Subject: Re: FreeMail with NetBSD
To: Thomas Michael Wanka <Tom@Wanka.at>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/01/2001 22:30:12
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 10:23:13PM +0100, Thomas Michael Wanka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> you might consider sqwebmail or omail as webmail applikation, as they 
> access the directories on the disk insted useing imap.

What's the interest of this ?
- in general we need an imap server anyway
- if it can access the filesystem directly this means there is a suid root
  program somewhere, accessible from the web server. I don't like this
  very much
- a webmail using imap is compatible with any other MUA using imap

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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