On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 10:33:30AM +0200, FTP wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 06:25:52PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
> > OpenWebmail is very charming because of how very little it needs to
> > bring into base OpenBSD to get working. I set it up for a school of
> > about 200 students (...). I must say, at this point, being not
> > written in PHP is starting to look Really Nice, too.
>
> bottom line, your suggestion is to stick with openwebmail (if I don't
> want to intsall IMAP) and run 'insecure' apache? Would that be a
> 'good' solution for a small e-mail server?
Over here, I use Hastymail+Dovecot IMAP server. Dovecot is extremely
easy to setup and Works For Me, though it does not appear to work for
everyone.
Hastymail is a basic webmail application, and about as sane as webmail
applications get. Notably, it does not support sending HTML mail, does
not use Javascript, and can - but need not - use cookies; what's better,
it actually has a thought-out and configurable security model.
The interface is basic, but functional, and the only thing required is a
couple of flat files and an IMAP server. (No SQL is a Good Thing, too -
not to say that SQL isn't cool, but SQL is *not* a filesystem, despite
what the LAMP crowd seems to think...)
The only thing that might be construed as 'missing' is PGP support, but
while I really like PGP, the whole idea of PGP over webmail has too many
problems to classify as a Good Idea.
Not being able to send HTML mail does make some people less happy,
though. That, and it's written in PHP - and my opinion of PHP is
certainly no better than Nick's.
Joachim
P.S. Not to be a nazi, but trimming quotes is a good idea...
P.P.S. Flames invited over Excess Capitalization and the above P.S.
