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

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:43, 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 :-)

For webmail, other people will recommend Squirrelmail, but I like IMP
quite a bit.  It does ssl natively and will also connect to an
SSL enabled IMAP server (unlike Squirrelmail).  It can be a bit
harder to setup than Squirrelmail, but not if you use the hand rpms
(assuming, of course, and rpm system).

IMP can be found at http://www.horde.org/

Cheers,
Tanner
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