Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (156 mails)

[Dan Kolb <dankolb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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