From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 10:12:49 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 967D816A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:12:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl (fia148-72.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.72.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F19F43D48 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:12:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl) Received: from localhost (colin@localhost) by kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl (8.11.6p2/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j07ACVg09164; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:12:35 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:12:31 +0100 From: "Colin J. Raven" To: Peter Risdon In-Reply-To: <1105090869.708.113.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> Message-ID: References: <1105090869.708.113.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: FreeBSD Questions cc: Ted Mittelstaedt Subject: RE: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:12:49 -0000 On Jan 7 at 09:41, Peter Risdon launched this into the bitstream: > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:59 +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: >> On Jan 6 at 21:41, Ted Mittelstaedt launched this into the bitstream: >> >>> Use IMP. Of course, some people pooh-pooh it saying it's hard >>> to setup. However, IMP is one of those programs that is worth >>> the effort, as if you install the entire suite of programs you >>> have a very powerful front end mail system. >>> >> >> I *gather* (not in front of a FreeBSD box at this moment) that IMP is >> *not* in ports, otherwise (surely) installation wouldn't be *that* >> complex? Configging maybe, but install-wise ports 'apps just; "slide >> right in there" - usually :-) > > I'm baffled by all this. IMP is easy to install and set up. It is in the > ports tree, together with several other useful horde components: > >> From /usr/ports/www/horde2/pkg-descr: > > Horde is used by these ports: mail/imp3, mail/turba, devel/chora, > deskutils/kronolith, deskutils/nag, www/jonah, net/nic, devel/whups, > and deskutils/mnemo > > Horde applications have an intuitive folder structure, clearly > identified config files and, the dozen or so times I've had to set this > up, it's always just worked first time. > I think the difficulties arise where there is no application distribution mechanism such as ports. Now you mention it, I seem to recall a shedload of issues if you had to download the source and build it by hand. There were definite gotchas in that process I believe.