On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:24:25PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > Hi, > > I am an old time ELM user, now upgraded to MUTT. I have over 4,000 email > files (each containing multiple emails) in my Mail directory. This is > because I've been collecting emails since 1991 and want to keep them > online so I can refer to them. > > However I would like to join the rest of the world and use a web based email > client.
Why? > > The problems that I have are: > > 1. It needs to be able to access them email in the mutt files interchangeably. A local imapd. At least uw-imapd and dovecot support a "pre-authenticated" mode of running the imapd by the user. Thus you can connect with mutt from either localhost or with a remote host with ssh/pubkey without typing/storing a password. > > 2. It needs to work on a web server running Apache 2. Shouldn't be an issue. > > 3. If it uses IMAP, it needs to have support for SSL. Shouldn't be an issue. This is a matter of setting up apache properly. Note the limitations that a proper SSL setup has (no name-based virtual hosting) > > I tried roundcube and found that it has two problems that affect me: > > a. It does not see my old email files. This could be an IMAP problem > or another problem. I turned off email caching in roundcube to prevent > double copies of the files. What imapd? Can you give more details? > > b. If I go into folder list on on roundcube, it crashes due to using too > much cpu time. I have a slow computer, but 128 seconds is a long time. uw-imapd is generally very unefficient with large mbox folders, as you probably know. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
