Another OT Question - HTTP Mail Service

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 04:28:16PM -0400, Steve Campbell wrote:
> Sorry for the 2nd OT question today.
>
> Someone asked me how they could access our mail server by setting up Outlook
> accounts by using the HTTP server type (similar to Hotmail, etc).
>
> What type of server is Hotmail really running and what does the "HTTP"
> designation mean as far as protocols etc. Is there something I would have to
> do to make my server accessable when accounts are set up this way to my
> server?
>
> Again, thanks and sorry.

I don't know about hotmail, but I imagine what you need is a web server
such as apache and somesort of bridge application like squirrelmail.
squirrelmail talks to your imap daemon and presents users' mailboxes as
web pages served by apache.

hope that helps,
Eric Rz.

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