Subject: Re: Web mail package?
To: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/31/2002 21:09:58
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 08:57:23PM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> Does anyone know of any existing package that I can install on my NetBSD
> system that will _serve_ up my mailbox? I'm going to be very far away
> from my home network, and I'd like to be able to drop in to an Internet
> Cafe, start up a browser, and read my mail.
>
> I've looked through pkgsrc/mail and pkgsrc/www directories, and nothing
> jumps out at me as having this capability.
Hmm, why not install imap-uw and squirrelmail? Sure, you will need apache
with php, but that is as easy as "make install" in www/ap-php4.
I use squirrelmail and it is very easy to get working, and you can setup
imap-uw to only list on 127.0.0.1 so your imap service isn't public.
-Andrew