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WebmailASP: Send and receive email from any computer on the web. Install webmail on your server or upload it to your web-hosting account. General questions

You can send and receive emails with the online demo, but you cannot download it. The reason there is not trial download version is that the product is made entirely of source code. Nothing is compiled or copy protected.

How can I install the WebmailASP application? (I never installed an ASP application.)

Active Server Pages (ASP) are special web pages that have instructions not only for the browser but also for the web server itself (the machine where the pages are hosted.) For example: saving and retrieving messages from a database is work done by the server, not by the browser. When you purchase WebmailASP you get the ASP pages and the database. You install the webmail software by copying all those files to the host, which can be your own web server or a web-hosting account.

Please check also the server requirements page.

Additionaly, as with any other application you install yourself, you should carefuly read the Readme file included in the downloaded ZIP and follow it step by step.

Is it possible to change the pages from english to other languages?

Since you have access to the entire source, it is possible, but it is not very easy. WebmailASP, as you get it after purchase, supports only english in the interface (naturally, other languages can be used for the messages themselves.)

What version of ASP was used to write your webmail software?

WebmailASP is written in standard ASP 3.0. A .NET server is not required, although the application, like any other ASP 3.0 application, will work just fine on a .NET server. There are no plans at the moment to convert WebmailASP to ASP.NET. The way we see it, that would just make the list of requirements longer, without adding any benefit for the webmaster or the end user. If you think there is a strong reason to create a .NET version, please send it to our support contact.

Installation

Send us a request, and we promise to investigate. As new versions are released, we will try to offer support to all popular email components.

Can I install WebmailASP on SUN ONE ASP (was Chili!Soft)?

Yes, if you have version 4.0 or later of SUN ONE ASP. Older versions, such as version 3.6 don't support regular expressions: Match Object, RegExp Object, etc.

Configuration

Make changes to the outputLoginForm function in the renderLogin.asp file. You don't really need to know ASP; the function is mostly HTML.

I want to bypass the login page or to replace it with my own login code, how do I do that?

The exact solution depends on your exact situation, but we can give you some general information that should help you with your ASP coding.

In our product the page default.asp does double duty: if it does not recognize the visitor, it shows the login form; if it recognizes her, it renders the actual webmail application. Your code will have to make the visitor recognizable in order to skip the login form, and this is done through setting the right cookies.

First install the application and create a "testing user" with which you can login and logout. Then create a new testing page (test.asp.) This page will have the following contents:

<%
response.cookies("WebmailUserId") = 8976543
%>

<a href="default.asp">Enter webmail</a>

Now if you load test.asp in the browser, and then click the "Enter webmail" link, you should bypass the login form and go directly to the actual application.

This test.asp page we just created is problably far from what you actually have in mind, but it should give you all the information you need to go on and create your own login system or integrate with existing systems, etc.

Can I make WebmailASP run inside a frame?

WebmailASP uses frames to layout toolbar, folders tree, folder listing, etc. The main file of the application, where the frameset is defined, is default.asp. If, additionally, you make default.asp run inside of a frame for some frameset that you have already in your site, the application will not work. If you really need the extra frame or frames, add them to default.asp. Edit that frameset and add the frames you need. Make sure you use the name parameter for each new frame you define and give them names different from the names already being used by WebmailASP.

Runtime

Absolutely not. The webmail software is totally self-contained. There is no dependency on my servers or on my site. You can confirm this a couple of ways: since you will get the source, you can check the code yourself; or you can do a local installation from a machine cut off from the internet and verify that it works fine and that it does not try to communicate with any other external site.

Does WebmailASP work with the mail server xyz (insert mail server name here)?

WebmailASP works with any brand of POP and SMTP email servers, as long as they implement the protocol correctly. We are not aware of any particular one that doesn't.

Regardless of brand, there may be problems connecting to a given server if the server is not configured to let the web server machine connect to it. Check if the administrators of that server are blocking external access, or if a firewall is blocking the email port.

For more information on issues regarding communication with the POP server, see the Usage FAQ. These issues are documented in the usage FAQ because adding an account and its POP server to WebmailASP is not really part of its installation; it is something that, depending on configuration, the users themselves will do.

Does WebmailASP work with IMAP?

No. The main difference between IMAP and POP is that received messages are supposed to be left stored in the IMAP server, but are supposed to be moved out of the POP server. WebmailASP and its database were created to provide an alternative place to archive the POP messages. In priciple, the IMAP messages should not need another place to be stored.

Once I install WebmailASP on my site, how can users be added to the database?

Currently there are two possible modes (although you get the source code of the webmail software, so you can make changes):

• The current public mode of the demo where anyone can add him/herself to the database of users.
• A restricted mode where the administrator adds the users directly to the mdb, and only those can enter the system.

Will the user registration process in WebmailASP also create a POP account at the same time?

Currently this functionality is not supported. The WebmailASP application is purely an email client. However, if you want to add some server-side code to implement this, you can, since you will have all the source code of WebmailASP. Contact us if you need help.

Your question not answered here? Try the Usage FAQ or the Troubleshooting page