Re: Re: sqwebmail accessing IMAP

On Aug 3, 2004, at 08:40, Brendan Braybrook wrote:

>>>> i want to configure sqwebmail, so it can access IMAP server.
>>>> but i don't know what to do.
>>> That's because sqwebmail does not use an IMAP server.
>> so, sqwebmail can only be installed at sama machine with email 
>> server. is
>> that right?
>
> you could nfs mount the user's mail directories from the mail server 
> onto
> the web server.
>

This is probably the best way, if you can do it in your setup. Another 
(probably less desirable) method would be to set up a reverse proxy on 
the web server that targets sqwebmail on the mail server (on the inside 
of your network) whenever anyone hits it from the outside. -- There's 
probably some other way to make it work too, but I can't think of one 
off the top of my head, and they all have their own headaches... since 
SQWebMail is designed to run on the same machine as the mail server. 
*shrug*


>> i have problem like this:
>> i have 2 servers:
>> web server (apache, php, mysql, sqwebmail)
>> mail server (qmail, vpopmail, qmailadmin, courier-imap)
>
>> if it cannot, does anyone know another software beside sqwebmail?
>
> you might want to try squirrelmail, if you can't make sqwebmail work 
> for
> you.
>

Also... IMP/Horde, NOCC, NeoMail, blah-blah-blah... Just Google for 
"webmail client" and "webmail php" to find a bunch of the most popular 
ones.


>> (that software must have facility to change user password, it will 
>> installed
>> at web server)
>
> could be done, if you have your password file accessible over nfs.
>

But, writing (or finding :) a script/program on one machine that talks 
to the other securely and does it would probably be just as good and 
hopefully as easy. It's another option at least -- especially if your 
passwords aren't actually going to be stored in a password file, but in 
a database (LDAP/SQL/etc.) instead you might find that more doable.

-jab