{"id":113,"date":"2008-06-18T23:59:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T22:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=113"},"modified":"2008-06-18T23:59:13","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T22:59:13","slug":"webmail-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Webmail has arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being odd, I run my own mail server. This is a legacy of me having poor service from online mail providers, being a bit paranoid and wanting to reuse old hardware. I run the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmail.com\/\">Mecury<\/a> mail server and use Vista&#8217;s Windows Mail client to read using PoP3.<\/p>\n<p>All this talk about clouds however has got me thinking. I really should consider beefing up the server and switching to IMAP4. That way I can read my mail anywhere, on any device with a suitable client. Ideally, to even the experience out, I need a webmail client to wrap around IMAP4 and make it truly universal.<\/p>\n<p>After not much poking around, I&#8217;ve come across RoundCube. It is a simple, elegant but more than adequate mail client and only took about an hour to get working. As I run Apache, MySQL and PHP already it was a breeze. Mercury is very standards-compliant so it never grumbles when other software talks to it properly.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone wanting to do a similar thing, I recommend getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apachefriends.org\/en\/index.html\">XAMPP<\/a> and following the simple steps <a href=\"http:\/\/paulstamatiou.com\/2005\/10\/29\/how-to-setup-roundcube-webmail-on-your-server\">here<\/a> on getting it working. If there is enough (any) interest, I may put a page together showing how easy it all is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being odd, I run my own mail server. This is a legacy of me having poor service from online mail &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=113\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,44,43,46],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}