Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] CGI to read mails via browser - found one !!
Yes, of course, that's very clear in my mind... I don't really need a secure connection, because I administrate (with 2 other guys) the students' server of the highschool I'm in (my last year), and we are on a LAN that is behind a firewall (which we don't control - the administrator of the highschool's network does :-( ). We can't access our mailbox on the webserver (that is "besides" the firewall, not behind it, of course) because the administrator doesn't want to open the POP3 port on the firewall (dunno why... maybe he can't ;-))... So, we needed a solution like www-mail... It doesn't really need to be secure, because it's the students' mailbox anyway... But I might (although I don't think I'll have the time :-( ) try Apache SSL... Pascal /nick SuSE52 on #linux (IRCnet) root on www.student.prov-liege.be -----Original Message----- From: Andrew L. Davis <adavis@hayson.vmarketing.com> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Date: mercredi 13 mai 1998 19:21 Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] CGI to read mails via browser - found one !!
On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 10:46:03AM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:
<A HREF="http://www.econ.cbs.dk/vejrum/www-mail.html"><A HREF="http://www.econ.cbs.dk/vejrum/www-mail.html</A">http://www.econ.cbs.dk/vejrum/www-mail.html</A</A>> or <A HREF="ftp://ftp.student.prov-liege.be:/pub/linux/www/mail/www-mail.tar.gz"><A HREF="ftp://ftp.student.prov-liege.be:/pub/linux/www/mail/www-mail.tar.gz</A">ftp://ftp.student.prov-liege.be:/pub/linux/www/mail/www-mail.tar.gz</A</A>> from my FTP server... (just 14kb !)
Works great !! I've just installed it on my webserver... took me 5 min to install... 1) mkdir /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/mail 2) extract the archive in there... 3) edit WWW-MAIL.pl to change some options (in the top of the script) 4) done!!!
(thanks to Andrew Davis)
Thanks for the praise but be careful using this CGI because it passes your user name and password in plain text. The only way it would be completely safe is if you ran a SSL server on the mail server. I wonder if exchange is safe to use; they have there own e-mail web interface, but I don't trust it.
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Passcal wrote:
Yes, of course, that's very clear in my mind... I don't really need a secure connection, because I administrate (with 2 other guys) the students' server of the highschool I'm in (my last year), and we are on a LAN that is behind a firewall (which we don't control - the administrator of the highschool's network does :-( ). We can't access our mailbox on the webserver (that is "besides" the firewall, not behind it, of course) because the administrator doesn't want to open the POP3 port on the firewall (dunno why... maybe he can't ;-))... So, we needed a solution like www-mail... It doesn't really need to be secure, because it's the students' mailbox anyway...
Very smart, who cares about students anyway!
But I might (although I don't think I'll have the time :-( ) try Apache SSL...
Pascal /nick SuSE52 on #linux (IRCnet) root on www.student.prov-liege.be
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On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 08:02:52AM +0000, Arnulf Striepecke wrote:
Passcal wrote:
Yes, of course, that's very clear in my mind... I don't really need a secure connection, because I administrate (with 2 other guys) the students' server of the highschool I'm in (my last year), and we are on a LAN that is behind a firewall (which we don't control - the administrator of the highschool's network does :-( ). We can't access our mailbox on the webserver (that is "besides" the firewall, not behind it, of course) because the administrator doesn't want to open the POP3 port on the firewall (dunno why... maybe he can't ;-))... So, we needed a solution like www-mail... It doesn't really need to be secure, because it's the students' mailbox anyway...
Very smart, who cares about students anyway!
But I might (although I don't think I'll have the time :-( ) try Apache SSL...
If any of the accounts that use the web mail CGI script have shell access then you are endangering your system, but if your computer is behind a firewall then you should be alright; if the only things that can get in are smtp pop www domain then no sweat you should be relatively safe. -- Andrew L. Davis Network Operations adavis@vprlnk.net ViperLink International -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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