Re: [lias] Re: [SLUG] Webmail - advice sought

["Simon Bryan" <sbryan@nospam.olmc.nsw.edu.au>]

If I am reading it right IMP provides a webmail interface to POP3/IMAP so 
that I would not have to add a mail client to each machine - just use the 
browser?

> On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Simon Bryan wrote:
> 
> > Yes I had also thought along those lines. When I started with all this
> > the thought of adding 900 users to Linux was a daunting thought -I guess
> > seniors only would be about 300 initially and the 150 on and off each
> > year - and all I really new was adduser on the command line and manually
> > editing the password file to remove them again. You tend to get into a
> > mindset after a while. Also we would have to add a mail client to all
> > our machines (we deliberatley did not install OE or netscape Mail), and
> > I am still a novice when it comes to managing Sendmail. Wheras webmail
> > will run with the existing browsers.
> 
> As has been mentioned - adding and deleting the accounts is the leasst of
> your worries. Script processing of this sort is run at University's around
> the country, if not the world, every semester. I'm sure one of the more
> knowlegable from a Uni somewhere could give pointers.
> 
> Adding a mail client to the machines could be more trouble than it's worth
> - so maybe going the webmail method is your best bet after all.
> 
> DaZZa



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Simon Bryan                    sbryan@nospam.olmc.nsw.edu.au
Information Technology Manager sbryan@nospam.mpx.com.au
OLMC Parramatta
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