Hi, there,
I feel obliged to share my solution for remote
mail access (original message is included below).
But before I do it I want to say thank you for all
advises, public and private, on how to set it up.
Thank you! Your generous help aided me greatly and
saved a lot of valuable time.
I finally chose Squirrel Mail over SSL. The reason
for this was pure marketing: the intreface looks
very close to other web mail services, like Yahoo
and Hotmail and others which helps customer
adjustment. In addition, Squirrel Mail has a
mature collection of various plugins, which make
it quite competitive. I especially like spell
checker, which has a bit unusual interface (but
not too unusual) and I actually prefer it over the
one at say Yahoo.
Squirrel Mail, naturally, uses IMAP, and I did set
up an IMAP sever behind a firewall, which is not
available from outside. I took the simplest
wu-imap I could find. As a side benefit, this IMAP
server does not have any config files, everything
needs to be compiled in. I did recompile it to go
to $HOME/mail/ by default to store mailboxes,
instead of just $HOME/ as it does out of the box.
So all works nicely, and if anybody needs an email
account on a side, please let me know :-) Happy
New Year!
----- Original message -----
> 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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Dimitri (Dima) Shcherban
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