From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 22 17:44:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA02044 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 17:44:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02038 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 17:44:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 0yz9UG-0000LB-00; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 17:44:00 -0700 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA11701; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 17:43:58 -0700 Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 17:43:58 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: Web based email To: "Jack T. Hsieh" cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" In-Reply-To: <35B54D81.1309491@1connect.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello, > I'm try to implement a web based email interface so that people can > check their emails no matter where they are ( something like hotmail ) . > > Could someone give me some hints on how to do that? or where can I find > the resourses for that? should that be done by CGI or what? > Thanks! Wouldn't it just be easier to install an IMAP server and let them access that from anywhere? If they have access to Communicator (Netscape 4), they have an IMAP-capable mail reader. (There are a few others available for unix; and several for MS-Win* or Mac.) Personally, I prefer the Cyrus server over the imap-uw version because Cyrus runs as a non-privileged user. OTOH, it requires IMAP or POP3 acces because it doesn't deliver into the traditional unix mailboxes. Both servers are available in the ports collection. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message