We're using Windows 2003 Server, IIS 6.0, PHP 5.0, and MySQL 4.1 on the server and Windows XP Pro on the client PCs. Managers want to develop a web-based email client for agents to use to email them directly to their MS Outlook inbox and to be able to send replies from it back to their web-based account. Emailing outside the intranet should be forbidden. I can make my own web-based client to achieve the above request but wanted to know if there's some free library or something which i can make slight modifications to, to achieve the above. Even if its a standard Windows application i'd consider it. Anything to save me from having to develop the email client from scratch.

Thanks for any pointers. Just in case I do have access to PHP and MySql.

    Why do they need a web-based e-mail client if they have access to MS Outlook?!?!

    And why aren't you using *nix for your servers?

      Go to sourceforge.net for the email app - bound to be dozens of them flaoting around.

      Logan, I guess cos they are using W2K3.

        Yes we have access to Outlook but management is paranoid with allowing regular agents using the application. Perhaps fear of them emailing outside the intranet or something. Anyway, they only want web-based. Thanks for the sourceforge pointer.

          Definitely look around sourceforge...if nothing there, you'll need to implement something yourself; since it's mimicking Exchange/Outlook, you'll need to read up on: A) user management and 😎 mailing from PHP.

            If you find something good can you post it here, as I've just about finished an internal email system for a master site hub that talks to mini sites and also links in with the error logger, and I bet there was something I could have just plugged in.

            Half the time modifying / understanding other people's code takes longer than writing it yourself, though.

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