Wednesday, January 26, 2011

[Tech] Webmail client via Asp.Net or PHP

Yesterday I had to install a webmail client on my web/mail server. In the past I used Apache for my webserver and then I used Squirrelmail. But since I am hosting some Silverlight applications I switched to IIS.

It is still possible to run PHP based webmail, but according my taste this took too much configuration. So I looked around for a (free) Asp.Net based solution and then I ran into Webmail Pro from Afterlogic. And it works very well !

Check it out at: http://www.afterlogic.com/webmail-client

When configuring the system with MySQL I ran into a problem when creating a database. I got the following error:

Connect unsuccessful!: Internal Server Error. Please, contact your system administrator in order to report the problem.

It seems that the odbc connector from MySQL needs to be installed, so make sure that you also install:
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/3.51.html

PS: I am using hMailServer for handling my mail. This is also a no-nonsense tool which works very well. Check it out at: http://www.hmailserver.com/

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