Webmail access

[Nathan Day <Na...@ASPECTIVE.com>]

Hi,

I am happily using James as my email server for personal mail and it is
running on a Linux box connected to my home broadband connection. I am
very happy with performance and functionality. The only thing I would
like to do, but seemingly can't is access the mail boxes through a
browser.

I know IMAP support is on the way and that I could use one of the many
open source JSP/Servlet solutions out there deployed in Tomcat or
something, but are there any alternatives for me in the meantime?

Additionally, how functional is the IMAP functionality that has
currently been developed and not released? Would it be worth trying some
of the nightly source releases to play with the IMAP functionality or is
it pretty immature at this stage?

Many thanks,

Nathan

RE: Webmail access

[Jason Webb <jw...@inovem.com>]

Hi Nathan,
Just as a matter of protocol it's better to ask these sort of questions on
the server-user@james.apache.org mailing list as you'll get a lot more
feedback on what people are using for webmail.

As regards IMAP; there is not enough functionality to use yet, as messages
are not persisted to disk, but are only held in memory. I am currently
working on this, but I don't really have a time frame at the moment.

-- Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Day [mailto:Nathan.Day@ASPECTIVE.com]
> Sent: 10 May 2005 12:40
> To: general@james.apache.org
> Subject: Webmail access
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am happily using James as my email server for personal mail and it is
> running on a Linux box connected to my home broadband connection. I am
> very happy with performance and functionality. The only thing I would
> like to do, but seemingly can't is access the mail boxes through a
> browser.
> 
> I know IMAP support is on the way and that I could use one of the many
> open source JSP/Servlet solutions out there deployed in Tomcat or
> something, but are there any alternatives for me in the meantime?
> 
> Additionally, how functional is the IMAP functionality that has
> currently been developed and not released? Would it be worth trying some
> of the nightly source releases to play with the IMAP functionality or is
> it pretty immature at this stage?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Nathan