Mail@Web

MAIL@WEB development version

1. Introduction

mail@web is a web based client written in Perl. It enables users to check
their POP3mail using a brwoser.

2. Features

+Mulitiuser

+Handles POP3 servers

+Deals with mime attachments

+Can reply and send attachments.

3. Requirements

+Perl 5 has to be installed.

+Needs the following perl modules to be installed

-MD5

-Mail::Pop3Client

-Mime-tools

-Mime::Base64

-Mime::QuotedPrint

-Net::SMTP

+A web server with CGI access. So far mail@web has been tested on apache

4. Availability

+Available at the Sourceforge site

5. Installation

In this example, the web server root will be at

/usr/local/apache/htdocs

and the cgi-bin will be located at

/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin

First download the below perl modules from http://www.cpan.org

-MD5

-Mail::Pop3Client

-Mime-tools

-Mime::Base64

-Mime::QuotedPrint

-Net::SMTP

Note that most of these modules have other prerequisite modulea

therefore be sure to read their README files before installation.

After installing the modules copy the following steps

#mv mailweb0.1.tar.gz /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin

#cd /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin

/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin# gunzip mailweb0.1.tar.gz

/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin# tar -xvf mailweb0.1.tar

/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin# cp index.htm /usr/local/apache/htdocs

/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin# cd /usr/local/apache/htdocs

/usr/local/apache/htdocs# ln -s /tmp ./tmp

Edit the index file so that it points to the cgi-bin location.

Also in the same index file, edit the server value "sims.csusb.edu by

replacing it with your POP server.

chown the index.html if you have to so as for it to work on your server.

Go to the cgi-bin where you utared the program

edit neutral.htm by changing $domain to the corresponding "\@yourdomain.com"<
>
chmod the cgi-bin files as suited by your server. Also chown files as suited

by your server. (notice mine is owned by bin and is group bin).