Allen Versfeld writes:
> This is probably a case of Famous Last Words, but:
>
> How hard can it be to set up a web-based pop3 client?
>
> Given that all I want is to give my existing users access to their mail
> through the web. Look at Web-pop (an add-on for MDaemon) to see what I
> mean.
First of all, you need to use the correct terminology. What you're looking
for is not a web-based pop3 client. You're not looking for a web-based
gateway to the POP3 protocol, you're looking for a web-based direct gateway
to your mailboxes.
If you store your mail in mailbox files, almost any Mailbox WWW CGI client
will do. Perhaps you'll need to make slight code adjustments to have it
look into $HOME/Mailbox, instead of /var/spool/mail.
If you store your mail in Maildirs, I do not know of any Maildir WWW CGI
clients, which is why I've been writing my own, for the past couple of
months. In fact, I'm using this WWW CGI right now, and if I don't find any
bugs in the next couple of weeks, there'll be some alpha code out there to
play with. It'll still be alpha code, though, and I wouldn't bless it for
production deployment just yet.
>
> Admittedly, I am no programmer, but wouldn't it be (relatively) easy to
> write a cgi (or perl or something) script sending appropriate commands
> to my pop3 server?
>
> This is another task with an unreasonable deadline, any ideas other than
> buying a package which costs many US dollars? (our exchange rate sucks
> big lumpy bits)
>
> My only requirement is that we can stick with qmail - I have spent way
> too much sweat learning linux and qmail (simultaneously) to want to
> dump either of them.
>
>
> Also, are there any web-based remote administration packages out there?
> More specifically, I need to be able to provide privilidged users with
> the right to add users remotely.
>
>
>
> Oh, I wrote in about a week ago, saying that I was setting up qmail on
> RedHat 5.1, couldn't retreive remote mail, etc.
>
> I am sure lots of people replied (hint, hint) but I wouldn't have
> known, because soon after I sent it through, our mail server (Exchange,
> ack, ptew) fell over.
>
> A blessing in disguise! with exchange gone, I started receiving
> incoming mail, and since installing checkpassword (shouldn't this
> package be mentioned in the documentation somewhere????? (apologies if
> it is)), I can read mail through a pop3 client...
> --
>
> Allen Versfeld
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Wandata
>
> "I hate quotations" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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