Another OT Question - HTTP Mail Service

[David J. Duffner - NWCWEB.com]

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>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
>Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 4:58 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Another OT Question - HTTP Mail Service
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>On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 04:49:06PM -0400, Steve Campbell wrote:
>> This particular user tried setting up the account using
>>"HTTP" as the server type and pointing it to our webmail, but that
>> didn't work.
>>
>> > 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.
>
>In that case, I'm afraid I don't have clue what you're talking
>about ...
>
>-Eric Rz.

        Seems like he's looking for what Hotmail does with Outlook
& OE, the ability to pull e-mail from an HTTP-based server vs. an
IMAP or POP3 server.  Not sure if there are any out there beyond
Hotmail's miserable setup that likes to flake out every 30 minutes
or so and is sluggish as hell.

        Did note the newer version of Outlook have the ability to
hook to an HTTP mail server, but it appears it's still rather
locked down to Hotmail.  Haven't found a single server or module
that provides HTTP mail serving, simply because of all the freebie
options to suck POP3 mail into a web-based account or just using
the POP3's.  So I'm guessing the demand is so slight (at least to
devlopers) that no one's spending the time or resources on building
one?

      David J. Duffner
      VP Operations
      NWC Corporation
      NWCWEB.com

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