Accessing Email Through Website

  • I was wondering if there is a way for certain people to login to their emails via a wordpress site. What I’m trying to accomplish is this: I’ve created a website for my church (www.parrishfbc.com) and would like to make it where the pastor, minister of music, etc. who have emails (…@parrishfbc.com) associated with the site can login somewhere on the site and check their emails instead of going to bluehost (hosting site) logging in on that site and checking it there.
    I understand there may not be a way to actually view their email on the site, but if there’s some way to simply login on the website and it forward them to the appropriate email account at bluehost, that’d be great.

    Thank you in advance for your help.

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  • This is an example of a webmail plugin that is free and hosted on the WordPress plugin repository. It may meet your needs or you may want to expand your search a little, possibly looking to see if there are paid solutions.

    You will still require an email service to provide you with email unless you can enable email through your Cpanel and your DNS and MX records are configured correctly.

    I wish you success with your project.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/mailcwp/

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    I wouldn’t use WP as a mail gateway unless it were an SSL connection, but really, do you want to be in the business of serving mail?

    Would it make more sense to maybe use WordPress to authenticate with say OAuth and then have a link to redirect to that users actual hosted email?

    Thread Starter harbison32

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    Bob, i tried mailcwp and did not like it at all. I had it set-up on a “hidden/test” to see how well it worked. I got it to work with one of the email accounts, but when i tried to add the other accounts, it didn’t let me. It kept telling me it couldn’t connect to the server, but I know I was entering them right because one of them were working.

    Luke, that would work. I did not think of taking that route. Does WP-OAuth work with Bluehost’s email?

    WP-OAuth plugin use would be of more use for login and register in WP using existing services that support it.

    If you are looking for alternatives, you can actually set up your Pastor and the others on Gmail using your domain name, that way they can use gmail webmail and still retain the @parrishfbc.com email addresses. Everyone should know how to use gmail and if not it should be easy to teach. People use gmail for that all the time.

    Thread Starter harbison32

    (@harbison32)

    Bob, how would you set them up on Gmail with the same @parrishfbc.com email address. Would that not cause an issue with those email addresses already setup through Bluehost?

    Sorry for so many questions, I mainly know html and css. This situation requires more skills than I have.

    @harbison32

    It would just be MX records setup in your DNS for your domain.

    https://support.google.com/quickfixes/answer/6252374?hl=en

    Thread Starter harbison32

    (@harbison32)

    Luke,

    Thank you so much, I will try this out later tonight and let you know how it turns out.

    @harbison32

    Your welcome.

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