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

[Isabel Danforth]

Wasn't this really done by Andrew Mutch at:
	http://northville.lib.mi.us/freemail.htm

Isabel


At 08:39 AM 6/25/99 -0700, Roy Tennant wrote:
>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
>
>
>
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