After Mark pointed out that one could use imapd running as a non-root
user to access a user's mail, I wrote a webmail script to read mail from
my cellphone. (We already had the authentication stuff set up as that's
how the users change their filtering and forwarding options).
I have a Nokia cellphone which has a little keyboard and actually has
POP/IMAP and SMTP built in - but the setup menu says "select how many
messages to download" and that's not what I want to happen. I have 9000
messages in my inbox, and just want to see if there's anything I should
know about, not download all of the last 10 spams and industry
newsletters at 5c/kilobyte or whatever. Hence TinyMail - it is a
web-based mail client that paginates output into 20-line chunks, does
gzip compression, and generally tries to maintain a small footprint by
e.g. truncating subject lines.
http://andrew.triumf.ca/tinymail/
With a bit of effort it could be rewritten to talk to any imap server
over sockets as does SquirrelMail, but as I say, I had the local auth
stuff already.
Definitely beta - there's things that I know break, like complicated
multipart messages, things that probably break, like UTF or Asian
language mail, and things that would probably be a good idea but I
haven't added, like LDAP lookup and addressbooks for composing mail. It's
not really supposed to be a full-featured client, though, so folder
management will probably never get done.
There are some interesting effects; I can save a vCard right into the
phone addressbook, and dial phone numbers direct from an email.
--
Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time)
Network Security Manager
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