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| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) |
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference |
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM |
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| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 10068 |
| Total number of notes: | 35879 |
8991.0. "Webmail - a web frontend for MH available" by NETRIX::"[email protected]" (Detlef Schmier) Thu Feb 27 1997 16:05
Have a look under http://www.rto.dec.com/~webmail/mail !
User = webmail, password = webmail
You can read and send mails from/to this demo login
([email protected]).
You can find a kit under http://www.rto.dec.com/Webmail
Have fun
Detlef.
*** DIGITAL Internal Use Only ***
Introduction
Webmail is a frontend CGI (Common Gateway Interface) application which
uses MH for read/write your mails. If your MH environment is fully
setup, you don't need to do any more on it.
Webmail supports
* Read your mail with every browser who knows JavaScript 1.1 (for
example Netscape 3.01)
* MIME
* Inline HTML (between <HTML> and </HTML>)
* Expansion as anchor of "http://" and "ftp://" text within mails.
Prerequisits
Your mhpath must be $HOME/Mail !
The user must have a $HOME/public_html !
The user must have an entry in htpasswd !
You do need the munpack/mpack utility in /usr/local/bin !
You can copy the binaries from my machine or from it's original
location.
Installation
Create an entry in htpasswd or whatever your httpd is using for user
authorization.
This username must be the same as the username of your webmail user.
Login as the user you want to install webmail.
Create the folder "wastebasket" under your mhpath.
% cd $HOME/Mail
% mkdir wastebasket
% chmod 0750 wastebasket
Create the directory $HOME/public_html (if needed), change the
directory to it and extract webmail.tar.
% cd $HOME
% tar xvf webmail.tar
Change the group of the mail directory to your http-group.
% chgrp -R http mail
Don't allow others to access your mail directory.
% chmod -R o-rwx mail
Set the set-user-ID permission for the CGI program.
% chmod u+s mail/webmail.cgi
Modify mail/.htaccess and mail/mtmp/.htaccess to have the correct
username in it.
% vi mail/.htaccess mail/mtmp/.htaccess
Change the line AuthUserFile if needed and change the line
"require user detlef" to "require user <USERNAME>"
Users guide
Compose Delete Previous
Forward Sort Show
Reply Pack Next
Anchor Description MH command
Compose Compose new mail comp -noedit -nowhatnowproc
message -file $HOME/Mail/draft
Delete Remove current message refile %MSG% +wastebasket
Previous Show the previous prev +%FOLDER%
message
Forward Forward current message forw %MSG% +%FOLDER% -noedit
-nowhatnowproc
Sort Sort current folder sortm +%FOLDER%
Show Show current message show +%FOLDER% %MSG%
Reply Reply to current repl %MSG% +%FOLDER% -noedit
message -nowhatnowproc
Pack Pack current folder none (renumber messages in
current folder)
Next Show the next message next +%FOLDER%
Select Show selected folder scan +%FOLDER% -form scan.form
Refile File current message refile %MSG% +%FOLDER%
into selected folder
* Klick on the biff ([Image] or [Image]) image to incorporate new mails.
* Configure you MH environment.
* If you reply to a message the original message will be copied into
your document with leading '> ' and if the file "$HOME/.mh_trailer"
exists, this file will be appended at the end.
* If you delete mails, they will be refiled into the wastebasket folder.
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