Webmail

[Alan]

Ok, something I want to get sorted out is access to my email from anywhere, currently im checking 3xPOP email boxes through MS Outlook, I know there are some webmail clients out there that you can configure to read POP email and present it through a web interface.

Does anyone have any experience or advice on systems ? preferably using AJAX, PHP, MySQL

Zimbra - looks lush, but you need root to install so not possible for a host acct

Horde - looked nice too but it will try to install to a MySQL database called "Horde" which my host wont allow, all my SQL db's are prefixed with my domain name

 

[nath]

You could just use www.mail2web.com - nothing needs to be installed, just punch in your pop details and access away.

 

[Athan]

Avoid Horde/IMP, it's god-damned awful to admin and keep working. 'We' switched to Squirrelmail instead, which whilst not perfect is a lot better. Having said that I'm quite sure you could rejig Horde to use a different database name if you really wanted to use it.

-Ath

 

[anattic]

Another vote for Squirrelmail here. It's not perfect, but it's good enough for most users (http://www.squirrelmail.org btw).

 

[KevinUK]

What you want is http://roundcube.net/ :worthy:

Everyone on those forums switched from squirrelmail to roundcube.

Its in early beta and its best to go to the forums and get the latest CVS build instead of the public beta.

The only problem is I think you cannot open attachments though I could be wrong, although it is an early release. The UI is great and it uses AJAX.

 

[Alan]

roundcube is IMAP not POP noticed it yesterday.

 

[anattic]

Ah, if you're stuck with POP3, squirrelmail's no good either, sadly.

 

[Insane]

I have ran UebiMiau on my host for over a year with no major problems, my first contact with it was through Nildram who run an earlier version for their webmail system, my current setup uses the PHPmail option since my service provider's SMTP setup is a bit cack-handed and doesnt want to work at the best of times.

url is http://www.uebimiau.org/
i think you can set it up with multiple mail servers within the configuration, but not certain.

 

[KevinUK]

RoundCube does IMAP and Pop3. I use it for both

 

[Alan]

RoundCube does IMAP and Pop3. I use it for both

Strange the docs/faq says IMAP only, someone posted on the forums asking for POP3 support and was told its not in the current build.

 

[KevinUK]

Hmm, I was doing pop3 directly to my server then, my bad

 

[Alan]

The Dogs Bollocks

Found one :-

http://phlymail.de/en/phlymail/lite/

The lite version is FREE for personal use, still playing around with it but so far it does exactly what I want.

- Pulls emails from my 3 POP3 email addresses
- Allows me to create folders and sub fodlers to store these emails in
- All data is stored in a mySQL database, easy to backup
- Nice interface - VERY nice actualy

Still early days, but it looks like everything I wanted, only downside is it requires PHP5 so had to upgrade my test box at home (and my hosting company is still on PHP4 grrr - but im planning on changing anyway)

 

[Killswitch]

Sorry Alan, I'm a little late here

Not sure what level of access you have at your hosting company, but what I've done is used Fetchmail to grab the mail from 3-4 POP3 accounts (but could be hundreds or thousands I guess, if you have the bandwidth and disk) and then used Dovecot IMAP server (this is all on my home box). Basically means I can use Thunderbird at home and all the mail from all my accounts comes to one place. Also means I can use maildrop to filter mail into different folders based on their subject (or whatever) and then no matter how I access the mail (thunderbird at work via VPN, thunderbird at home, webmail or mutt via SSH) I always get the same view of the mail folders. No need to set filtering rules on my clients and no risk of mail being "eaten" by one client and not available on another.

It only took me a couple of hours to set up qmail, fetchmail, maildrop, dovecot, squirrelmail, clamav, qsheff (anti-spam) and get it all working and
tested. If I was doing it again, I'd probably use Postfix and RoundCube.

As an aside, we use Squirrelmail at all our clients sites for remote mail access and we've never had any problems with it

 

[Penguin]

Thanks for sharing RoundCube - I've finally got around to installing it and i love it already. Now all it needs is a more complex message editor (For bold, fonts etc.)

Looks better than Squirrel Mail and much much faster than Horde.