Webmail function as a django application = Totally awesome idea. I'll probably need some other email addresses for non-administrator users, so a friendly client would be nice. Roundcube should do the trick for now, but integrating the webmail into the django app itself would be rad.
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com>wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:41:11 -0800 (PST), Chris Pagnutti > <chris.pagnu...@gmail.com> declaimed the following in > gmane.comp.python.django.user: > > > Good point. At the moment, sending mail is my priority, but eventually > > I'll want to receive and view mail as well. Most guides I can find > relate > > to setting up both sides of the story, so I figure I might as well just > do > > it all at once. > > > > Well... The SMTP daemon should also handle the "receive" part; if > properly configured with local user account mailboxes... (pre-spam era > one could connect to any SMTPd to transfer mail; mail didn't have to > either come from an internal user account or be sent to a local user > account -- these days, that would be considered an open relay) > > I presume you have some sort of shell access to the server since > you > are doing configuration. Basic shell mail clients didn't* need POP3; > they directly access the mailbox(es) on the machine itself. So if your > intent is purely to receive mail being sent to /you/ as administrator of > the server, you may not need the POP3/IMAP/Webmail stuff. Those > protocols are meant for when the server is used to store emails that > will be accessed from other computers at ad-hoc intervals. Since this is > a Django group -- have you considered making the webmail function a > Django application? > > > > * It's been too many years, but the first mail client I used on my old > Amiga ONLY knew how to read a mailbox (AmigaElm); sending email invoked > a subprocess that took the composed mail and submitted it to a queue > directory -- it knew nothing about SMTP or POP3. I had to run a > simplified SMTP to process the outgoing queue, and a timed job to do > POP3 fetching into the mailbox. My first real Python program was to > create an outgoing SMTPd, because the two packages I'd tried had flaws > (one would block if it couldn't get to a destination host, the other > never sent to CC/BCC addresses). > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > wlfr...@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
