Re: [Sheflug] web-based email setup

["Morris, David \(Allvac, UK\)" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Subject: [Sheflug] web-based email setup
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> Dear All
> 
> I'd like to setup an email server on a home server so that I 
> can manage emails on it via a web browser either at home (on 
> different machines) or remotely. At the moment I use 
> evolution to get emails from various accounts 
> (david.willington@xxxxxxxxxxxx and a couple of others). I'd 
> like to retrieve these every 10 minutes or so to a server at 
> home and store and manage them on the server. I think what I 
> need is an imap server and something like squirrel mail but 
> I'm very vague on this whole area. Can someone point me in 
> the right direction please?

I use Courier and Squirel to do just that. Courier has it's own
(sqwebmail) web interface, but squirrel is nicer! Sqwebmail is cgi,
Squirrel is php - that may affect your decision. The overall solution
may be a bit heavyweight for what you want though, but it works for me.
The only other thing you'd need if your ISP isn't delivering SMTP
message in to you is something like fetchmail or getmail. I use
fetchmail, but getmail would also work. Fetchmail delivers by smtp
injection back into your own server; getmail can process messages
straight into Maildir format. Depending on your configuration for
outgoing mail, you may not actually need anything other than sendmail
and an IMAP server with getmail. getmail is written in python. I think
fetchmail is C.

I run fetchmail in daemon mode, checking mailboxes every 5 minutes. It
kicks off @reboot from a cron file.

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