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Sep 11.2003

I want to make it possible for my elderly mother to read and send web-based email. She has failing eyesight and at 83 years of age is not interested in all the bells and whistles present in most feature rich email clients.

I have tried NeoMail, Squirrelmail, and several others, but they all have too many buttons (and the buttons are too small to be useful)

All I want to do is read the mail file and display it one message at a time and give her a way to reply to messages.

Anyone got any ideas??

Thanks, Margaret

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@pyroSep 11.2003 — If you're talking making your own, it's going to be a bit of work. I've not personally tried playing around with any of this, as I've not had the need, but you are going to want to look into the [URL=http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.imap.php]imap[/URL] functions...
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@winwintooauthorSep 11.2003 — Thanks Pyro. I ended up using web2mail and tinyurl to create a short url for Mom to log on and read her mail through web2mail.

By getting rid of the frames on the default web2mail, I managed to wiggle my way directly in to the email list screen. From there she can click on a link to see if she has new mail and she will have to log in - couldn't find a way around that.

I think there's a market for web tools geared to elderly folks, anyone interested??

Margaret
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@pyroSep 11.2003 — Lol... I've been thinking about playing around with a web mail app, and if I make one, I'll be sure it's accessible... ?
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