On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:21:32PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: > On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 10:33:30AM +0200, FTP wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 06:25:52PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > > > OpenWebmail is very charming because of how very little it needs to > > > bring into base OpenBSD to get working. I set it up for a school of > > > about 200 students (...). I must say, at this point, being not > > > written in PHP is starting to look Really Nice, too. > > > > bottom line, your suggestion is to stick with openwebmail (if I don't > > want to intsall IMAP) and run 'insecure' apache? Would that be a > > 'good' solution for a small e-mail server? > > Over here, I use Hastymail+Dovecot IMAP server. Dovecot is extremely > easy to setup and Works For Me, though it does not appear to work for > everyone. > > Hastymail is a basic webmail application, and about as sane as webmail > applications get. Notably, it does not support sending HTML mail, does > not use Javascript, and can - but need not - use cookies; what's better, > it actually has a thought-out and configurable security model. > > The interface is basic, but functional, and the only thing required is a > couple of flat files and an IMAP server. (No SQL is a Good Thing, too - > not to say that SQL isn't cool, but SQL is *not* a filesystem, despite > what the LAMP crowd seems to think...) > > The only thing that might be construed as 'missing' is PGP support, but > while I really like PGP, the whole idea of PGP over webmail has too many > problems to classify as a Good Idea. > > Not being able to send HTML mail does make some people less happy, > though. That, and it's written in PHP - and my opinion of PHP is > certainly no better than Nick's. > > Joachim > > P.S. Not to be a nazi, but trimming quotes is a good idea... > P.P.S. Flames invited over Excess Capitalization and the above P.S. >
I see. In that case looks like to be better of to first install dovecot (which I was trying to avoid!) and then I'll have plenty of choices concerning the web-front GUI. Thanks George
