This articles describes in detail about the Integration of Mail Only Hosting (Shared/Web Hosting) and Mail Only Subscriptions and Management.
This article applies to MachPanel v6 and above.
Pre-Requisites
- MachPanel Control Server has been installed, if not then follow below KB article:
http://kb.machsol.com/Knowledgebase/Article/50261
- MachPanel Remote Server has been installed, if not then follow below KB article:
http://kb.machsol.com/Knowledgebase/Article/50262
STEP-1: Integrating Mail Service with MachPanel Web Hosting:
- Open MachPanel Control Panel Website (You can do it by opening MachPanel Control Server Configuration Studio and then navigating to Configure > Control Panel Website, and then clicking on the URL in it). Log in with the provider credentials.
- Add Web Hosting server Group if not added already. Navigate to Home > Service Director > Web Hosting > Server group and then click on Add Server Group. For more details click Add Web Hosting Server Group
- Now Click on Server Group Name, new tab "Web Hosting Servers" will open and you will also see Services in options column.
- Click Services in the options menu against the desired server then click on Add Service button.
- To add Mail Service to your Hostmatic/Web server, select Mail from the drop down list.
- Now, select Provider for the Mail service and provide necessary details.
- Select Provider Mail Enable
- Provide necessary details
- Account Limits
- Maximum Mailboxes
- Current Number of Mailboxes
- DNS Records
- Select Provider Merak Mail Server 9.2.1
- Provide necessary detail
- Mail Setting
- Web Service
- Mail Server Physical Path
- Account Limits
- Maximum Mailboxes
- Current Number of Mailboxes
- DNS Records
- Select Provider Smarter Mail 6.x
- Provide necessary detail
- Mail Setting
- Web Service
- Mail Server Physical Path
- Username
- Password
- Account Limits
- Maximum Mailboxes
- Current Number of Mailboxes
- DNS Records
- You can Check "Run SmarterMail under IIS" and then Provide necessary details such as "Website Running as", "IP", "Port" and "Hostname Identifier".
- Select Provider Smarter Mail 8.x
- Provide necessary detail
- Mail Setting
- Web Service
- Mail Server Physical Path
- Username
- Password
- Account Limits
- Maximum Mailboxes
- Current Number of Mailboxes
- DNS Records
- You can Check "Run SmarterMail under IIS" and then Provide necessary details such as "Website Running as", "IP", "Port" and "Hostname Identifier".
- Select Provider Smarter Mail 11.x/12.x/13.x
- Provide necessary detail
- Mail Setting
- Web Service
- Mail Server Physical Path
- Username
- Password
- Account Limits
- Maximum Mailboxes
- Current Number of Mailboxes
- DNS Records
- You can Check "Run SmarterMail under IIS" and then Provide necessary details such as "Website Running as", "IP", "Port" and "Hostname Identifier".
- Hit Test Service for each service and if you get Successful message in Green then integration of that service is successful.
STEP-2: Creating Mail Only Product/Package:
- To add a Product as we added Mail Only - Shared Hosting navigate to path: Home >> Service Plans >>Hosting Products. Select Customer Product Listing tab for Customer plan.
- Click Add New Product button as shown below:
- Now provide basic details such as Server Group, Product name(say "Mail Only Product") and select Package Type Mail Only.
- Under Resources tab, Provide Resources for the Mail Hosting. Provide Following fields:
- Maximum Mail Domain
- Maximum Main Domain aliases
- Maximum Mailboxes
- Maximum Email aliases
- Maximum Mailbox size per Mailbox (MB)
- Maximum mails redirects
- Maximum mailing lists
- Maximum mailing list recipients
- Maximum mail auto-responders
- Select Payment Cycles and Payment Groups and click Next.
- Add Price Group and click Next.
- Associate Add-on (if any) and then Finish to create the Package.
STEP-3: Provisioning and Selling of Mail Only - Shared Hosting Plan:
- In this step you have to sell and provision the Mail Only Plan to the customer. Select Shared Hosting under "Service".
- Select the Plan under "Package" accordingly.
STEP-4: Management of Mail Only Subscriptions:
- Navigate to following path to manage Subscription as here we manage Mail Only: Home >> Service Director >> Web Hosting >> Hosting Accounts
- Select Mail Only Subscription tab as shown below:
- Now you can Manage Emails as shown below:
- You can Turn On/Off by navigating Turn On/Off from Email Management as shown below:
- You can Manage Mail Domain Alias as shown below:
- You can Add Mail Domain Alias as by clicking Add Main Domain Alias as shown below:
- You can Manage Email Accounts as shown below:
- You can Add Email Accounts by navigating Email Accounts > Add Email Account as shown below:
- You can Manage Email lists as shown Below:
- You can Add Email List by navigating Email Lists > Add Email Lists as shown below:
- You can Manage Email Groups as shown below:
- You can Add Email Groups by navigating Email Groups > Add Email Group as shown below:
