did you look at MailMan?
http://www.endymion.com/ (or something very similar to that)
it's a perl based pop3 frontend. the code is miserable to try to tweak,
but it can be done...
brian
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Jeff Graves wrote:
> Okay, i'm feeling brave today so here goes. This problem
> spawned from not being able to get vmware or wine working:
>
> Problem:
> 1) I need to read email in linux and windows and mac and....
> 2) Employees want to read their new mail at home but would
> like it to remain on the server so they can still read it at
> work.
>
> Solution:
> Web front-end to pop server. I looked at just using pine. But
> everyone here is so outlook-ized i want to puke and management
> says "Use outlook." I thought about changing to a IMAP. But,
> we don't have the space on the server and management says
> "We're strapped for cash." Looked into using atdot and horde
> IMP on the server. Atdot is WAY too difficult to deal with (plus
> i don't know the slightest thing about perl) and IMP is a IMAP
> only front-end. I found CWMail from NetWin useful but since
> my department can't even order a 18 Gig drive without getting
> reammed i don't think they'll go for the $500 product. So, my
> solution: write something in java. Why?
>
> - It's the only language i know enough about that i can write
> something like this.
> - It'll run on any platform as a client.
> - Don't need to worry about security leaks cause it is a java
> client
> app.
>
> The reason for this email (as you're probably wondering) anyone
> want to save me and tell me about this awesome program that will
> run on my redhat pop mail server thus saving me hours upon hours
> of programming time that i'm not going to get paid for. Or is
> anyone
> else a java programmer that wants to help out? I've got a
> sem-decent
> smtp client program now, just need to work on the pop part of it.
> anyway, figured i'd throw it out there and see if anyone had any
> suggestions. thanks
>
> jeff
>
>
>
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AAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEE! Evil... Bright... Yellow... Thing...!!
That must be the Daystar. I've heard talk about it.
User Friendly, 12/8/1999
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