[WEB4LIB] Re: Web-based intranet email

[Prentiss Riddle]

> From web4lib at webjunction.org  Thu Apr  8 17:04:56 1999
> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 14:58:29 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Prentiss Riddle <riddle at is.rice.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Web-based intranet email
> 
> There are a bunch of free ones, too, including:
> 
>       http://netbula.com/anyemail/
> 	http://www.atdot.org/
>       http://web.horde.org/imp/

Aha -- I knew I had omitted the one we decided to use at Rice.  It's
called Wing, is written in perl and uses IMAP (not POP).  It should be
available at a CPAN site near you.  The sysadmins who evaluated several
packages chose Wing because they felt it would be scaleable to a large
number of users.  We like having such a tool on hand chiefly for
security reasons -- we needed a way to support e-mail access from
off-campus (especially when our students scatter for the summer)
without passwords being subject to snooping, and Wing lets us hide the
passwords with SSL.

I haven't found a Wing web page, but here's the README:

	http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/O/MICB/wing-0.6.readme

-- Prentiss Riddle ("aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada") riddle at rice.edu
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