[CLUE-Tech] PHP question for Grant

[Brandon N]

There are several PHP applications that do this, IMP, phpGroupware just
to name two, search freshmeat and sourceforge for php and email and I'm
sure you'll find more.

Brandon
imothy C. Klein" <teece at silverklein.net> wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> This talk about PHP has me wondering.  I have just barely started to
> look into developing a web mail-interface for my home machine. (As in
> a
> MUA that is embedded in or is a web page, with the mail residing in
> normal form on my machine)  SSH and mutt sure would be the easiest,
> but
> I spend 40 hours a week behind a braindead corporate proxy that only
> allows telnet out-bound.  I don't let telnet in on my machine, so
> that
> is out.
> 
> So, I have found a package called mhonarc that can make my mailboxes
> into html, and this could be scripted, but I am thinkng of something
> that might be a bit more interactive.  (Ie, send and delete from
> within
> a web page, threading of messages is a must, multiple mail boxes).
> 
> Now I am a web development newbie.  Any thought on what would be best
> for this?  Should I try to create some scipts with bash or pearl that
> get mhonarc to do the job (which is seems like it would, but kinda
> kludgy--It is really a program for archiving).  Would PHP be able to
> help with something like this, or is it strictly for databases?  Or
> should I just write a Java applet?  (That would probably be some
> work.)
> Or would CGI and C be the best? Whatever the solution, a mail parsing
> library is a must, as I don't really feal like doing all that myself,
> too error prone and time-consuming.
> 
> Of course there are serious security considerations here that would
> have
> to be addressed before I could turn this up, so the tool must also
> allow
> some kind of strong encryption and authentication.  But all in all,
> this
> sounds like a fun project that will 'scratch an itch' to use the
> words of
> ESR.
> 
> Thanks for any input,
> Tim
> 
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 04:43:02PM -0700, Kevin Cullis wrote:
> > Grant,
> > 
> > I saw on a recent post that you're using PHP and you like it.  What
> > benefits do you see from using it?  The reason?  An organization
> wants
> > to put together a web site and we're deciding on some technologies,
> and
> > I'm for Open Source, of course, and I'm looking for ammo to promote
> > Linux as a good solution as well a promote Open Source to new
> people. 
> > Any feedback you can give would be helpful.
> > 
> > Kevin
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