Website, Hoisting, and email accounts. Need some advice

[floodhound2]

I am finishing up the details on my website and this problem is lingering. I want you’re judgment on how I can address the following:

Basically my website is hosted by a company that allocated me some 500 email accounts. The problem I have is that my email accounts (people) must go to a different website to login. I don't want this!

I am trying to retrieve the information from there (the company that host my website) webpage and bring it to my webpage that I made for emails. Can I make a script to do this or what ideas do you all have.

Please give a brief example if you have one.

[mo2332]

Well I've read your problem , and dont think it you can use a script to do that. Do they like have a script for the emails thatr you h ad to upload for them? Or did you just get them and the host host them? Well if so Then you have to talk to them.I hope i helped you

[ayu]

well if the login page is a simple form with post method, you can just make another page and make the form point to the same file...

for example...login.php at their site posts the login info to "validate.php"


you could make your own page with the same input names and make it post to the same page.

as in...

if Login.php looked something like this (had to remove all the tag signs cause of filter)

form action="validate.php" method="post"
input type="text" name="login"
input type="password" name="pass"
/form

then your page could look like this

form action="http://sitename.com/pathtovalidate/validate.php" method="post"
input type="text" name="login"
input type="password" name="pass"
/form

[CommonStray]

yea and you have to make sure the field names match the ones on the login site so that the values can pass through the script and queries...

isnt that remote execution anyways?

im tired so i m not thinking straight

[bad_brain]

you could use Squirrelmail for example:
http://www.squirrelmail.org/
simply create a subdomain like mail.floodhound.com (floodhound.com/mail works too of course) and upload the files there...the configure script needs shell access but you can also edit the config.php file by hand. the only problem you might run into is that safe mode is set to off in php.ini....but it's worth a try.

[floodhound2]

Thanks everyone i will give some of this stuff a try this weekend