Posting Login information to gain Webmail Access

Posts: 766 · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 2:17 pm

One of our clients has just inquired about code that would automatically log you into webmail. We don't have any examples of this, nor have I ever seen it done on our network, so I thought I might post here and see if anyone has coded anything like it.

Specifically, here's what would be required:

the ability to click on a link that takes the browser directly into the webmail interface at their domain name. I *think* this can be done via an http post of the login and password information?

Posts: 4 · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 4:04 pm

Does this get you what you need ????

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="Form1" method="post" action="http://mail.DOMAIN.com/login.cgi">
<input type=hidden name="page" value="login">
<input type=hidden name="userid" value="root@DOMAIN.com">
<input type=hidden name="passwd" value="PASSWORD">
<input type=submit value="Web Mail" name="">
</form>
</body>
</html>

Posts: 2 · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 6:28 pm

Exactly what we needed. Thanks.

Frederic

Posts: 2 · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 6:31 pm

Is there any way to check for presence of new email as well as count of emails in INBOX?

Frederic

Posts: 766 · Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 7:38 pm

That unfortunately wouldn't be possible. The only web access you have to the Inbox and information contained within is through the webmail interface.

Posts: 68 · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:52 pm

Just curios if there are any plans to have a new e-mail interface or something like that?

Posts: 766 · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:10 pm

Our current interface is a product of Ipswitch and comes bundled with Imail Server. We support this on over 30 shared webhosting servers, so we're probably not going to make any significant changes to this offering in the near future.

Posts: 1 · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 2:59 pm

I just tried using the code that Jamie posted and got this when accessing that page.. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Am I supposed to use a Cold Fusion extension or asp or .htm?

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Posts: 126 · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 7:55 pm

You should be able to use the code with any extension, but it is basically an HTML form so I would recommend using .htm or .html

Also within http://mail.DOMAIN.com/login.cgi, make sure to replace mail.DOMAIN.com with your mail server.

Posts: 766 · Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 6:18 am

Anyone have any success with this? I can't try it myself because I'm visiting relatives in the South this week. Pls post here if you can get that code snippet to work.

As a side note, I didn't originally post that - one of our clients did!

Posts: 13 · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 3:44 am

I tested the script and it worked fine for me, I used a .htm extension, but it shouldn't matter.

getjoel, make sure you change the hidden fields to be your domain, username, and password, also, keep in mind that passwords are case sensitive.

Posts: 1 · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:36 pm

Hi guys,

Thanks for that script. When I try it I get this error:

You don't have permission to access /login.cgi on this server.

Can anyone help with this?

Thanks

Posts: 1029 · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:52 pm

They're using SmarterMail now, not iMail.