Berklix - Webmail Service

http://webmail.berklix.net
http://berklix.com/~jhs/berklix/webmail/

SERVER FOR NORMAL USERS

Correct Email Address To Tell Humans Correspondents & Mail Lists

• Tell Humans: your_login_name. webmail@webmail. berklix. net
• For Mail List Subscriptions: your_login_name. webmail@tower. berklix. net
• Do not tell people eg: your_login_name. webmail @berklix. net :
  Berklix domains have multiple server hosts but only one provides webmail service, so you need 'webmail' between the '@' & '.' in '@webmail. berklix .'
• Do not tell people @user. berklix. ... : webmail server may not remain on same host with normal user login accounts.
• Do not quote @webmail.berklix.com or @webmail. berklix.org or @webmail. berklix.eu. They might or not work. The correct domain for the service is berklix.net
• Technical:
  @'tower'. berklix, net is a temporary name & subject to change without notice.
  It's a physical name (DNS A record) to hardware, try to avoid using it.
  Best use re-directable host alias name (DNS CNAME) : @webmail.berklix.net

Introduction

• Not for public. (we do not offer free or paid accounts to the public, our accounts are just for some business colleagues & technology associates, & club associates.)
• Handy for travelling, accessing mail via net cafe or colleague's web browser etc.
• Handy for a few regular Berklix club organisers who have crippled mailers that can't avoid sending MIME + HTML enclosures. Who want to announce events to Majordomo controlled lists that reject MIME + HTML enclosures.
• 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:
  • tower.
  • slim.
  • flat. Tmp. out of service
  • BSn (For comparison).