On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:14:58PM +0000, Rob Kendrick wrote: [lots of good reasons for using IMAP snipped]
What I'd find really useful is a WebMail application that will let me read a tree of mbox mailboxes on a remote server.
Just install an IMAP and be done with. You'll find it's almost certainly quicker having a webmail client talk IMAP to to the server, which then handles the files on disc. It'll be faster, and give you more choice over which webmail client you use. Which is why IMAP is exactly the right thing for them to talk.
Ah, but I can't, my mail is on a Linux box where my web pages are hosted. I have a user login shell, CGI privileges, etc. but I can't install an IMAP server because that would need root access.
Nearly all of the time I access my mail using mutt running on the Linux box and that is a near perfect solution that I can access from anywhere.
However I *occasionally* want access to my mail using a GUI client and, for that, a Webmail server that could access my mbox files would be the ideal solution.
(I know that it isn't an *absolute* necessity to have root access to install an IMAP server, but to use the standard IMAP port you need it)