From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 10 08:36:31 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id IAA11307 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 08:36:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (root@hub.org [207.107.138.200]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id IAA11302 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 08:36:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.8.2/8.7.5) with SMTP id LAA10929; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 11:36:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 11:36:14 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Johann Visagie cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Web-based MUA In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Johann Visagie wrote: > > Both Novell Groupwise and MS Exchange now allow users to read mail remotely > using any Web browser by providing a mail client with an HTML front-end. > This approach has some advantages over "plain old" POP3. (And some > disadvantages, yes.) > > In theory it would be trivial to whip up a CGI script which acts as a mail > agent (depending on how many features you add to the beast). So easy, in > fact, that before I seriously start hitting the Perl, I thought I would ask > whether anyone knows of such a thing already in existence... I've done a few > searches, but so far they've proved to be fruitless. > Check out http://www.hub.org/~tdac Its a Java-based IMAP mail reader...not sure where in development it is, mind you... Marc G. Fournier scrappy@hub.org Systems Administrator @ hub.org scrappy@freebsd.org