[WEB4LIB] Re: Web based email programs (fwd)

[Jerry Kuntz]

I suggest it be classed into:
--POP3 web-based email retrieval services
--Free web-based email account services
--Web email server software
This thread has covered all of these, which are really very different
animals.
Jerry Kuntz
Ramapo Catskill Library System
jkuntz at rcls.org
----- Original Message -----
From: Roy Tennant <rtennant at library.berkeley.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 11:39 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Web based email programs (fwd)


> Prentiss has a good suggestion -- putting up a summary of Web-based mail
> reader options as a link from the Web4Lib Library Web Manager's Reference
> Center. Is there anyone out there who would like to take this on as a
> service to the Web4Lib community? The way I would prefer to do it is to
> link to the page wherever you wish to maintain it. Thanks,
> Roy
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 06:53:33 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Prentiss Riddle <riddle at is.rice.edu>
>
> > From: Brian Williams <brianw at nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us>
> > Subject: [WEB4LIB] Web based email programs
> >
> > I'm interested in providing access to our staff to email via something
> > besides good old pine, namely something web based - and not their
> > browsers.
> >
> > I don't want them to go to a third party. I don't mind running something
> > on our server to provide this.
>
> I've seen this question come up a couple of times before on Web4Lib.
> Maybe a summary should be added to the list of resources on the Web4Lib
> web page.
>
> A few free web-based mail readers that have been mentioned include:
>
> http://netbula.com/anyemail/
> http://www.atdot.org/
> http://web.horde.org/imp/
>
> Here at Rice, we chose one called "WING" for "Web IMAP/NNTP Gateway".
> It's 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 website, but here's the README:
>
> http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/O/MICB/wing-0.6.readme
>
> My co-worker who headed up the WING installation at Rice is Dean Lane
> (dlane at rice.edu) and I imagine he'd be happy to answer questions.  He's
> also put up a list of bugs and "to dos" (including an ambitious set of
> extensions he wants to add for local use):
>
> http://wing.is.rice.edu/WingIssues.html
>
> -- Prentiss Riddle ("aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada") riddle at rice.edu
> -- Webmaster, Rice University / http://is.rice.edu/~riddle
>