[TriLUG] Interface to email (webmail/pop/imap)

[Heath Holcomb]

bp wrote:
> TriLug,
> 
> Now that PostFix is working flawlessly on my DSL connection, what is the 
> easiest, least maintenance required, reasonably secure way to provide 
> shell illiterate users access to email?  Would a Webmail frontend, POP 
> server or IMAP be easier to setup from this point?
> 
> PostFix receives and sends mail just fine, for now I have my user setup 
> with a .forward file to get mail to this address.  A friend needs a 
> primary address though so .forward won't work and she doesn't care for 
> shell access nor has a ssh client at work (& i'm not about to allow 
> telnet anyhow).
> 
> Ideas?  KISS principle based :-)

I like Courier IMAP. You can configure it to use SSL pretty easily and 
IMAP seems to be supported by most popular mail clients. I'm sure there 
are web-based front ends out there as well, although I have not really 
investigated it. It does require you to use maildir though.

Heath

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