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E-mail Site Tutorials?


Viper23

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I do not know if this has been talked about before or not, but I was wondering if anyone might know how to make an e-mail website. Much like yahoo and msn.

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Start with some mail servers, read up about mail server security, depending on the mail server software used you'll need to find out how you automate account creation for people signing up. Things like sending mail and checking the inbox will be pretty standard, if you want folders like sent items, trash, etc that's up to you to set up with a database or filesystem. If you want an address book that will be easiest to do with a database. You'll also want to implement something like a captcha to stop spam bots from signing up for accounts and sending out spam automatically. Attachments are a whole other issue. You'll get much better performance across the board if you use compiled C programs to do everything instead of server scripts like PHP.

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