[ale] quick and dirty webmail solution?

Jerald Sheets questy at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 08:18:32 EDT 2009


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I had to look, and sure enough...  Open Webmail is still around:  http://openwebmail.org/

 From my recollection, it was very easy to set up...  a handful of  
perl modules and make sure some standard UNIX utilities were in place  
(like wget, etc.), place it in a subdir, make sure Apache knew about  
him, and then he just worked.  On the native Mail Spools too.

There's a whole lot of documentation about the various features you  
can set up if you want here:

http://openwebmail.org/openwebmail/doc/readme.txt

and then you should be good to go.

For those of you that have been around long enough, this is based on  
the old NeoMail package by Ernie Miller.

Check it out.  There's a few demos, and I know I've had great success  
with it.

- --j



On Jul 16, 2009, at 1:28 AM, Robert Reese wrote:

> Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 1:55:01 PM, Richard wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:11 PM,
>> Geoffrey<lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>>> For a business solution.  We were thinking that terms of use for  
>>> free
>>> gmail exluded such solutions.
>
>> Not at all. You said "a traveling person". This is no problem. It's
>> not like you are trying to setup your whole company on it. ...
>> That comes closer to offending
>> the terms, but I've never heard of an objection.
>
> My experience lately has shown Google actually encourages the  
> individual employees to set up and use Gmail, hoping that if enough  
> employees use it and other Google services such as Talk, that the  
> company would find it efficient and compelling to use Google's  
> premium services.
>
> Besides, should Google take the highly unanticipated step of closing  
> the account it would be mostly just an inconvenience since the  
> primary purpose would be to send email as well as pass through email  
> culled from other email accounts; those email accounts do not  
> necessarily have to be set up to delete the email after its pulled.
>
> However, if that really is a concern then also set up a Yahoo! email  
> address for exactly the same purpose, and CC the Yahoo! address to  
> ensure all sent email also has a 'backup'.
>
> Cheers,
> Robert~
>
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