[PLUG] Simple Webmail Apps?

Steven Susbauer stupendoussteve at gmail.com
Tue Jan 31 19:05:59 UTC 2006


I really wish webpine was released to the general public, that would rock
major.

SquirrelMail is probably the one of if not the best system you're going to
find.

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Wil Cooley wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 11:43 -0800, Paul Mullen wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:02:11AM -0800, Sandy Herring wrote:
> >
> > > Have you looked at SquirrelMail? I found it dead simple to config (I use
> > > it w/IMAP4 via dovecot)...
> >
> > I have, and I get the impression that it only works via IMAP or POP. I
> > just want the web equivalent of mutt (or pine or elm): an app that
> > reads local mboxs and maildirs for whichever user has authenticated.
> > That sort of app seems surprisingly difficult to find.
>
> Because it's pushing the responsibility of managing mailboxes into the
> web mail application, when there are already numerous IMAP servers which
> do it more reliably.  Managing local access to mail folders is
> non-trivial in many cases and throughout the years has been the source
> of lots of trouble--little wonder authors of web mail applications don't
> want to reinvent it.  I'd suggest investigating something like Dovecot,
> which can read your mboxes and Maildir folders and present them as
> IMAP--then your choices will open considerably.
>
> While your at it, maybe you should try to make your SMTP service a
> little more reliable:
> $ mailq|grep -c pem at nellump
> 91
>
> :\
>
> Wil
> --
> Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc>
> Naked Ape Consulting, Ltd
>



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