| From: | Aaron Ruscetta |
| Date: | 10 Aug 2000 at 13:12:10 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: amiga support maillist Web enabled ? |
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Michiel Erasmus wrote:
> A few weeks ago someone posted to the support maillist to ask if
> there is a way to read the messages via the web. Apparently not.
And this is a problem? There's not a mail reader application readily
available and/or included with every server system and network
connection software package available for every platform in the world?
Sorry for the incredulity, but this concern seems totally irrelevent,
though someone please enlighten me if I'm missing something.
If "web" access to a completely functional, efficient, public standard
and readily accessable email list is a necessary or desirable effort,
then I would be happy to look into writing (or most likely modifying
an existing) PERL script to automate the task; a relative no brainer,
to be sure, especially for a read only server side app that posts to
an apropriate link page.
>
> I thought it would be nice if people could at least read the postings on
> the maillist, but not (necceseraly) post via the web. If there is no such
> interface, and ATM it can't be done then I have a suggestion on how to get
> the email list on the web. As I am a 100% Micro$oft developer I only know
> their products and that is what I will purpose to use.
>
> Here at work (and all over the planet..) Outlook98 is the standard office
> eMail program, Outlook saves all mails in one big file.
> The basic idea is to have an Active Server Page display a eMail from a
> database. Initially you should use M$-Access2000 to import the Outlook
> eMails file into Acess2k, then create a ASPs to handle the web GUI. Once
> the eMail is in Access2k for better performance transfer the imported data
> over to an Oracle database, or any other (freeware?) Db which talks ODBC.
> Then you have ofcourse the users access the support maillist via the ASP web
> interface.
>
> Minimum hardware/software needed
> * a peecee Pentium120 or so running Win95 with 64Mb ram (maybe less?)
> * Full Personal web server installed
> * internet connection
> * M$-Outlook2000 (maybe outlook97??)
> * M$-Access2000 (becos 97 can't import .pst files), Oracle8 personal may
> also work. (or Oracle for Linux??)
> * or, any other database which is accesable from a windoze machine via
> ODBC.
>
> Recommended hardware/software (overkill just for a maillist)
> * Quad Pentium and loadsa RAM..
> * WindoseNT 4.0 Server/Win2k Server with Servicepack 6..
> * Internet Information Server 4.0+
> * Oracle8 Server
> * or, any other database which is accesable from a windoze machine via
> ODBC.
>
> I don't know how Oracle8 personal will a big load if you have tasks
> connecting/disconnecting. If the same can be done using Linux, then I can't
> at this stage help. I suppose amiga is using some windoze machines, so you
> can do the above.
>
>
> I am glad to help, and if I have the free time to do so.
>
>
> met vriendelijke groet,
> Michiel Erasmus
>
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