Squirrel Mail question

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Addos

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I wonder if anybody can help me. I have a reseller package which I only use for myself and I don’t actually resell I just set up sites and administer them myself.
My problem is that I want to let some of my clients use Squirrel Mail but I can’t see how to set this up so that they can only login to Squirrel Mail and not at the same time be able to login to their account where the site is setup i.e. through DA. Is this possible or is this only available to those that would in effect have bought a package from me?
I have downloaded the little file that lets you read mail direct in Outlook Express and this works great in but as one new client I’m working on a site for will travel a lot I want to be able the let then access their mail through Squirrel Mail.
As I’m new to this I wonder if anybody can give me some clear instructions as to how to do this.
Thanks very much for any help
Brian
 
Squirrelmail is setup as a global application and will work on all domains and IP addresses. The only way to change this behaviour would require root access to the server.
So everybody should be able to access Squirrelmail already.

My problem is that I want to let some of my clients use Squirrel Mail but I can’t see how to set this up so that they can only login to Squirrel Mail and not at the same time be able to login to their account where the site is setup i.e. through DA.
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Do you mean limiting them so that they can only access squirrelmail through their domain and can't use the server IP or hostname? Not an easy solution.
I'm not quite fully understanding your question though.
 
Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
Sorry if I’m sounding confusing but I’ll try again.
Basically I want to let a client use Squirrel Mail but I don’t know how to let them have access without actually giving them the same username and password that would also give them access to their site through Direct Admin.

So, if I set up a site how can I have a separate username and password so that a client can login to use their Squirrel Mail but not to where their site account is setup ie DA.
Thanks
Brian
 
The primary pop3 account can't be changed, however you can create other pop3 mailboxes that use a different username and password from the user level of the owner of the domain you are creating the email address for.
http://site-helper.com/email.html#create

Hope that's what your were looking for.
 
Dang! a bit obvious once pointed out. This seems to be what I’m looking for. My only concern is that if I was to set up an new pop3 email account this way is there any way that the client can change the password? As it looks it seems to me that I could access their mail at anytime if I have been the one to set the password which is not very comforting for them.
Thanks again
Great help
Brian
 
Thanks very much this is perfect and I really appreciate your help. It was above and beyond the call of duty and saved me a lot of work.
Thank you again
Brian
 
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