Chapter 21. Using SqWebMail with Postfix

Installing Postfix is just half of the e-mail server battle. E-mail customers expect other mail services from mail servers. With the increasing popularity of Web-based e-mail services such as Yahoo Mail and Microsoft's Hotmail, a Web interface to users' mailboxes is almost a necessity.

If you decide to support Web-based mailbox access, you must install a separate package. At the time of this writing Postfix does not include software that allows users to access their mailboxes from the Web. One of the most popular Web-based MUA programs available for the Unix platform is the SqWebMail package. This chapter describes how to install SqWebMail on the Postfix server to allow users to read messages in their Maildir-formatted ...

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