Mailbox

[benslayton]

Can I get a Php mailbox just like gmail or yahoo or something?

[Twey]

http://www.horde.org/

[benslayton]

Thanks but I only see .tar.gz I have Windows.....

[Twey]

It's written in PHP.

[benslayton]

So I downloaded it and then upload it to my server?

[Twey]

Best idea is to upload it then extract it, yes. However, some webservers won't give you a means to do this, so you'll have to extract it first and then upload it.

[benslayton]

Ok I found a different one. It tells me to create a file and CHMOD it to 007, 777, or 667. how do I CHMOD a file and which # do I Use?

[Twey]

chmod stands for change mode, and it specifies which permissions are set on a file. There are three digits, which stand for user (the user who created the file), group (users in the same group as the file [owning user and group are set with chown]) and world (everybody on the same machine; also people accessing the file via a webserver, but the write permission has no effect).
Each of those digits is composed of the following bitset:
1 - execute
2 - write
4 - read

0 means no permissions; nobody from the specified group is allowed to touch the file. 7 is 1 + 2 + 4: all permissions, anybody can do what they like with the file. 6 is 2 + 4; the file is readable and writable to those people, but not executable... you get the idea. So 007 means: user and group can't do jack, but everyone else can do what they like (which is ruddy daft).

FTP provides a CHMOD command, I believe. Failing that, log in to your server using SSH and execute the command directly.

[benslayton]

Ok done some reasearch on what SSH means, I understand what CHMOD is now but I dont understand how to do it can I use dreamweaver. I also found this www.ece.osu.edu/ssh.

[Twey]

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~s.../download.html
That's a Windows SSH client. Note that your host must have an SSH server installed, and your account must have permission to use it.

Dreamweaver? No.

prompt$ ftp yoursite.com
Connected to yoursite.com (127.0.0.1).
220 FTP server ready
Name (yoursite.com:youruser): yourusername
331 Password required for yourusername.
Password: (enter password here)
230 User yourusername logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> cd public_html
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> chmod 755 file
200 SITE CHMOD command successful.
ftp> quit