Web based e-mail server

[atomstryker]

I just set up an IMAP and POP3 server using Mercury/32 on and XP computer. I was wondering if there was some way I could retrieve my email from a web site, not using an e-mail client. Is there a tutorial available or anything?

 

[stash]

I can give you a tutorial for an imap server with a webmail frontend, but its on linux.... really good though, its what i run.

http://www.sxpress.com/~henry/qmail-pop-imap-web-howto-7.3.htm

 

[atomstryker]

Any other ideas, thoughts, opinions? Preferably something easier...

 

[jlee123]

We also use Mercury Mail/32 for our email services. We are very happy with Squirrelmail, a Free, Open Source WebMail system. It is incredibly powerful and well put together. I put up some Directions on configuring Squirrelmail on a Windows machine. If you only have a few users you could probably get by running Squirrelmail and Mercury on the same machine, but if you have a high demand, you may need to set up a second server. Another alternative that also works well but is a little more complicated setup is IMP. If you have any questions or problems feel free to email me.

Jay

 

[atomstryker]

Can you run Horde and IMP on Windows?

 

[atomstryker]

I got the Squirrelmail login screen to work. Now, what do I use as the login for the first time? I just left it blank hit okay and got an error page:
ERROR
Error connecting to IMAP server: .
0 : The operation completed successfully.



What does this mean? What did I do wrong?

 

[Need4Speed]

you need to login with a valid system user

 

[Nothinman]

You need to login with your IMAP mailbox user.

I personally think IMP is badass, but I run Linux.

 

[chsh1ca]

We use Horde + IMP, Kronolith, Nag, Mnemo, Gollem, and Turba here, and it works way better than anything else I've looked at. I'm not sure about Windows support. Horde's PHP is written to be specifically portable, but I'm not sure what functionality you would lose moving to Windows since certain applications require some functionality from unixes (ispell for spell checking, for instance), which I'm not sure have Windows equivalents. If you hop into #horde on irc.freenode.net and ask there you will likely get a good response from the developers. They are always very helpful.

It should also be noted that the CVS versions of horde are far more advanced than the latest release versions.

 

[stash]

I personally think IMP is badass, but I run Linux

I run Horde/IMP on Linux right now...thats what my link at the top was all about.

 

[atomstryker]

I think I'll set up red hat 7.3 on my pentium server and run apache, php, annd horde+imp....Does that sound like it will work? Any additional support places or tutorials besides the ones already posted?

 

[stash]

Well you can always send me a note

I've been using this system for about a year now, and its great. I run it on a PII 400 with 256MB of RAM and its more than enough. Courier-imap works great with outlook, much better than MecuryMail which runs on Windows. And having the horde/imp webmail when Im away from home is great.

One thing I'll tell you up front is when you install RH 7.3 make it as barebones as possible. Just apache, the MySQL components, PHP, etc. No X, window managers, printing support, games , etc. My RH install was about 600MB for this.

 

[Nothinman]

I wouldn't use RH7.3, you'll have a lot of updating to do if you do that.

I personally use Debian, but that's up to you, just use something newer. I run Courier-IMAP (stunnel for ssl) with postfix on Debian 'sarge' on a dual 300Mhz Ultra2 and havn't had a problem yet.