UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V5 Mod Questions Offer free web-based hotmail-style "@yourforum.com" email addresses! (Simple Hack!)

Offer Hotmail-style @yourforum.com or @yourforum.every1.net email addresses right from the forum summary page!
It'll help you boost traffic, build user loyalty, and collect demographics.
What do you need?
If you don't own a domain you can get [email protected]

If you own your domain, and are able to make DNS and MX record changes on your account you can get [email protected].
If you don't know if you can do this, ask your Webhost if they are able to do this for you.

First you have to sign up to an external service that will handle the web-based email client. I suggest 'Everyone network's Plug-in-Email' , it's very easy to set up, you can put your own banners up in the hotmail.com-style layout (which you can customize). Each user gets 6MB of space!
Sign Up here: Everyone network's Free Email service


When you are an everyone network member, login and choose the 'plug-in-email' service, and set everything up according to their instructions. For now, just to the quick set up, get back to designing the system later. If you own the domain, do the "Change email address" setup before you procede.

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open Ultimate.cgi

FIND:

print<
At the bottom of that section (about half way down the screen) there is a line that reads:

$BorderTop

Right ABOVE this line, insert this chunk of code...

################ Free Email Hack #################

Email Username: Email Password: Do you want a free "yoursite.com" web-based Email address? Click here to sign up!

################ Free Email Hack #################

Inside that chunk of code, find two URLs which are:
http://yoursite.mail.everyone.net/email/scripts/loginuser.pl
http://yoursite.mail.everyone.net/email/scripts/useragreement.pl

Adjust these URLs to match your accounts URLs, which you will find in the Everyone.net control panel under "Add It!", the URLS will be part of some HTML code given by everyone.net you will not be using this html code, but do be sure to have the same urls in the code above as in the code given by everyone.net.

You should also change that "yoursite.com" bit to say your domain.com, or yourforum.every1.net

mailbox.gif :
Put it in your ubb (noncgi) directory.

That's it! If you have any problems please post on this forum.


This message has been edited by Keeper on January 12, 2001 at 09:08 PM

I've updated the code, it's better now.
This new code is the one used by http://www.gaters.net (example)

This message has been edited by Keeper on January 12, 2001 at 09:18 PM

the code he posted above has errors....here is good code:

E-mail Username: E-mail Password: Do you want a free 6 meg "yourdomain" web-based e-mail address? Click Here to Sign Up!

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www.xtreme-forums.com

This is great this is. I am buying my own domain name just to use it properly!
What I am wondering is how do I get the box to appear at the bottom of all the forums?

I just want to say I run my own mail server for my own stuff but this free mail company offers alot of great stuff and you can even design there pages to match your website it is perl I have it all up and running on my site and I know my visitors will love it.

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I got a question on the script above I changed the colors to match my forums but it puts a boarder all the way around the sign up forum in the same color as my fonts I would like to get rid of that boarder so it looks cleaner because I already have news fader and inbox at top can someone tell me how to do this.

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Is there a link to your site so I could see the problem?


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http://www.colonialtrades.com/Gaters

Ok, I went to your site, it looks fine. Did you fix it already?

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http://www.colonialtrades.com/Gaters