Feriepost

About
Features
Requirements
Download
Install
FAQ
Copyright
Change log

About

Feriepost is a web-based POP3 mail client written in PHP. It allows you to send and read mail from your POP3 account in your browser. Feriepost is a Danish word that translates into something like "Vacation mail", and that is exactly what it is: A program that allows people who normally have no web-based access to their mail to read and send mail while they're on vacation (away from their personal computer). As such, it is a rather simple program, and it does not feature folders such as "Sent Mail", "Trash", etc. I have no plans to incorporate folders into Feriepost at this time. If you want a full-featured web-based mail client with folders and all sorts of things, there are plenty to choose from (i.e. SquirrelMail), but they're usually quite hard to install, and they often require a database (i.e. PostgreSQL or MySQL).

Feriepost includes icons taken from the GNOME project. I would like to thank the creators of the icons (I haven't been able to track down their names) for making such great graphics.



Features





Requirements





Install

  1. Load index.php into a plain text editor such as KEdit (Linux) or Notepad (Windows) and edit the variables at the top of the page. This a not really necessary to make Feriepost work, so if you want to get it up and running fast, just skip this part.
  2. Upload the entire feriepost directory (including all files and directories) to your server.
  3. Point your browser to example.com/feriepost/index.php, and you're off!




FAQ

In the Size column in the message list there's only hyphens ("-"), not the size of the message. Why is that?
Feriepost gets its information about the message size from the first line that appears when it issues the TOP command to the POP3 server. Some POP3 servers don't show the size of the message in that line, and so Feriepost just writes "-" to indicate that the size information is missing. In other words: It depends on the POP3 server if the size information is available or not.

Sometimes when I attach a file to my message, I get an error saying something like "max file size exceeded".
The size of the attached file cannot be more than 200 Kb. I made that limitation because I think that attaching big files to emails is a bad habit. It is a much better idea to upload the file to your website and make a link to the file in your email.



Copyright

The icons are copyrighted by their respective owners. Feriepost is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (also known as GPL).



Change log

0,11 >>> 0,12

0,10 >>> 0,11

0,09 >>> 0,10

0,08 >>> 0,09

0,07 >>> 0,08

0,06 >>> 0,07

0,05 >>> 0,06

0,04 >>> 0,05

0,03 >>> 0,04

0,02 >>> 0,03

0,01 >>> 0,02