[Kroupware] Web interface frontend

[Miles Lott]

The important thing with any webmail frontend to kroupware, et al
would NOT be its ability to interface with a particular server.
Unless, of course, kroupware aims to be the actual server.  The
important
thing is that the standard they create is able to be interpreted at
within the client.  IMAP webmail clients are many, and a few are very
good.  Considering that the majority of these would be written in a
scripting
language, will the standard be able to be interpreted by them in
those languages?

Lutz Badenheuer wrote:
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> Am Donnerstag, 26. September 2002 11:34 schrieb Martin Konold:
> > Lutz Badenheuer wrote:
> > > internal mail storage. It just does not login via IMAP to read
> > > mail, but instead directly reads the Maildir. This avoids forcing
> > > data over
> >
> > This basically means you must setup unix users which we do not
> > like. IMAP/Email users shall not get a unix account in our setup.
> 
> I have read the architecture paper, and I know that system accounts
> are not wanted. :)
> 
> I didn't know that my english was SO bad. No, sqwebmail does NOT need
> a system account for any user. It is designed to work with Courier
> IMAP, both support pure virtual accounts similar to Cyrus. The simple
> thing that has to be done for virtual user is to take a username and
> resolve it to the attributes "userPassword" and "homeDirectory". It
> does not make any difference for Coutier's MDA and Courier's MUA
> (sqwebmail, pop3d, imapd) whether this info is resolved by
> /etc/passwd (this would be a system account) or any other sort of
> database (this includes LDAP).
> 
> Think of sqwebmail as just another MUA with virtual account support.
> 
> There is only one problem with sqwebmail: it has to run on the same
> host where the (virtual) users Maildirs live, or use another way to
> access that file system.
> 
> Possibly you may have a look at http://www.inter7.com/sqwebmail/ or
> http://matt.simerson.net/computing/mail/toaster/ which is a setup for
> FreeBSD, qmail, Courier IMAP and sqwebmail using pure virtual users.
> I ported it do Debian recently...
> 
> Kind regards,
> Lutz
> 
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