAP server is critical. If you don't have full control, there's almost definitely a limit to the number of accounts, and it's almost guaranteed that you won't be able to create accounts dynamically yourself. It's not hard to set up your own IMAP server, but if you've already got your own running, it simplifies the process quite a bit, obviously.
I hope this will help get you started; feel free to shoot any more questions my way; I'll be watching the thread and my PM inbox.
 --Jim

[rosali]

Just for the case you are on hMailserver you may want to check out ...

http://roundcubeforum.net/forum/index.php?topic=2562.0

-Roland

[BlueC]

There seems to be a popular misconception on these forums that RC is an entire mail system. It isn't... it's just a web interface to allow users to view/send mail from an existing (IMAP) mail system.

[jimcavoli]

True - lots of threads to that effect; however, RC can easily work in with other systems that do so - that's just not what it is made for.