[SLUG] Browser email retrieval
Hi Slugs, I'm searching for whatever is needed to access my email via a browser from anywhere. I've got a RH9 box running sendmail and imap. I want to be able to access my email remotely via a browser, ie. like a hotmail service. So far i've only come across IMP. Is this the only option or are there more etc. pro's con's? Anyone have any recommendations on what to use? Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Browser email retrieval
quote who=Ben Donohue I'm searching for whatever is needed to access my email via a browser from anywhere. So far i've only come across IMP. Is this the only option or are there more etc. pro's con's? Anyone have any recommendations on what to use? My preferred choice out of a scary bunch: http://www.squirrelmail.org/ - Jeff -- GU4DEC: June 16th-18th in Dublin, Ireland http://www.guadec.org/ Old timers will tell you what a pain unstable was during the new testament transition. - Jon Corbet on Debian's KJV packages -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Browser email retrieval
On Mon 09 Jun, Ben Donohue bloviated thus: I've got a RH9 box running sendmail and imap. I want to be able to access my email remotely via a browser, ie. like a hotmail service. So far i've only come across IMP. Is this the only option or are there more etc. pro's con's? If you plan to be going places that offer unknown browsers, I would recommend you steer clear of IMP. I used it a couple of years ago while travelling through Vietnam and it was unusable. Internet Cafe in that part of the world means 33.6k modem with seven computers hanging off it. S-L-O-W. IMP's main screen has some sort of timeout which caused it to refresh. This refresh would often kick in during the delay between clicking on an email and the page with that email actually turning up, so I ended up in an infinite loop. Most annoying! If you're travelling, you want webmail with the absolute bare minimum of bells and whistles, or at least webmail you can turn the whistles off for. Squirrelmail does this and much, much more. The downside is that it runs in PHP. Also worth sticking a copy of the Putty executable on your web server. You'd be surprised how many Internet Cafes will let you run arbitrary executables... I was surprised to find ssh possible from most of the internet cafes in Vietnam, yet SSL web sites were blocked. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Send email with subject send key pub for public key. The PROPER way to handle HTML postings is to cancel the article, then hire a hitman to kill the poster, his wife and kids, and fuck his dog and smash his computer into little bits. Anything more is just extremism. - Paul Tomblin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Browser email retrieval
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:32:57PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: snip Also worth sticking a copy of the Putty executable on your web server. You'd be surprised how many Internet Cafes will let you run arbitrary executables... I was surprised to find ssh possible from most of the internet cafes in Vietnam, yet SSL web sites were blocked. Also win95/98/ME drivers for your digital camera is a good idea too. -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Browser email retrieval
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:24:18PM +1000, Anthony Wood wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:32:57PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: snip Also worth sticking a copy of the Putty executable on your web server. You'd be surprised how many Internet Cafes will let you run arbitrary executables... I was surprised to find ssh possible from Definitely. I've just got back from a trip to Canada and Alaska where I used putty at every internet cafe I used, except the one in Vancouver running Linux :-) Each time I simply downloaded it from my web server. Also win95/98/ME drivers for your digital camera is a good idea too. I used a USB compact flash reader most places and never needed to install drivers. There were a couple that wouldn't let me plug anything into the PCs, but most were OK about it, especially those in the more popular tourist destinations. The one running Linux even gave me a root shell (unsupervised :-) so I could configure it - he'd never used USB on Linux and didn't know how to set it up. Most public libraries in Canada provide free internet access. None let me plug in my USB reader or digital camera, but I had no problems downloading and running putty. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
