Subdomain Hosting - revisited

[jechilt]

Greetings,

I did a search on the board and did not find what I was looking for.
We have an organization that we will be providing a reseller account. The organizational name will be (sudo) domain.org

The organization wants to provide a webpage and email to all their members. As a twist, the organization will have email accounts for all members too and the email domain (for cosmetic reasons) will be domainmail.org

What is the best way to set this up? We are thinking of creating a subdomain for each user as the best solution.
Therefore, joe gets an account and it becomes joe.domain.org with the email address of [email protected]
Is there a semi-smooth way to do this?

The bigger challenge and main purpose of the post...
We would like joe to be able to sign up for his account by himself. We currently use whoiscart but the current version does not support subdomain hosting. I have seen some other third party software but need a very inexpensive (free?) solution until the release of whoiscart that supports subdomain hosting.

Any suggestions or solutions?

Kind regards...

 

[jmstacey]

You can make your own php scripts that uses DirectAdmin's API to create accounts. With that method you would have full control over the variables of the account.

Your subdomain plan user.domain.com will not be a problem but the [email protected] will be as only the owner of domainmail.com will be able to create that user account. I'm not sure, but you might be able to do this during signup through the API.
In anycase the user would only have mail control over that user.domain.com domain (e.g. [email protected])