At 11:40 AM 1/26/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>Make that a third motion... (and if you count my customers, add another
>thousand or so!)
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>--Gary Walworth
> Beachlink
> Kitty Hawk, NC
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>> I second this. I have been waiting for this feature since I dropped
>> Post.Office!!!
>>
>>
>>
>> Dale and Others:
>>
>> Ipswitch, makers of Imail has just released version 5 which
>> includes support
>> for ODBC auth and other features.
>>
>> www.ipswitch.com
>>
>> This is what we will be upgrading to, in addition to currently eval'ing
>> Emerald.
>>
>> I hope Dale might find the time to possibly incorporate Imail as
>> an External
>> System like NTMail.
>>
>> Mike K
>>
>>
>> Below is the ODBC info from IMail support for Dales' perusal:
>>
>> EXTERNAL DATABASE INTERFACE
>> ===========================
>>
>> Description
>> -----------
>> IMail 5.0 provides a means of interfacing with external
>> database through a dynamic link library that is defined
>> for each host.
>>
>> This external user database is designed to be used with
>> ODBC, but in reality it can support any method of external
>> database by modification of the "odbcuser.dll". The
>> complete source for this DLL is provided upon request
>> from Ipswitch or on our web site.
>>
>> IMail supports the use of up to 10 different DLL's. Using
>> our provided DLL, you can have an unlimited number of
>> tables within a DLL. Each DLL is loaded on demand and
>> remains loaded after first load until all applications
>> using IMAILSEC.DLL are stopped.
>>
>> Configuration
>> -------------
>> Specifically, in the IMail control panel applet, Global
>> tab, press the Virtual Host Admin button. For each
>> defined host you have a choice of one of three user
>> databases:
>>
>> 1. IMail User Database
>> 2. local NT User Database
>> 3. External User Database
>>
>> When you select the "External User Database", the
>> "Configure..." button is activated. Pressing the configure
>> button presents a dialog where the external database is
>> defined.
>>
>> The first option is where you specify the FULL pathname
>> to the DLL that exports the following functions:
>>
>> GetUserEntry
>> SetUserEntry
>> DeleteUserEntry
>> AuthorizeUser
>> GetFirstUserEntry
>> GetNextUserEntry
>>
>> (refer to the "odbcuser.h" file for full explanation of
>> these functions.)
>>
>> The second option is where you specify the ODBC System
>> Data Source Name for the database where the user information
>> is stored.
>>
>> The third option is where you specify the table name for
>> the data. This defaults (if the field is blank or contains
>> "[default]") to the host name with periods replaced by
>> underscores.
>>
>> These three options are written to a registry entry under
>> the domain named "AuthDatabaseDLL". The three entries are
>> concatenated with an asterisk (*) as the separator.
>>
>> Default ODBC Tables
>> -------------------
>> The default ODBC table consists of 7 entries:
>>
>> USERID - text
>> PASSWORD - text
>> FULLNAME - text
>> USERDIR - text
>> MAILADDR - text
>> MAXSIZE - integer
>> MAXMSGS - integer
>> FLAGS - integer
>>
>> The provided implementation expects these entries to be
>> in sequence. Additional information (after flags) MAY
>> exist in the table.
>>
>> Modification of the ODBCUSER.DLL
>> --------------------------------
>> The source for ODBCUSER.DLL is provided in the ZIP
>> file "odbcuser.zip".
>>
>> Any language may be used to write the ODBCUSER.DLL
>> provided it exports the necessary routines with the
>> proper arguments and calling stack type. The provided
>> source and project files are written for MS Visual C++
>> 4.1. Please refer to "odbcuser.h" and "codbc.cpp"
>> for additional information.
>>
>> Table modifications may be made in "CreateTable",
>> "InsertUser", "UpdateUser", and "GetUser". Note
>> that entry sequence is defined in "CreateTable"
>> and "GetUser".
>>
>> Note that this DLL can be named anything you wish
>> and the name of the dll must be relayed to IMail
>> as specified under "Configuration" above.
>>
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