Any good WebMail client for Linux/FreeBSD?

I'm looking for a free WebMail client, written in C, that
understands mbox-format mailboxes, and can read them from the
filesystem (i.e. doesn't depend upon connecting with a POP or
IMAP server).

Does anyone know if such an animal exists? I've seen a bunch
of Perl- and PHP-based projects, but I would like something simple,
written in C, to do this.

Any suggestions?

- Tim

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Spammay Blockay wrote:

> I'm looking for a free WebMail client, written in C, that
> understands mbox-format mailboxes, and can read them from the
> filesystem (i.e. doesn't depend upon connecting with a POP or
> IMAP server).

.... a "webmail client"? are you wanting to say "email client"?
if so, try sylpheed or sylpheed-claws - it understands MBOX as
default. it's both an email and nntp client
..
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The only way I think a C webmail client would work would be to have a
Perl or PHP web-app call the C program. That however, is more steps than
needs to be done.
This is not a PHP group, however, if you mbox files are on a server with
Apache+PHP you can modify/write a program to run an "exec" like:

<?
echo exec('cat /var/spool/bob/bob.mbox');
?>

http://us2.php.net/function.exec

--Scott

Spammay Blockay wrote:
> I'm looking for a free WebMail client, written in C, that
> understands mbox-format mailboxes, and can read them from the
> filesystem (i.e. doesn't depend upon connecting with a POP or
> IMAP server).
>
> Does anyone know if such an animal exists? I've seen a bunch
> of Perl- and PHP-based projects, but I would like something simple,
> written in C, to do this.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> - Tim
>

/dev/scott0 wrote:

> The only way I think a C webmail client would work would be to have a
> Perl or PHP web-app call the C program. That however, is more steps than
> needs*to*be*done.

A C program could do anything PHP can, and in fact I used to create CGI
applications in C for "fun" (and for any other hardcore masochists out
there -- I recommend this exercise.)

Tim, I believe SQWebmail is written in C, but it only talks to a POP/IMAP
server. I don't personally know of any webmail projects that do not, and
I'm not sure why it would matter: imapd is simple enough to run alongside
your webmail app.

Jeffrey

/dev/scott0 wrote:
> The only way I think a C webmail client would work would be to have a
> Perl or PHP web-app call the C program.

Nah, a "web-app" can be written in any language (even a shell script).
It's not uncommon for high-volume sites to use C for CGI to avoid the
overhead of a Perl or PHP interpreter.

In article <LgtJc.3648$(E-Mail Removed) et>,
mjt <mjtobler@removethis_mail.ru> wrote:
>Spammay Blockay wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a free WebMail client, written in C, that
>> understands mbox-format mailboxes, and can read them from the
>> filesystem (i.e. doesn't depend upon connecting with a POP or
>> IMAP server).
>
>... a "webmail client"? are you wanting to say "email client"?
>if so, try sylpheed or sylpheed-claws - it understands MBOX as
>default. it's both an email and nntp client

Perhaps I should clarify -- a web-based email client.
That is, the client software resides on my ISP's machine
(I have a shell account), and I connect to it via HTTP/CGI.

- Tim

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On 2004-07-15, /dev/scott0 <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> The only way I think a C webmail client would work would be to have a
> Perl or PHP web-app call the C program. That however, is more steps than
> needs to be done.

Huh?

That's news to those of us that have written cgi programs in C.

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In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
Jeffrey Froman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>/dev/scott0 wrote:
>
>> The only way I think a C webmail client would work would be to have a
>> Perl or PHP web-app call the C program. That however, is more steps than
>> needs*to*be*done.
>
>A C program could do anything PHP can, and in fact I used to create CGI
>applications in C for "fun" (and for any other hardcore masochists out
>there -- I recommend this exercise.)
>
>Tim, I believe SQWebmail is written in C, but it only talks to a POP/IMAP
>server. I don't personally know of any webmail projects that do not, and
>I'm not sure why it would matter: imapd is simple enough to run alongside
>your webmail app.

The problem is, this has to run on my ISP's linux box, and they
don't allow daemons, but only CGI-based apps. And my disk space
is limited, and the Perl-based clients I saw were pretty huge.
I saw a few small C-based ones, but they depended on POP and IMAP
servers. Thus my question. :-)

- Tim

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In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
John-Paul Stewart <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>/dev/scott0 wrote:
>> The only way I think a C webmail client would work would be to have a
>> Perl or PHP web-app call the C program.
>
>Nah, a "web-app" can be written in any language (even a shell script).
>It's not uncommon for high-volume sites to use C for CGI to avoid the
>overhead of a Perl or PHP interpreter.

Exactly. My long programming experience has led me to prefer
natively-compiled programs for web apps (altho' I use Java all the
time, too, but my ISP doesn't support Servlets, otherwise I'd write my
own little email gateway).

- Tim

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In comp.os.linux.misc John-Paul Stewart <(E-Mail Removed)> suggested:
> /dev/scott0 wrote:
>> The only way I think a C webmail client would work would be to have a
>> Perl or PHP web-app call the C program.

> Nah, a "web-app" can be written in any language (even a shell script).
> It's not uncommon for high-volume sites to use C for CGI to avoid the
> overhead of a Perl or PHP interpreter.

IMHO it depends on the people programming the stuff and/or the
customers (if any) demands, presuming a halfway decent setup . If
you look at slashdot.org, a high traffic site can be run at
amazing speed with perl (apache + mod_perl) and AFAIR some Mysql
back-end.

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