On Mon 09 Jun, Ben Donohue bloviated thus: > I've got a RH9 box running sendmail and imap. I want to be able to > access my email remotely via a browser, ie. like a hotmail service. > So far i've only come across IMP. Is this the only option or are there > more etc. pro's con's?
If you plan to be going places that offer unknown browsers, I would recommend you steer clear of IMP. I used it a couple of years ago while travelling through Vietnam and it was unusable. "Internet Cafe" in that part of the world means 33.6k modem with seven computers hanging off it. S-L-O-W. IMP's main screen has some sort of timeout which caused it to refresh. This refresh would often kick in during the delay between clicking on an email and the page with that email actually turning up, so I ended up in an infinite loop. Most annoying! If you're travelling, you want webmail with the absolute bare minimum of bells and whistles, or at least webmail you can turn the whistles off for. Squirrelmail does this and much, much more. The downside is that it runs in PHP. Also worth sticking a copy of the Putty executable on your web server. You'd be surprised how many Internet Cafes will let you run arbitrary executables... I was surprised to find ssh possible from most of the internet cafes in Vietnam, yet SSL web sites were blocked. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net Send email with subject "send key pub" for public key. "The PROPER way to handle HTML postings is to cancel the article, then hire a hitman to kill the poster, his wife and kids, and fuck his dog and smash his computer into little bits. Anything more is just extremism." - Paul Tomblin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
