On 27-Oct-98 Paul Mansfield wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>> [we really need a new eximon - that popup menu is too hard to hit the
>> wrong op on - but I am not an X programmer]
>
> I've been musing about this and wondered if anyone has thought about writing
> a
> simple web interface to allow you to see the exim mail queue etc... access
> would be controlled by IP and password.
<SNIP>
I've been playing with this for a while. I haven't got very far yet (start of
term network glitch blues :->) but hope to have something constructive soon.
I actually started out trying to write a web-ified front end for reading mail
in a previous job, but gave up when we found a commercial solution.
My thoughts on Exim were that while Eximon/shell control is great, it would be
*useful* (not essential) to be able to connect via a WWW browser and exert some
(not total) control over Exim from very remote locations. The advantage being
that you would still be able to firewall rsh/rlogin/telnet/X sessions but
simply use ACLs on a web server, as well as built-in checking in the scripts.
Anyone else with any thoughts on this, please let me know and I'll attempt to
knock together an overview/wish list
Graeme
(gulping heavily... just realising what he's undertaken!)
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Graeme Fowler
Network Officer, Infrastructure & Networks Group
Loughborough University Computing Services
+44 1509 228426
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