Topic: Problems with Webmail program and ESmith 4.0

[Mike Stoddart]

I upgraded 3.1 to 4.0, and I'm now having a problem with a web based email program that I've been using with 3.1; Mailman.

When I try to login through the Mailman web interface, I get the error:

Log In Error: The server does not respond appropriately.

I thought I had to reconfigure Mailman for the new URL

http://www.e-mith.stodge.net/mailman/cgi-bin/login.pl

but that didnt' seem to fix anything. I have its configuration setup as:

pop3 server: pop3.stodge.net
smtp server:localhost

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

[Charlie Brady]

Mike Stoddart wrote:

> I upgraded 3.1 to 4.0, and I'm now having a problem with a web
> based email program that I've been using with 3.1; Mailman.
>
> When I try to login through the Mailman web interface, I get
> the error:
>
> Log In Error: The server does not respond appropriately.
...
> pop3 server: pop3.stodge.net
> smtp server:localhost
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

Try "localhost" or "pop3.e-smith.stodge.net" as the pop3 server.

Charlie

[Mike Stoddart]

Excellent - that fixed it. The E-Smith restore option worked as well - so thanks again!

[Christo Pretorius]

Hi there Mike,

Please tell me where one can download the Mailman program.

Thanks a lot.
Christo

[Mike Stoddart]

You can download it from

http://www.endymion.com/

Be careful with licensing though; it is only free for personaland non-profit use. Personally I'm looking to replace it with something else.

[Dan]

You might want to check out IMP.  I have RPMs of IMP and all other required programs available at http://users3.50megs.com/danb35.  You should probably consider this beta-level code, as I haven't been able to test it extensively, but it all seems to work fine with e-smith 4.0 final.

[Mike Stoddart]

Just a thought - if a webmail interface that uses MySQL is added to E-Smith, how would one go about backing up and restoring email data? Would the E-Smith manager have to be updated to allow administration of the database?

[Dan]

MySQL is used for storing user prefs and contacts.  The mail itself is stored in the same way as before--IMP leaves mail storage to the mail server.

[Mike Stoddart]

Ah - I was under the impression that emails were stored in the MySQL database.