Control panel for e-mail accounts only?

[JamesAB]

Can anyone recommend a web based control panel simply designed for managing a server's e-mail accounts?

 

We use cPanel a lot, but it seems like overkill when some people only need it for setting up e-mail accounts and changing passwords.

 

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

Thanks,

James

[magga]

You could build it into your client area and use the cPanel API, then your clients would never need to login to cPanel.

[JamesAB]

Actually, I'm looking to replace cPanel altogether.

 

We have some customers that need a custom LAMP setup (that we'll provide) however it would be nice to still give them a (web based) GUI for managing their e-mail accounts.

[logicsurge]

cPanel has a special mail only theme, it's called x3mail. You could use that.

[JamesAB]

cPanel has a special mail only theme, it's called x3mail. You could use that.

Thanks for the suggestions, but they would still be using a full cPanel install.We don't want cPanel to take over the whole machine because we are running very customized versions of apache/nginx, PHP and mySQL. I'm still hoping to find a lightweight solution that is designed solely for e-mail administration.

 

Thanks for your help,

James

[web2008]

Does anyone have a cPanel API for this?

[laszlof]

The cPanel API is just a set of functions/hooks to be able to write code that interacts directly with cPanel/WHM.

 

Here is the documentation:

 

http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/AutomationIntegration/

 

Specifically you'd want to look at the "Email::addpop" function and simular provided with their API1 module.

 

http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/ApiDocs/Api1/ApiEmail#Email_addpop

 

 

To the OP, You're probably best of writing something yourself (or hiring someone to do so) if you do not want to use cPanel. It would be fairly easy to write a PHP frontend to managing email accounts.

[MediaPlayStudios]

Hi,

 

My I suggest these as alternatives since they don't require cPanel/WHM or any Control Panel at all. The only thing they require is PHP & MySQL. since you are just looking for a GUI for your customers to just be able to read and send email

 

Atmail - http://www.atmail.com

RoundCube - http://www.roundcube.net/

 

Or you can look into Google Apps as an option