login for mail

[dareksbs]

Hi,

Basically I want to create a username for my customers rather than using an email address to login into webmail, and the question is how I can do this with directadmin ?

So just to make sure that everyone know what I talking about.

Normally when you create an email on directadmin you have to login to roundcube with your email and password - thats not safe... because if someone has a simple password everyone can sent a botnet to hack it...

I want to create a username that will be connected to an email address, where I can find a plugin or how I can change it to have a option to create a username ??

Thanks for help

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

Then you probably need a webmail which allows you to do that. That is not what Directadmin allows to do from a box. Probably Afterlogic can do that, not sure. Please try it and update us with results.

 

[scsi]

Why do you think logging in with an email is not safe? That makes no sense at all. Your logic is very poor.

 

[nobaloney]

The issue, as pointed out by user zEitEr, is that this isn't a DirectAdmin problem. The problem occurs because virtual email accounts, created for each user, may duplicate the same name local part across different domains. And the mail client has to know which is the domain name.

Plesk used to do it this way (maybe still does): They created mailboxes where the mailbox name was the localpart plus the password. And in webmail (probably in other clients too) they modified the code so the username and the password were appended before doing the login. Of course a lot of other modifications were necessary to make sure the password wasn't shown in any mailbox list. And the mail clients had to be modified to make sure the username+password wasn't shown as a default email address.

Their method wasn't that simple.

Another way (webmail example) would be to use a webmail client which gets the domain name from the host-header and appends @EXAMPLE.COM then sends the full login username to the IMAP server. Simpler, but then you can't use https for connecting. In my opinion, not using https for webmail is less secure than using a full email address.

Jeff