Imap / Squirrelmail

[glassgorilla]

I am trying to be able to get webmail viewable from wireless devices. Is there any way I can edit squirrelmail files to allow this? Or is this something that is shared or something and cannot be edited? I downloaded squirrelmail from sourceforge and haven't looked too deeply into it but I do recognize that is it probably out of my league to try to install it to my domain. I could write my own script (I think) because I just want a simple, simple script that can show me mails and maybe send them, but I don't have any clue as to how to use IMAP.

 

Can anyone tell me if I can modify squirrelmail files to be wireless friendly or what imap configurations need to be done?

 

Thanks.

[borfast]

Squirrel mail is installed at server level, so as you guessed, no, it can't be edited.

 

I think that you could try to install it yourself into your account. If you say you could write your own script, I can't see why you wouldn't be able to install Squirrelmail.

 

But what do you mean by "get webmail viewable from wireless devices"? Do you mean embedded devices, like cell phones, PDAs and such? I believe that as long as the device has an HTML browser and internet access, you don't need to change anything in the server - except perhaps the layout of the served pages, because you'll be seing them in a much smaller screen, so they should probably be optimized.

[glassgorilla]

I do mean things such as cell phones and PDAs. I'm not sure what you mean by "change anything in the server". All I would need to change (or at least I don't see why I would need to change anything else) is the display files for the mail, such as (making these up) inbox.php and read_message.php (I guess that's what you mean by "layout of the served pages"... you're just using smart people talk). But as you said, I can't change the one installed at the server level and I don't know the information that I would need to enter into the config file if I tried to install it myself. And for the record, I don't care if it's squirrelmail or not, but of the three that are serverinstalled, that seems to be the plainest. I think getting rid of all the unnecessary html and the formatting html and just displaying the actual text would be much easier through that.

 

I suppose I will try to install squirrelmail. I guess it probably can't be that hard. I wrote a private messaging system for wireless devices and it is basically the same thing as e-mail except it's just short messages stored in mysql. I wrote it as an alternative to Sprint's shortmail. I figured if my text messages have to be web-based, might as well make a good webbased messaging system. But that's another story...

[borfast]

I said you don't need to change anything in the server because I thought you thought there was some kind of special protocol or special code that needed to be inserted/changed in Squirrelmail to make it work. Many people think that's necessary, just like many people think you need a special web server in order to serve WAP pages when the only thin you need is to add the corresponding MIME-type in the Apache configuration. In fact, this kind of thing is so common, many webhosting companies take advantage of that and include WAP as a supported feature of their services. And the same applies to Java when they do not support Java but what they usually mean is that the client may use Java applets in his pages - the server has nothing to do with the client being able to use Java applets in his pages.

 

Well, I guess I made myself clear, now. So...

 

Give Squirrelmail a try.

 

I know you can change it's layout (yes, the display files), though I don't know how easy it is to do it. I don't know if it uses templates (meaning the presentational code is not on the same files as the application code, which is much easier to update than if the app code and the presentation code is all in one file) but I know I've seen Squirrelmail with a completely different look than the default one.

 

Either way, it's just a matter of looking through Squirrelmail's documentation, asking in their mailing list, e-mailing one of the developers...

Edited July 17, 2004 by TCH-Raul

[glassgorilla]

I didn't give the whole template thing a deep look but it looks as though squirrelmail does use templates, but the templates are just a list of variables of colors and such, so I imagine the app code is fairly intertwined with the presentational code. I guess more properly squirrelmail seems to use themes rather than templates.

 

I did install it, however. I don't think I would have been able to do it, but on this forum there is a very helpful (and recent I believe) tutorial on installing it. Some of the variables I never would have gotten correct in a million years, such as $imap_server_type = 'uw'.. Anyway, thanks for the helpful nudges, I would have given up a long time ago if it didn't involve letting you down

 

I guess it's on to chopping this bad boy up so it's WAP compatible.

 

Thanks again.

[borfast]

Glad you have it working

 

I did forget to mention that tutorial (yes, it's very recent and written by a TCH customer ) but I'm glad you found it.

 

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