I got my first email account back in 1996. Back then, Juno and AOL were the big boys on the block and Microsoft was just being a pest by offering free email at Hotmail. Since then, I’ve become an email-account junkie. I have an account at Yahoo, Gmail, UC, work, and two at Hotmail. Since I’ve gotten this domain, I’ve added my wyatt at hackerforhire dot org account. Now of course, this requires having some sort of access to the email, either a client like Outlook or use a web mail solution. I’d have to say the best way to go is web mail access. For us open source folk, there aren’t that many *good* options for web mail. I know, I’ve looked. When I installed the server, I went through all 2 that Gentoo had builds for and the other 20 on Freshmeat that looked like they had some sort of potential. They were all pretty much sub-par. So I stuck with Squirrel Mail. It wasn’t the best looking or the most user-friendly interface, but at least I could check my mail without it exploding and dying horribly. Then I found this new one that I’m liking a lot. It’s called RoundCube Mail. It was posted on slashdot about a week and a half ago and it reminded me that I still had it “installed.”
When I say installed, I mean I unpacked it, attempted to do a base configuration, futzed with it a bit, and didn’t read the documentation…like a true engineer. Of course, I had my issues with it. I couldn’t get it to connect to my IMAP daemon properly, the system couldn’t see itself as a server, and just other general BS. But seeing the article reminded me about my hacked install, and I figured I would give it a second shot. So I went back through the install, this time reading the…um…”documentation.” Still had the same problems that I did last time. So I got the crazy idea, why not try to use just plain IMAP instead of SSL IMAP, I mean, the worst is that someone on my server could look at the traffic I’m sending to myself over the loopback interface. So a tweak here and a tweak there, shazam! It works! And I have to say, this is how you should write a web mail client. The interface is relatively intuitive (could use some really tiny font), and the actual way the application flow is pretty slick too. I think I’m going to have to dig into it a little more to try and figure out why the SSL doesn’t work right. It will be a good opportunity to give back to the community, though not on the scope that Tim mentioned last week.
Joe Rocklin says:
I’m gonna have to hack into your box so I can watch the lo traffic now to see your emails!! That’s right – you just told the whole world how to read your ultra-secure emails!
Okay, so maybe not – anyway looks pretty cool! Can’t say I like the red colors used on their demo (I like blues and greens more), but like any good css design, that can probably be changed super easily.
On another note – you and tim and I should all have accounts on each others blogs – not posting rights, but at least on my the spam karma is set up to trust people above a certain level, and that would ensure no posts were ever sent to the bit-bucket from you guys.
19 October 2005, 9:15 amWyatt says:
Tim isn’t going to get an account until he give me an email address that isn’t for spam. I’d say not until he posts me on his blog roll, but chances are there are people who read his blog that might be offended by the posts in mine.
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I was about to attempt to make squirrelmail entirley CSS based, and then redesign it to incorporate AJAX. Hopefully this will work with my qmail install to spare me some work!
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