Check with your hosting company. It's not that difficult for them to give you IMAP access also.
You could write a server-based application that would retrieve your users' mail via POP3 and then store it in your users' home directory so it could be accessed from any computer via a web interface. But you would merely be reinventing IMAP!! --John On Monday 05 July 2004 02:22 pm, I.A. Gray wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for all your info. The hosting company I use > gives us POP3 accounts. To be honest I don't have a > clue about IMAP- I've only heard the name, and don't > understand the way it works. I assume because we > only have POP3 accounts, we have to use a POP3 > webmail service. We want all our customers to be > able to have a webmail service so that they can > check their POP3 accounts from any computer round > the world. And, of course it has to be in PHP- what > other language is there? > > Thanks again, > > Ian > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Hicks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 July 2004 18:01 > To: I.A. Gray; Jose Leon; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP Web Mail > > On Monday 05 July 2004 07:33 am, I.A. Gray wrote: > > Thanks- looked at Squirrel Mail. Looks really > > good, however we use POP3- I don't think Squirrel > > Mail uses POP3 does it? > > Most if not all web-based mail clients use IMAP > since a web-based (i.e. browser-based) client can't > store the received mail on the local computer the > way a POP3-based email client does. > > Besides, the whole reason for using a web-based > client is to be able to log in from various > computers. Why would you not want to store the mail > back on the server the way IMAP does. POP3 delivers > the mail to the client and then drops it. > > --John > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jose Leon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 05 July 2004 12:09 > > To: I.A. Gray > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP Web Mail > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > Does anyone know a good PHP-based (free if > > > possible) web mail other than UebiMiau that they > > > would recommend? > > > > Why not Squirrel Mail? > > > > http://www.squirrelmail.org > > > > Regards. > > -- > > qadram :: software development > > http://www.qadram.com > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: > > http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
