Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-10-05 Severity: wishlist WING is a web-based mail system written with mod_perl, originally by Malcolm Beattie. It accesses IMAP and NNTP servers. The code is GPLed. A blurb from the README is attached. I'm recommending "web-imap" as the package name because there's already a "wing" package, and "web-imap" is what they're using at Sourceforge.
The package recently moved to Sourceforge, it's at <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/web-imap/>. There's not much there apart from the source itself. The previous home is at <URL:http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mbeattie/wing/>, there's an older version there. If I can get to it I'll try to package it myself, but if somebody else wants to have a try I encourage it. I haven't started on the job. Blurb: WING is an Open Source Apache/mod_perl based system which allows users to access email held on an IMAP server via any web browser. WING provides a gateway so that users can access email held on an IMAP server via any web browser. See http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mbeattie/wing/ Some features of WING are: * The browser does not need to support Java, JavaScript or frames but table and cookie support are preferable. * Users can create a hierarchy of multiple mailboxes and browse and move messages between them. * Messages with MIME attachments can be displayed nicely. * Per user defaults (such as screen size and mail signature) can be set and saved between sessions. * Files local to the client browser can be included in composed messages or MIME attached to them. * Arbitrary headers can be added to composed messages except that the "From:" header cannot be changed or forged for outgoing messages from WING. * WING is scalable up to thousands and tens of thousands of users. * Users can import address books by uploading them via their browser (only Pine format address books supported in this version). * Users can create their own links (bookmarks), presented in a hierarchical list which can be folded/unfolded. * Users can login using a "portal" view which provides a frame down the left hand side of the browser containing site-configurable links along with their personal links. This is the only part of WING which requires frame support from the browser. When integrated with a mail cluster similar to the one we have here at Oxford University, WING also has these features: * Users can manage their account via the WING interface. This includes changing passwords, querying disk usage of mailboxes and disk quota an setting mail forwarding and "vacation" messages. * Users can create address books which can be browsed, searched and shared in an ACL controlled manner with chosen lists of other users and groups. * WING server nodes can be added or removed transparently and can be taken down for upgrades without affecting user service. * There are a few web-based admin tools for querying the status of the WING cluster and its users. -- Roderick Schertler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
