Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss

email remote access

3 views
Skip to first unread message

Drew McBee

unread,
Sep 10, 2002, 10:29:41 AM9/10/02
to
My e-mail server is a quad-cpu IBM PC Server with 10 scsi drives over
software raid running RH 7.3 / 2.4.18-3. I'm using sendmail and a Sophos
product called mailmonitor to scan everything that goes port 25. All works
well.
That said - The company wants to enable traveling users to access their
e-mail on the road from a web-type interface via a dial up ( could be ANY
isp- AOL, etc. - but they won't be connecting directly to us ) . I have no
experience at all with something like that but it seems as though it would
be relatively simple. Is there generic html out there that I could simply
modify and hang on the web? Couldn't seem to find much in the web about it.

Thanks -
Drew M


_____________________

Drew McBee
Network Administrator
Tradesmen International
6830 Cochran Rd.
Solon, OH 44139
1-440-996-3141 direct line
1-440-349-3432 x2141
1-800-573-0850 x2141

drew....@tradesmeninternational.com
www.tradesmeninternational.com

Andy

unread,
Sep 10, 2002, 10:01:42 AM9/10/02
to
"Drew McBee" <dmc...@tradesmen-intl.com> wrote in message
news:egmf9.5515$i84.4330@fe02...

> My e-mail server is a quad-cpu IBM PC Server with 10 scsi drives over
> software raid running RH 7.3 / 2.4.18-3. I'm using sendmail and a Sophos
> product called mailmonitor to scan everything that goes port 25. All works
> well.
> That said - The company wants to enable traveling users to access
their
> e-mail on the road from a web-type interface via a dial up ( could be ANY
> isp- AOL, etc. - but they won't be connecting directly to us ) . I have no
> experience at all with something like that but it seems as though it would
> be relatively simple. Is there generic html out there that I could simply
> modify and hang on the web? Couldn't seem to find much in the web about
it.
>
> Thanks -
> Drew M
>

you'll need a web server on site and a script. eg. www.horde.org which has
imp for php. That interfaces by Imap so you need that actually running on
the mail server. (apache/webserver could be on another pc doesnt have to be)

Andy


James Knott

unread,
Sep 10, 2002, 9:01:48 PM9/10/02
to
Drew McBee wrote:

> My e-mail server is a quad-cpu IBM PC Server with 10 scsi drives over
> software raid running RH 7.3 / 2.4.18-3. I'm using sendmail and a Sophos
> product called mailmonitor to scan everything that goes port 25. All works
> well.
> That said - The company wants to enable traveling users to access
> their
> e-mail on the road from a web-type interface via a dial up ( could be ANY
> isp- AOL, etc. - but they won't be connecting directly to us ) . I have no
> experience at all with something like that but it seems as though it would
> be relatively simple. Is there generic html out there that I could simply
> modify and hang on the web? Couldn't seem to find much in the web about
> it.
>

There are two separate issues here. One is a mail server and the other is
connecting to it. Many ISPs over encrypted tunneling to a company network.
Failing that, you'd have to set up some type of VPN to the company netowork.

--

Fundamentalism is fundamentally wrong.

To reply to this message, replace everything to the left of "@" with
james.knott.

Barry Simple

unread,
Sep 11, 2002, 2:25:09 PM9/11/02
to
Squirrel Mail ( http://www.squirrelmail.org/ )
allows you to serve mail through your PHP-enabled HTTP server
requires IMAP access to your mailboxes

Alex Ivascu

unread,
Sep 11, 2002, 11:39:12 PM9/11/02
to

I'm in the process of setting up a VPN server on my RH7.3, to allow
users to get access to the network remotely (including email server).
Here's where I started:
http://hkes.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=40

Hope this helps.

Alex Ivascu
Database/Systems administrator

nMetric

Tel.: 714-424-4406
Cell: 909-264-5144
http://www.nmetric.com/

Bala.

unread,
Sep 12, 2002, 3:36:45 AM9/12/02
to
Hi,

http://www.emumail.com/

Please try this one for web access of your mails...

For this you need Apache server to be running in your server.

Bye.

Barry Simple <nos...@netnews.mchsi.com> wrote in message news:<9ULf9.447019$UU1.71493@sccrnsc03>...

Jorey Bump

unread,
Sep 13, 2002, 9:04:05 PM9/13/02
to
Drew McBee wrote:

> That said - The company wants to enable traveling users to access
> their
> e-mail on the road from a web-type interface via a dial up ( could be ANY
> isp- AOL, etc. - but they won't be connecting directly to us ) . I have no
> experience at all with something like that but it seems as though it would
> be relatively simple. Is there generic html out there that I could simply
> modify and hang on the web? Couldn't seem to find much in the web about
> it.

SquirrelMail is now available as an rpm for Red Hat. Make sure you run it
with SSL (accessible via https://) to prevent password sniffing.

You should also consider running an ssh server so your more advanced users
can log in and use mutt or pine. It's more secure, much faster (even on a
dialup connection), and they'll love you for it.

0 new messages