Newbie - Web based interface for mail program?

[Matthew Seaman]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:24:18PM -0700, jasondic at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> Is there any web based interface programs similar to exchanges web mail that 
> one can use with their FreeBSD mail server?

There are at least 5 webmail systems in ports:

    % make search key=webmail
    Port:   imp-3.2.2
    Path:   /usr/ports/mail/imp3
    Info:   A webmail system which accesses mail over IMAP
    Maint:  thierry at pompo.net
    Index:  mail www
    B-deps:
    R-deps: XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6 apache-1.3.28 aspell-0.50.3_1 cclient-2002d,1 expat-1.95.6_1 fontconfig-2.2.90_3 freetype2-2.1.5_1 gettext-0.12.1 horde-2.2.4_1 imake-4.3.0_1 imap-uw-2002d,1 jpeg-6b_1 libgnugetopt-1.2 libiconv-1.9.1_1 libltdl-1.5 libmcal-0.7 libmcrypt-2.5.7_1 libwmf-0.2.8 libxml2-nopython-2.5.11 lynx-2.8.4.1d mysql-client-4.0.15 openldap-client-2.1.22 pear-Archive_Tar-1.1 pear-Auth-1.2.2 pear-Auth_SASL-1.0.0_2 pear-Console_Getopt-1.0_1 pear-DB-1.5.0.r2,1 pear-Date-1.3_2 pear-HTML_Common-1.2.1 pear-Log-1.7.1 pear-Mail-1.1.2 pear-Mail_Mime-1.2.1_3 pear-Net_SMTP-1.2.3 pear-Net_Socket-1.0.1_1 pear-PEAR-1.2.1 php4-4.3.4.r1 php4-horde-4.3.4.r1 pkgconfig-0.15.0 png-1.2.5_2 turba-1.2.1 unzip-5.50_2 wv-0.7.6 xlhtml-0.5.1
    
    Port:   openwebmail-2.10
    Path:   /usr/ports/mail/openwebmail
    Info:   A webmail system designed to manage very big mail folder files in a memory efficient way
    Maint:  leeym at FreeBSD.org
    Index:  mail
    B-deps: p5-CGI-SpeedyCGI-2.21_3
    R-deps: libiconv-1.9.1_1 p5-Authen-SASL-2.04 p5-CGI-SpeedyCGI-2.21_3 p5-CGI.pm-3.00,1 p5-MIME-Base64-2.20 p5-Net-1.17,1 p5-Text-Iconv-1.2_1
    
    Port:   silkymail-1.1.10_1
    Path:   /usr/ports/mail/silkymail
    Info:   A webmail system which accesses mail over IMAP
    Maint:  voisine at yahoo.com
    Index:  mail www
    B-deps:
    R-deps: apache-1.3.28 expat-1.95.6_1 mod_php4-4.3.4.r1,1 mysql-client-4.0.15
    
    Port:   squirrelmail-1.4.1
    Path:   /usr/ports/mail/squirrelmail
    Info:   A webmail system which accesses mail over IMAP
    Maint:  simond at irrelevant.org
    Index:  mail www
    B-deps:
    R-deps: apache-1.3.28 expat-1.95.6_1 mod_php4-4.3.4.r1,1 mysql-client-4.0.15
    
    Port:   sqwebmail-3.6.0
    Path:   /usr/ports/mail/sqwebmail
    Info:   CGI Webmail client for Maildirs
    Maint:  oliver at FreeBSD.org
    Index:  mail www
    B-deps:
    R-deps:

Most of these require you to set up an IMAP server of which there are
at least 4 available in ports.  Another consideration you'll have to
look into is the format in which delivered e-mail is stored on the
system -- choices are typically mbox (the default style on FreeBSD),
maildir or the Cyrus mailbox database.  If you aren't going to use
mbox format, you'll need to install a new MDA (mail delivery agent)
and integrate that with your MTA (mail transport agent --
eg. sendmail).

If you just want to get a webmail system up and running quickly, and
you don't have any special needs for massive capacity or extreme
security, then try installing the mail/imap-uw and mail/squirrelmail
ports. That I think is pretty much the simplest configuration job.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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