Ed,
I have tried to complie Webmail but I could do it well.
I have sent e-mail to auther and ml with no luck.
On the other hand, IMP seems to be promising but
I wonder if you or someone know that it will recongize attachment file.
And it is possible to send the attachment file?
If so, it would be the great program what I have been looking for.
Tatsuya
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On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Ed Park wrote:
> There are a number of free webmail packages, some of which allow the reading
> of mail stored in maildirs. (In fact, any IMAP-based webmail package should
> allow the reading of maildirs using the C-client patch). Here are two that
> I've found particularly promising:
>
> 1) IMP (http://www.horde.org/imp). Pretty cool IMAP-based webmail package
> written using PHP3.
> 2) Webmail (http://webmail.woanders.de). This is a POP/IMAP package written
> in Perl.
>
> Both allow for sending/viewing attachments.
>
> I have also seriously considered writing my own webmail package for
> performance reasons. My general approach would be to bypass POP and IMAP
> altogether and do webmail reads via direct file i/o on the mail files. This
> is probably how the major players do it; I doubt, for instance, that hotmail
> uses POP or IMAP to read its mail files, because it's just inefficient to
> call up webmail CGI, have the webmail CGI communicate with a POP server, and
> retrieve a message if all that needs to be done is a simple local/NFS file
> read.
>
> cheers,
> Ed
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, January 11, 1999 11:23 AM
> > Cc: qmail Mailing list
> > Subject: Re: web-based mail
> >
> >
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> >
>
