Mail -> Web (not webmail)
Will Mc Donald
wmcdonald at ntlworld.com
Thu May 13 14:55:40 UTC 2004
From: "Jeff Hogg" <tastin at catchnet.net>
> Jeff wrote:
> >
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> >
> >
> > I suppose this is a bit of an odd question but I need to display the
> > contents of an mbox directly on a html page without authenticating.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sounds a bit weird but I got a plan ;)
> >
> >
> >
> > I need some sort of script to read the mbox file (or pop the mailserver
> > if nec.) and parse it into a nice looking webpage. A 'webmail' type view
> > would be ideal but I dont want people to have to authenticate.
> >
>
> This sounds like something you could do fairly easily with a little
> bit of php coding. It works well with presenting file input into html,
> and integrates neatly into Apache as well. I haven't done much with the
> mbox file itself, but it should just be a file read and output into html
> with a bit of specific parsing. Give php a look if you like. Easy to
> pick up if you've ever coded at all. :) If you feel the need, php can
> manage to connect to the pop3 port as well. Hope this helps.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mbox2html&hl=en&meta=
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mail2html&hl=en&safe=off
http://home.online.no/~pjacklam/perl/programs/mailutil/mail2html.pl
Looks like MHonArc has an mbox2html utility. And that last link appears to do the same.
ill.
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