Dear Suse list Any suggestions for how I might run a "Hotmail" online email type of service from our Linux box. Are there any programs out there already set up to do this sort of thing ? Our school is soon to have a permanent in and out connection so this becomes an attractive option to offer our own pupils and FPs. Best regards Alan Craig PT CDT Aberdeen Grammar School
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, acraig wrote:
Dear Suse list
Any suggestions for how I might run a "Hotmail" online email type of service from our Linux box. Are there any programs out there already set up to do this sort of thing ?
You mean a webmail system? Yes, there's a few out there. Quickly searching on Freshmeat gives: http://freshmeat.net/projects/imp/ http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpwebmail/ And there's also one which we're using in Oxford called WING. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mbeattie/wing/ It's still being developed, but there have been a couple of thousand users using it without any problems, which I'm sure is only a good thing :) Try all of the above, see which one you prefer, which one your students prefer, or even just run all of them and give a choice.
Our school is soon to have a permanent in and out connection so this becomes an attractive option to offer our own pupils and FPs.
What about a console session to mutt or pine? ;-) Dan -- dankolb@ox.compsoc.net Oxford University Computer Society Secretary --I reserve the right to be completely wrong about any comments or opinions expressed; don't trust everything you read above--
On 29 Jan, Dan Kolb wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, acraig wrote:
Dear Suse list
Any suggestions for how I might run a "Hotmail" online email type of service from our Linux box. Are there any programs out there already set up to do this sort of thing ?
You mean a webmail system? Yes, there's a few out there. Quickly searching on Freshmeat gives:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/imp/ http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpwebmail/
And there's also one which we're using in Oxford called WING.
You might also try squirrelmail which is nice. Can't remember the URL but it shouldn't be too hard to find. -- John Munro one day....
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:29:58PM -0000, acraig wrote:
Dear Suse list
Any suggestions for how I might run a "Hotmail" online email type of service from our Linux box. Are there any programs out there already set up to do this sort of thing ?
Our school is soon to have a permanent in and out connection so this becomes an attractive option to offer our own pupils and FPs.
FWIW, Hotmail uses qmail. There are a number of web interfaces listed at the qmail home site: http://qmail.plig.org/top.html -- Frank *-------*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-------* | Boroughbridge | Tel: 01423 323019 | PGP keyID: 0xC0B341A3 | *-------*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-------* http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/
Any suggestions for how I might run a "Hotmail" online email type of service from our Linux box. Are there any programs out there already set up to do this sort of thing ?
Check out http://www.inter7.com or http://www.courier-mta.org Unfortunatly there is a lack of Windows or X11 based mail programs which can read maildir format. Even though it is ideal for network workstations. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:39:14PM +0000, Mark Evans wrote:
Any suggestions for how I might run a "Hotmail" online email type of service from our Linux box. Are there any programs out there already set up to do this sort of thing ?
Check out http://www.inter7.com or http://www.courier-mta.org
Unfortunatly there is a lack of Windows or X11 based mail programs which can read maildir format. Even though it is ideal for network workstations.
Less software available for maildirs is the only downside that I really see (although qmail supports mailbox too) and possible unavailability of inodes where there's a lot of mail for a lot of users - although it's abilities over nfs tend to make this last point moot. Seen on Slashdot:
Maildir [compared to mbox] is better because:
1) it is more reliable over nfs. Maildir is designed to not need file-level locking, which sucks over nfs.
2) maildir is more resistant to catastrophic corruption since each email is a seperate file.
3) maildir keeps metadata about the email in the emails filename, rather than a seperate index file. This helps prevent the metadata, such as "replied-to" and "forwarded this" from getting out of sync
4) filesystem level tool work well with maildir. you don't need special "formail" type tools to work wirh them, bash scripting is capable of doing it all by itself.
5) maildir is better positioned to take advantage of advanced new filesystems like reiserfs. when reiserfs has a plugin for file-level transparent compression, maildir will be able to selectivle and invisibly compess emails to the disk without requiring other programs/scripts to decompress them before use.
As for qmail: 1) Requires little or no administration cf Sendmail. Installed qmail over 3 yrs ago and still on same release. 2) Modular approach rather than `stick it into one great binary' approach of sendmail/exim seems to result in less likelihood of bugs as evidenced by cert. How do you get on with it Mark? I guess you use mailboxes. -- Frank *-------*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-------* | Boroughbridge | Tel: 01423 323019 | PGP keyID: 0xC0B341A3 | *-------*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-------* http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/
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