Date: 9 Apr 2004 08:42:41 -0000 From: eric@epetech.plus.com To: shawn@guillemette.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WebMail Message-ID: <20040409084241.69733.qmail@mrquiet.epetech.plus.com> In-Reply-To: <HGEFKOGKDPDJONGMFDHJKECDCKAA.shawn@guillemette.org>
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Shawn Guillemette wrote: > From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 8 19:59:55 2004 > From: "Shawn Guillemette" <shawn@guillemette.org> > To: "Freebsd-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 22:59:57 -0400 > Subject: WebMail > > I'm looking into options for webmail.. was looking for ideas... Looking for > something with a good how to .. ;-) I also looked into this recently. There are a number of options, and they all work quite differently. Some are just a web-based mail client, that expect to talk to an existing IMAP server (squirrelmail) which may or may not live on the same server; others are a client AND mail server in their own right and expect to directly manipulate mailboxes/maildirs (openwebmail, sqwebmail). In my case, we had users already with OE/Mozilla via IMAP/POP3 connecting to a dovecot mail server. Since this already provides IMAP funcationality, and maintains indexes etc, it didnt make sense to run something that wanted to directly touch the maildirs - so I went with squirrelmail. Currently, its installed on a different server to the mail server, and is quite happy talking imaps (secure IMAP, port 993) to dovecot. It was relatively easy to setup (hardest part was probably the PHP4 dependency, which I'd never touched before), and has good documentation online (though not always easy to find what you're looking for). It has a nice selection of plugins, too, which I've started to play around with and customise. Cheers, Eric.
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