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Berklix - Webmail Service
Email Address To Quote Senders
- Use: [your_login_name].webmail@webmail.
berklix.com
- Not: @flat.berklix : A physical (A) name to hardware, not
re-directable on service reconfiguration or host failure, so
use a re-directable CNAME instead, eg webmail.berklix.
- Not: berklix.net : .net is destined for dynamic
allocation, not fixed servers.
- Not @user.berklix : webmail server may not remain on same
host with normal login accounts.
- Not @berklix : Berklix domains have multiple server hosts
but only one provides webmail service.
Introduction
- Not for public. (ie we do not offer free accounts to the
general public, our accounts are for business associates
& colleagues).
- Handy for travelling, accessing mail via net cafe or
colleague's web browser etc.
- Software from OpenWebMail.Org running on FreeBSD using
/usr/ports/mail/openwebmail.
Warnings
- Your password could be stolen by `man in the middle'
packet sniffers on the Internet, as it uses http, not https,
so don't use a valuable password.
- Your mail content could be similarly `sniffed' (but as
most people send mail unencrypted, it would be even easier
tapped other ways).
- NO guarantees, subject to change & breakage etc (test
service).
- No mail forwarding is set by default, you can probably
set that later I assume.
-
Ssh : Secure Shell I haven't got this working yet (though
I've added directives to httpd.conf).
- Ssh may not work if you use a Microsoft crippled
browser that for security reasons has been limited to not
allow extra windows to open. (As seen at a free service
adjacent a wall at Systems 2006.)
- Need to turn on Java in browser.
- The black box reports the Java applet is 2280 days
old & to go to http://www.mindbright.se/mindterm/
which redirects to
http://www.appgate.com/products/80_MindTerm/ which has a
client that implements the SSH1 and SSH2 protocols
written in pure Java "free for personal use". That's not
something I'll install on my FreeBSD client workstations
as I have real C, really free. Might be of use on MS
clients though.
- Not for normal users, Only for testers: flat,
tower, slim,
BSn (for
comparison)
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