Webmail clinet that supports local maildir mailboxes
I'm looking for a webmail client that supports reading from a hierarchy of maildir mailboxes on the server where it's installed. I normally read my mail by connecting to the server (using ssh) and running mutt, this will remain my normal way of reading mail but occasionally it's useful to be able to read it using webmail and I'd like to do it using the same maildir hierarchy that I see (and maintain) using mutt. I have found a few possibilities by searching but would appreciate some feedback on whether they are any good, I've found:- NeoMail (appears not to be currently developed) NwebMail oMail-webmail open-Webmail (seems the most likely candidate at the moment) Courier's sqwebmail is no good as it uses courier's silly non-directory based maildirs. Since my maildirs are created by procmail in what I regard as the sensible way sqwebmail won't read them. While I'm about it a good local GUI mail client that reads ordinary Unix mail spools as opposed to POP3 and/or IMAP would be useful too. -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 13:40, Chris Green wrote:
While I'm about it a good local GUI mail client that reads ordinary Unix mail spools as opposed to POP3 and/or IMAP would be useful too.
Why not install an IMAP server (they're easy to configure and well worth it) and then whole realms of software will be available to you. Dovecot is particularly lovely. D. -- Daniel Silverstone http://www.digital-scurf.org/ Hostmaster, Webmaster, and Chief Code Wibbler: Digital-Scurf Unlimited GPG Public key available from keyring.debian.org KeyId: 20687895
On 2004-01-23 13:40:54 +0000 Chris Green <chris@areti.co.uk> wrote:
I'm looking for a webmail client that supports reading from a hierarchy of maildir mailboxes on the server where it's installed.
I agree with Daniel that installing an IMAP server is probably the way to go for remote access. This would also give you more webmail choices and if that's all you want, you could restrict the IMAP to listening on loopback (lo interface) only.
While I'm about it a good local GUI mail client that reads ordinary Unix mail spools as opposed to POP3 and/or IMAP would be useful too.
I use and like GNUMail from http://www.collaboration-world.com/ which can use mbox (but not maildir other than through IMAP, as far as I can tell). The GnuPG plug-in is one of the easiest to use that I have seen. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef@jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 03:31:05PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
On 2004-01-23 13:40:54 +0000 Chris Green <chris@areti.co.uk> wrote:
I'm looking for a webmail client that supports reading from a hierarchy of maildir mailboxes on the server where it's installed.
I agree with Daniel that installing an IMAP server is probably the way to go for remote access. This would also give you more webmail choices and if that's all you want, you could restrict the IMAP to listening on loopback (lo interface) only.
What I'm after is Webmail for remote GUI access but I want to stay with mutt for local access, thus an IMAP server isn't ideal (though usable as mutt could use the IMPA server too). -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
What I'm after is Webmail for remote GUI access but I want to stay with mutt for local access, thus an IMAP server isn't ideal (though usable as mutt could use the IMPA server too).
In my setup, I have an IMAP server running for webmail and remote imaps access. I also use mutt on the box itself, through IMAP - although my setup (storage in ~/.maildir/) allows mutt to totally ignore the IMAP server and grab the mail directly (I've no idea if this actually has any side effects on the IMAP side of things, though). I use Postfix and Courier-imap, just in case you were wondering. :) -- Wayne Cornish
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