Pegasus Mail & Mercury

i have a lot of users working with a very heavy security restriction and they are not able to get/send their email using pop3/imap4/smtp through internet

I know mercury have not implemented (yet) a httpmail protocol to get/send email using port 80 and/or http protocol but I’m looking for any utility ( i think will be very similar to stunnel concept) to do this job

Someone have any experience about this topic?

 

regards

I have been using SquirrelMail for more than a year and it works great.  You can find it here:  http://www.squirrelmail.org/download.php.  It is very easy to setup and works great with Mercury.  I use personally when I travel to get to my mail.

yes, it's true but many users need/want to use a local mail client instead to webmail and there is the need to find this kind of utility.

 

 

vmgracia:

yes, it's true but many users need/want to use a local mail client instead to webmail and there is the need to find this kind of utility.

There is Mr Postman that allows the users to get their mail via POP3 from a web mailer.  MrPostman is a java program that allows you to access Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and other webmail services directly from your favorite mail client.  It converts the web pages of your favorite webmail provider to e-mails and provides the standard POP interface to your mail client (e.g. Outlook Express, Netscape or Mozilla Mail, Thunderbird, Pegasus Mail).  MrPostman is Free Software, released under the terms of the GNU Public License.

Currently supported webmail providers:

• Hotmail
• mail.com
• Yahoo
• gmail (Google mail)
• indiatimes.com
• juno
• rediffmail
• Gossamer mail
• Outlook Web Access (Exchange 5.5)
• Outlook Web Access 2003
• Caramail, Lycos.fr
• SquirrelMail

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mrpostman/

It does support SquirrelMail so you do not have to open up more than port 80 to the outside world. 

If you do not want to do it this way then you are going to try to get directly to ports 110 via port 80 and so you will have to be running some web application on your web server to perform this task. I would worry a whole lot more that web application than opening port 110 on your router and passing them directly to Mercury/32.

 

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Thomas R. Stephenson
San Jose, California
Member of Pegasus Mail Support Team

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vmgracia:

I know mercury have not implemented (yet) a httpmail protocol to get/send email using port 80 and/or http protocol but I’m looking for any utility ( i think will be very similar to stunnel concept) to do this job

Try NetCat. The official page is here http://netcat.sourceforge.net/ and the Win32 port is avalable here http://pintday.org/downloads/netcat/

 

Best regards,

Nico

vmgracia:

yes, it's true but many users need/want to use a local mail client instead to webmail and there is the need to find this kind of utility.

I don't understand your question - subject is "httpmail server", but you turn down answers that let users access your mail server via smtp/pop3/imap over the internet, and it has to be local on the client and go over port 80? What on earth is it that you need?

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Kind regards / Peter

 Hi

for diferent security reasons many of our external email users have blocked the use of pop3/imap4/smtp ports by a proxy servers but normally they have access to internet through the port 80 (http)

since mercury haven't implemented any httpmail protocol  I'm looking for an utility that makes a tunneling for the ports pop3/smtp/imap all together through port 80 because for several users the mailserver services like squirrelmail is not good enough and they need to still use their local email clients.

as an example, MS outlook and MS exchange have this kind of communication service through port 80.

 

regards

 

Ahh, that's another issue, you need to look at proxy tunneling software, both server and client side. Start by looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server

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Kind regards / Peter