Mail -> Web (not webmail)

[Will Mc Donald]

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.