Path: usenet.cise.ufl.edu!huron.eel.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!globalcenter1!news.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!199.2.96.62!news.rain.net!news.teleport.com!not-for-mail From: "Ryan Alyn Porter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: Announce: MailMan Web<->Mail Gateway (free) Followup-To: comp.lang.perl.misc Date: 7 Sep 1997 15:16:07 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Lines: 42 Sender: news-merlyn@gadget.cscaper.com Approved: merlyn@stonehenge.com (comp.lang.perl.announce) Message-ID: <5uugfn$nmo$1@nadine.teleport.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gadget.cscaper.com X-Disclaimer: The "Approved" header verifies header information for article transmission and does not imply approval of content. Xref: usenet.cise.ufl.edu comp.lang.perl.announce:19 comp.lang.perl.misc:5518 Announement: Endymion Corporation's MailMan v1.1 has been posted to the Endymion Corporation web site (http://www.endymion.com/) at http://www.endymion.com/portfolio/software/scripts/mailman.htm . The script is free for anyone to download, no strings attached. MailMan is a simple script written in Perl5 which uses the CGI protocol to allow users to read and send email through standard POP3 and SMTP servers from any form-capable web browser. MailMan presents an interface which is roughly similar (although much simpler) to the interfaces provided by many of free Internet email services popping up all over lately. The difference is that MailMan allows individual sites to own and control their own private Web<->Mail gateway, without depending upon an outside service. MailMan is designed for users who are away from their desks, in conjunction with a 'primary' mail reading program. By default, it does not delete messages from the server. The MailMan script is easily installed on any web server and can communicate with POP3 and SMTP servers which are not necessarily co-located. The MailMan script is designed to be downloaded and installed by people with little or no experience with CGI, Perl, POP3, SMTP, etc. MailMan has no dependencies, it handles SMTP, POP3, and CGI internally so that there is only one file to download. The only requirements are Perl5 and a CGI-capable web server. MailMan has been tested on both Unix and NT servers, as well as a wide variety of POP3 and SMTP servers, including the very strict QMail server. MailMan can be 'customized' when it is installed, to reflect the look and feel of a particular web site. It can also be configured in a personalized mode, which allows users to use their own initialization files, complete with signatures, preset 'From' lines, and preset server addresses. In this personalized mode, MailMan can also use the host web server for authentication by storing the user's POP3 password in an initialization file on the server, if the user so desires. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ryan Alyn Porter Endymion rap@endymion.com President Corporation http://www.endymion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- .