Managing Accounts

Account Creation

User administration is done via the users command in the drop down menu. This will display a page that allows you to enter a user's name, or if you do not know it to search for them.

Once you have a user selected you can change a user's password, edit any of the user's information including forwarding, or delete them.

You can use this page to create new users also.

Domain administrators are able to manage the users for individual domains.

Per User Services

Access to the SurgeMail's POP / IMAP / SMTP facilities can be controlled on a per user basis by defining a series of access groups (g_access_group). Users can belong to one or more access groups. Each access group has a IP based wildcarded limitation of POP, IMAP and SMTP access and is defined in surgemail.ini. The domain manager is able to change these settings for the user accounts within their domain.

Membership of this group is checked against the "Access Type" setting (NWAuth field: mailaccess) in the authentication database.

eg. You could charge WebMail users for pop access privileges:

g_access_group group="paid_user" access_pop="*" access_imap="*" access_smtp="*"

g_access_group group="free_user" access_pop="webmail.svr.ip" access_imap="webmail.svr.ip" access_smtp="webmail.svr.ip"

in "Access Type" field "paid_user".

Account Status

The account status field in the authentication database allows the domain controller to easily enable / disable individual mail accounts. This is the "Account Status" setting in the Web Admin interface (NWAuth field: mailstatus). This setting can have one of the following values:

ok (or good), suspended, cancelled, banned, closed, paydue, payup

If the account status is "ok" or "paydue" access is not limited. For the other settings no login access is provided to POP, IMAP or SMTP and an appropriate login error message is shown.