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// Clint is responding to message 89 from April 29, on WebMail
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Hello all!

I'm also quite interested in this issue -- can webmail be made to
work like Thunderbird or some other desktop email client? Thus far,
the best-looking solution I've come across is Communik8r
(http://www.communik8r.org), an application for the open-source
phpGroupWare framework. However, Communik8r is currently in the alpha
stages, lacking critical features such as 'reply'.

Has anyone else seen a webmail application that will do something of
the sort? I know that for me, support and security really aren't
issues -- I just want to be able to run a 'home away from home' on my
personal website that will check all of my email accounts at once and
let me know if I have new mail in any of them. Unfortunately, it
looks like Postman won't be an option, as the hosting solution I'm
going with probably wouldn't take too kindly to me running random
binaries -- so I'm going to have to find a PHP/MySQL based solution.
Does anyone know of any packages that might possibly work?

Clint Olson
http://www.olsonnetwork.com

Jack Stewart <virtualjack@p...> wrote:

> lnxuser2002 wrote:
>
> > Well actually, there is (or was). jwebmail
> > (http://jwebmail.sourceforge.net) does allow this. But this
> > doesn't seem to be an active project with the last update
> > in 2002. I was wondering if any of the more recent webmail
> > clients offer this facility - either as a native feature,
> > patch or workaround.
>
> Postman also supports multiple mail folders but I don't really
> recommend the software even though we are using it. As an
> aside, the program uses )" as a record seperator which creates
> some odd results if a password contains )".
>
> It may be something to watch for in other programs.
>
> There is nothing in principle that should prevent you from
> allowing connections to other imap servers as long as you
> are comfortable with the support (and potential security)
> implications. For these reasons we have specifically
> excluded multiple imap servers even though the software
> will allow it.
>
> ---Jack
>
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