Dima:
You can use OpenSSH on your server, and either putty or ttssh on your
wife's laptop for free. If she wants to use a text mail client, there are
alternatives to using webmail. From what I have seen, webmail can be a
real time sink to deal with.
Andy
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On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Dima wrote:
>
> Hi, there,
>
> I am trying to run my personal, home, little, cute
> mailserver in the basement. It runs, naturally, on
> Linux. This is Suse 8.0, patched, but it does not
> matter here. The server accepts only ssh, SMTP and
> HTTP. My wife wants to access her mail from her
> Windows 2000 laptop. With telnet out of question
> and no money for ssh from Datafellows, I figured
> that I need to put in some sort of web mail
> client, so that my wife will be able to access her
> mail.
>
> I found Webmail, which looks good but still is in
> his 0.X version and Hypermail, which is a good
> choice to display mailbox content, but cannot be
> used to send mail.... I hope, somebody has already
> had this problem before.
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1. How would you approach this problem; is web
> interface to mail a best choice here?
>
> 2. In the case of web mail interface, what is a
> best choice of software?
>
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