i am making a control panel...........

i am making a control panel. if it works, i will make it free for people to use. anyways, the only problem i am having is i want people to be able to add pop accounts thru the web interface. how would i connect to the pop server through the web interface though?

Depending on what mail server you have.
You need to know how the mail server to work before interfacing with it.

POP is just a protocol to get mail, it's really the mail server that manages the account. In sendmail, it got that virtualdomains and stuff. I haven't done too much of that but qmail & vpopmail is much easier to manage virtual domains. You just execute /home/vpopmail/bin/vadduser email@address.com and thats' it.

That's not all, you need to figure out how to bypass the webserver privileges as nobody and call programs or edit files as root.


Good Luck