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

[Andrew Mutch]

That is a collection of links that I put together at my former job ... I'm not sure
how often those links are checked but I can get in touch with the person
maintaining the site to see if he wants to keep those up although it is just a
sampling of what is available.

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library.

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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