Ray:
I'm not looking for POP3 or IMAP support - I know that Netscape and IE have mail
support built in. The problem with POP3 (and perhaps IMAP, I'm not familiar
with it) is that the mail client downloads the email to the user's local machine
and they read it from there. If the user travels, they will have to somehow
access that machine to access mail that has already been read.
With a browser based email system, all the user needs is a regular web browser -
nothing special - no support for Java or anything else. The mail is presented
to the user by way of HTML web pages - the mail stays at the Linux server - the
user only reads it through the browser, via HTML pages. This way, the user can
move from one machine to another and still access their mail - old or new, by
pointing their web browser to (hopefully my Linux machine) and access it through
the browser.
-Rod
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 05:13 PM 2/6/99 -0500, Rod Gotty wrote:
> >Can someone please refer me to where I can get software for Linux that provides
> >browser based email services for Linux.
> [rest deleted]
>
> Support for pop3 and imap are included in every standard Linux distribution.
> This should be enough to permit users to access e-mail from Netscape or IE.
> Or are you looking for something more specific than this?
>
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