Webmail interface for POP3 mail.. Has it been done?
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Sorry for the late answer, I refreshed the screen often for your answer, but going your post to the second page cheated me, and I will have to go offline soon.
I do not think there are any pop3 settings necessary.
What neomail needs are these:
- know where your unix mailboxes are, the necessary permissions on these mailboxes to be able to read and delete messages,
- to have appropriate permissions on its own (neomail) directory, where it creates temporary indexes on the contents of your mailboxes to speed up access while reading the boxes, and also creates directories for storing sent mails and user settings,
- know where your MTA is, to be able to send mails
I think if you check all of the above, neomail should work. My neomail.conf file is empty, though my mailboxes are in /var/mail. (Just an idea: what if you copied your mailbox to /var/mail/mailboxname, just to see if your messages show up? Then you would know neomail looks for the messages in the wrong place)
Also: I do not think neomail should fail reading any mailboxes without an error message. It is only possible if neomail tries to read a non-existin mailbox file, so it thinks there are no messages.
A last idea: maybe your mail directory should be world-executable in order that neomail can see the files in there?
If it works, you may leave it so (a bit risky) or try to fine-tune things so that neomail can read and write the mailboxes without the world-writeable and world-executable attributes set on the mail directory (I do not know if it is possible, though, you might try to use group mail).
Actually I use webmin to get my mail as well as configure the server end of it. If you look under the usermin part, you can set it up to check a pop3 account and you get all the basic functionality of a web based email client. I didn't want to go through the issues of setting up one more piece of software for those who use my system very infrequently. Just thought I'd give my 2 cents. Hope that helps you out! Also, if you are looking for more functionality, the other web based email programs (squirrel mail, etc.) work wonders.
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