DWR will formthe foundation of the server side of things as usual, and we??™ll also
use some client-side DOM scripting and CSS to make this application a little more ???pretty???
than it otherwise might be. In the end, we??™ll have a web application that you can run on a
server and that will give you remote access to your POP3 account from anywhere. Although it
will not be as full featured as Microsoft Outlook, it will be more than capable of performing
the basics.
Application Requirements and Goals
A while back, access to e-mail accounts was always through some bulky fat-client application.
AOL was and still is perhaps the most famous; you may recall others like CompuServe and
Delphi (true, these services have always been far more than just e-mail, however, we??™re discussing
e-mail after all, and that??™s one part of the services they provided, so allow me the
minor inaccuracy, won??™t you?). Later on, and still to this day, we have applications like
Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, Thunderbird, and Eudora, just to name a few.
More recently though, over the past three to four years perhaps, people have started to
realize that it would be nice to have e-mail available to them anywhere, not just on a PC or
laptop with the client installed.
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