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

[Brian Williams]

I don't have time to do the web email page, but I can certainly contribute
what we find as we play with a few options to the information that would
go on the page.

The ones we are interested in are the server based web ones, and just unix
at that. I think it would be very useful to have this information gathered
together as much as possible. In looking around for a few days, I
certainly found several products, like emumail and horde, but I'm sure
there are more out there.

And so we are trying to install some of these now to look at and the
installation is not all that straightforward, either. So, there is a
little content here. Besides just the situation with all the
different types of email access being so complex.

On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Isabel Danforth wrote:

> 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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