About:
Katrina (previously known as Instant Web Mail) is a Web-based POP email client. It is easy to install, but there are no Sent mail or Trash folders and no address book. It runs completely out of the box with full functionality and can easily be customized.

Author:
Alex McMillen [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.56/10.00 (20 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.tosn.org/projects.php

Trove categories: [change]

[Intended Audience]		System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Programming Language]		PHP
[Topic]		Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA), Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: POP3, Internet :: WWW/HTTP, Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	0.61	08-Apr-2002	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] Working on new version
by Mike Kuenzi - Sep 9th 2005 16:32:33

I'm going to be checking over the code and making everything work again as some of you have complained, PHP has proved IWM not to work anymore...

I will be working on this as fast as possible, and giving it a new default look for the first time in years.

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[»] Error sending to QMAIL servers
by koffie - Jun 22nd 2003 07:49:45

Hi,

I've found this program it it works fine for me, it even works on my NetWare box connecting to a GroupWise server.

However, when I send a email to some specific recepients I get an error on my mail server :

" Repsonse : 451 - See http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html "

When i goto the URL , I see the recieving server is blocking the mail due to no proper building the message.

Since I'me able to send to these servers with the client of my Server, it must be gone wrong in the Instant Wembail program.

Anyone familliar with theses errors, and know how the fix it ?

Thanx

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[»] What happed to project and it's maintainer?
by Craig - Sep 24th 2002 04:24:47

Where did the new maintainer of the Instant Web Mail project go..? The project looked promising at first, but since being handed off to the new maintainer, contributions/assistance on several small bugs and the project in general, have stopped all-together.. Oh well...

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[»] Re: What happed to project and it's maintainer?
by Jonas Koch Bentzen - Oct 26th 2002 18:52:33


> Where did the new maintainer of the
> Instant Web Mail project go..? The
> project looked promising at first, but
> since being handed off to the new
> maintainer, contributions/assistance on
> several small bugs and the project in
> general, have stopped all-together.. Oh
> well...
I'm the old maintainer who made Instant Web Mail. The guy to whom I handed over the project seemed eager at first to work on the project - and now, a few months later, he seems to have stopped all work on the project, and he can't be reached via his two email addresses.

I can't do anything about the Instant Web Mail site or code since I can't get in touch with the new maintainer. However, if someone is interested in working on the code, he/she could certainly download the code, improve it, and then release it under a different name (while still keeping the original copyright notices intact).

- Jonas Koch Bentzen

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[»] Re: What happed to project and it's maintainer?
by Alex McMillen - Feb 2nd 2003 12:39:30

Just so everyone knows, Jonas has given the Sliqua Design Group the moderationship for Instant Web Mail, so you can find the new project webpage, along with a demo, and some other cool things at http://www.sliqua.com/projects/instantwebmail

--
Alex McMillen President Sliqua Design Group The Only Teen Open Source Development Network http://www.sliqua.com

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[»] Problem with sending attachments
by erythros - Jun 4th 2002 12:44:42

Hey,
I've got a problem with sending attachments. I can browse for them and select them and send them but when the addresse recieves it it's only a few bites of data. Do I have a configuration conflict in my PHP? I'm using Apache 1.3.24 with PHP 4.2.0.

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[»] Error running under Windows 2000 Server
by DjIcemanDk - May 21st 2002 11:46:22

Hey!

I'm using MS Windows 2000 Server, but i get this error:

open(/tmp\sess_64682631abd9cbc59264bad2916eead8, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2)

Warning: open(/tmp\sess_64682631abd9cbc59264bad2916eead8, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0

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Can anyone help me? I tried some stuff but no luck! -(

Regards Ebbe Hjorth, Denmark

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[»] Re: Error running under Windows 2000 Server
by Jonas Koch Bentzen - May 26th 2002 05:07:15


> I'm using MS Windows 2000 Server, but
> i get this error:
>
>
> open(/tmp\sess_64682631abd9cbc59264bad2916eead8,
> O_RDWR) failed: No such file or
> directory (2)
>
> Warning:
> open(/tmp\sess_64682631abd9cbc59264bad2916eead8,
> O_RDWR) failed: No such file or
> directory (2) in Unknown on line 0
>
> Warning: Failed to write session data
> (files). Please verify that the current
> setting of session.save_path is correct
> (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0 Ændr session.save_path til en mappe, der findes på
din server og er skrivbar af PHP.

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[»] ideal program to have *own* webmail
by Marcos - May 13th 2002 02:57:00

excelent!!!.... perhaps not for commercial webhosting COs... but very, very usefull if your webhosting Co. (or your ISP) does not offer webmail, or if you need to access your POP while away from "home base"!!!!...

As long as your website is php enabled (check the version!), you're set!!!!...

I wish the webmail we need to offer our clients would be so easy to set up ;) (took me less than 5 minutes to do it!!!)

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[»] Problems sending using Instant Web Mail
by Nod - Apr 1st 2002 16:19:25

Just installed Instant Web Mail on my site and changed the settings etc and it was going great - everything I need!

However, when I go to send an email I get the message:

"Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wordwrap() in /home/newcastlea/public_html/cgi-bin/webmail/write.php on line 28"

Can you give me any advice please?

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[»] Re: Problems sending using Instant Web Mail
by Jonas Koch Bentzen - Apr 1st 2002 16:45:23


> Fatal error: Call to undefined
> function: wordwrap()
>
> Can you give me any advice please? Yes - read the readme file.

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[»] Instant Web Mail Problem
by [Shade] - Mar 20th 2002 04:14:09

There is some problem with "Instant Web Mail".

If U try use this program on server where disable upload_file, U cant send any mail. BUT U can't see error message becouse POST metod didn't send data in PHP script.

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[»] Re: Instant Web Mail Problem
by Jonas Koch Bentzen - Mar 20th 2002 04:51:22


> If U try use this program on server
> where disable upload_file, U cant send
> any mail. BUT U can't see error message
> becouse POST metod didn't send data in
> PHP script.
Alright, I'll see if I can improve the error handling in
that situation.



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[»] New Release .56
by Byron - Jan 23rd 2002 09:10:50

Hey,
another great release. I only have troubles with the settings.php. When I add an array of servers, or the default POP port using settings.php, I get an error message about foreach() and it appears that settingsSaved.php is saves with only A as the array in the three main fields - servers, port and default username.

I work arround the problem by editing settingsSaved.php manually which is not an inconvenience at all. Any ideas on what may be causing the trouble on my end?

Cheers (and thank you for Instant Web Mail);

Byron

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[»] Re: New Release .56
by Jonas Koch Bentzen - Jan 23rd 2002 09:59:51


> Hey,
> another great release. I only have
> troubles with the settings.php. When I
> add an array of servers, or the default
> POP port using settings.php, I get an
> error message about foreach() and it
> appears that settingsSaved.php is saves
> with only A as the array in the three
> main fields
What error message do you get? And what does
settingsSaved.php look like after you've modified it
in settings.php?




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[»] Re: New Release .56
by Byron - Jan 23rd 2002 11:37:19

The exact error message I get is:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/www/pezheadnetworks/instantWebMail/settings.php on line 47 The settings have been saved.

and the resulting settingsSaved.php file is -

$language = "English";
$adminUsername = "username"; //edited for public display
$adminPassword = "password"; //edited for public display :-)
$preset["host"] = array(A);
$preset["port"] = array(A);
$preset["username"] = array(A);
$colsOrRows = "cols";
$frameSizeHeaderList = "50";
$formatText = true;
$theme = "Dark";
$title = "Instant Web Mail";
$footer = "";
$logInHeader = "




"; $logInFooter = "";


It will place the A in array for host, port and username despite the fact that I did not modify the username field.
Cheers, and Thanks ! B

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[»] Re: New Release .56
by Jonas Koch Bentzen - Jan 23rd 2002 18:55:45


> It will place the A in array for host,
> port and username despite the fact that
> I did not modify the username field.
Hmm... Sounds weird. I'll take a look at it once I
get the time.


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[»] Re: New Release .56
by Jonas Koch Bentzen - Jan 27th 2002 18:11:15


> The exact error message I get is:
> Warning: Invalid argument supplied for
> foreach() in
> /home/www/pezheadnetworks/instantWebMail/settings.php
> on line 47
> The settings have been saved.
The problem has been fixed. Version 0.57 is now
available for download.


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[»] Messagebody not showing right when sending mail.
by J. Meijer - Oct 23rd 2001 04:28:30

Hello,

A very good webmailclient! I've found a small bug; when I send a message using the webmail version 0.53 and type a header like "Hello," and the body of the e-mail and the end like "Greets, <new line> my name" it puts the txt behind eachother disregarding the new (empty) lines I made to make it a nice readable layout like a letter. It puts all txt on 1 line without new lines.

I'm using this webmail for a school and a bug like this is a bit irritating for the users. Therefor I'd really like it when the creators of this webmail could make a bugfix for it.

Thanks in advance,

Johan Meijer

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[»] Re: Messagebody not showing right when sending mail.
by Jonas Koch Bentzen - Oct 23rd 2001 04:42:39


> It puts all txt on
> 1 line without new lines.
It sounds like your browser strips all newlines from
the data it posts to the scripts. Try using a number
of other browsers and see if it works. If it doesn't,
just write me back.



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[»] Re: Messagebody not showing right when sending mail.
by J. Meijer - Oct 23rd 2001 05:37:06

Thanks for your fast reply! I've tried IE6 and Opera 5.12 and got the problem with both browsers. When I read the e-mail in the webmail it looks ok, reading it in Outlook it's one messy e-mail. When I forward it using the webmail the original e-mailtxt gets messed up like at Outlook. So if you'd ask me it's not the browser which creates this error... Hope you can make a fix for it or something. Thanks, Johan Meijer

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[»] Re: Messagebody not showing right when sending mail.
by Jonas Koch Bentzen - Oct 23rd 2001 05:41:58


> Hope you can make a fix for it or
> something.
I don't have the time for it at the moment. Sorry.


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[»] Browser back button
by Yves Glodt - Sep 29th 2001 16:27:46

Hello,

first, I want to thank you for instantWebMail. Very nice!
But unfortunately I have one problem. (might be a
session management thing)
After logging out, when I press "Back" in the browser (Currently Mozilla 0.94 on win2k), I come back to my mails. Shouldn't the session management prevent that?

did you experience the same?

yves

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[»] Re: Browser back button
by Jonas Koch Bentzen - Sep 29th 2001 18:00:20


> After logging out, when I press
> "Back" in the browser
> (Currently Mozilla 0.94 on win2k), I
> come back to my mails.
The way I see it, it's not really a big problem. Let's
say that some guy want to reads your messages.
After you've logged out, he'll push the browser's
Back button, and then he'll see the header list.
Sure, he'll be able to read the subject of your
messages, but if he clicks on one of the subject
lines in order to view the message, he'll be
prompted to log in.


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[»] Re: Browser back button
by Yves Glodt - Sep 30th 2001 08:02:20


>
> % After logging out, when I press
> % "Back" in the browser
> % (Currently Mozilla 0.94 on win2k),
> I
> % come back to my mails.
>
>
> The way I see it, it's not really a
> big problem. Let's
> say that some guy want to reads your
> messages.
> After you've logged out, he'll push
> the browser's
> Back button, and then he'll see the
> header list.
> Sure, he'll be able to read the
> subject of your
> messages, but if he clicks on one of
> the subject
> lines in order to view the message,
> he'll be
> prompted to log in.
>
Hmm, I've tried it
Opera and Konqueror in linux behave like you describe it, but Mozilla and IE5.0 in Win98 don't.
Even after logging out, I was able to click on "new letter", and I got the new-letter-window.
Mozilla is asking if you want to resend POST-DATA. If I say "Cancel" it doesn't work, but by clicking "OK", I am able to send a mail.
IE5.0 doesn't complain, it simply opens the page and lets you go on

yg

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[»] Re: Browser back button
by Jonas Koch Bentzen - Sep 30th 2001 08:34:32


> Even after logging out, I was able to
> click on "new letter", and I
> got the new-letter-window.
> Mozilla is asking if you want to
> resend POST-DATA. If I say
> "Cancel" it doesn't work, but
> by clicking "OK", I am able to
> send a mail.
> IE5.0 doesn't complain, it simply
> opens the page and lets you go on
Okay, you've convinced me. I'll find some way to
fix the problem.



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[»] Seen mails
by Frapi - Sep 21st 2001 15:06:15

OK, no folder, all is kept in the pop server.

but when I'm not at work, I want to see my mails, verify if some are urgent, and keep the others for downloading by my Eudora client at work. So I can't delete them, but I don't want them to be shown each time I look at IntantWebMail.

=>
- another checkbox to flag mails as "already seen"
- a file 666 in the webserver to store the iudl of already seen messages.
- possibility to mask/unmask seen messages in the inbox of instantWebMail

I've started develop this today, please mail me to have more info and/or see the development website.

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[»] Re: Seen mails
by Jonas Koch Bentzen - Sep 21st 2001 17:21:16


> - another checkbox to flag mails as
> "already seen"
> - a file 666 in the webserver to store
> the iudl of already seen messages.
> - possibility to mask/unmask seen
> messages in the inbox of
> instantWebMail
>
> I've started develop this today,
> please mail me to have more info and/or
> see the development website.
I'm afraid that the changes you're suggesting will
cause the program to become... well, not as simple
and easy-to-install as it is now. For that reason I
don't think I will incorporate your code into Instant
Web Mail. Of course you could use your code on
your own website, and please feel free to release
your own modified version of Instant Web Mail with
the above changes (as long as you give the
program another name and keep my name in the
copyright messages, I'm happy : )).


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[»] broken crypt
by Frapi - Sep 21st 2001 14:56:16

in a php 4.0b4,
the crypt function didn't work well, and I had to comment the call to auth() function.
Even with the new password, it still doesn't work.

Is put a longer salt than just the single character "i", and it works.

Might be an idea to put a longer salt in the next release ?

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[»] Re: broken crypt
by Jonas Koch Bentzen - Sep 21st 2001 17:14:02


> Might be an idea to put a longer salt
> in the next release ?
Thanks very much for showing me the solution to
the crypt() problem.


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[»] wordwrap()
by expresivo - Sep 17th 2001 20:20:03

I have problems with instant Web Mail when I wish send an e-mail. When I click on send bottom, an error message displays; function wordwrap() is not found. You can help me???

Sorry, i don't speak English.

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[»] Re: wordwrap()
by Jonas Koch Bentzen - Sep 18th 2001 04:22:13


> When I click
> on send bottom, an error message
> displays; function wordwrap() is not
> found.

Forgive me for sounding arrogant, but did you even take the time to look at the "Requirements" section of the readme file? The current version of Instant Web Mail (and all previous versions, I might add) requires PHP 4.0.3, which is clearly stated in the readme file. You're probably using an earlier version of PHP which is why you get the error message.

I get tons of emails like the one above. People, please take a look at the readme file before you ask me.

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