Thanks for the great feedback guys ...
Let me start by answering a few questions:
When do you plan to make it available?
today ?
Although i'd love to release it today we have to be realistic - this mod has very positive potential but it also has the potential to break webmail if not done correctly, this of course affects every client on your box .. so it can't be rushed, it has to be perfect the first time and include a graceful back out. --- it is well worth the wait .. Estimated time frame - see below.
What sort of price are you thinking of?
will you be making this available at a price or free?
Sorry this is not going to be free - the work involved is quite extensive -- i'm not talking about just a skin for horde but also a way of managing it through the Plesk control panel. ... As far as the sort of price, i have no idea at this time, it will not be anything outrageous, it will be a fair price for great work and functionality.
If at a price, can skins be purchased seperately?
I would much rather keep it simple by not imposing any type of restrictions such as number of domains or skins, but i have also considered having more than one look and feel such as a yahoo look, a squirrelmail look etc ... so perhaps there will be different strokes for different folkes.
What installation method are you using?
I would like to create either an add on such as the 4psa products or a module like the firewall,vpn etc modules, .. I am only just now looking through the Plesk SDK so i will have a better answer in a week or 2 once i have started the Plesk part.
For those interested It would great if you could keep this thread going and perhaps come up with a top 5 feature list for the management section in Plesk .. for example do you want to automatically match the Plesk skin chosen by the client or do you want to also be able to enforce one skin on all your clients etc... anything else?
Time frame --- i will know once i have gleaned some info from the Plesk SDK so i will keep you all informed ... At some point I will also need some beta testers to test a live email system, (my test server), and the Plesk add on before making it available -- so if anyone is interested?
Thanks again for all the feedback guys, and remember good things are worth waiting for.