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  • How can I put a hastymail login on an existing web page?

    Here is the needed HTML to create the login form:
    <form method="post" action="mailbox.php">
    Name: <input type="text" name="user">
    Password: <input type="password" name="pass">
    <input type="submit" name="login" value="Login">
</form>
    The action value in the form tag needs to be changed to a relative path to hastymail/html/mailbox.php. So if hastymail is located at http://www.somesite.com/webmail/ and you are creating a login box from a page located at http://www.somesite.com/main.html then the action attribute would be action="webmail/html/mailbox.php"


  • I just installed/upgraded Hastymail and I can't login, What can I do?

    The first thing to check is that you have correctly setup the encryption key. Hastymail will not allow you to login without finishing this step of the install process. See the last part of the INSTALL files for details. Next take a look at your IMAP server logs to see if Hastymail is establishing communications with the IMAP server. To help troubleshoot login problems try enabling the login_debug option in the hastymail.conf file. If none of these ideas help solve your login issue send us an email at hastymail-devel@lists.sourceforge.net and we will try to work through the problem.


  • I'm having a problem, how do I get help?

    Send a summary of your software (with versions) for your web server software, operating system, PHP version, web browser and IMAP server to Hastymail-devel@lists.sourceforge.net . Include a summary of your problem and we will reply to you ASAP. You do not need to be subscribed to the list to post a message.

    We also have an IRC channel at irc.freenode.net called #hastymail. We try to be in that channel as often as possible to answer any questions that we can.


  • I can login fine but when I send mail I get logged out. What gives?

    Change the value of file_uploads in your php.ini file to On, then restart apache.


  • What web browsers will Hastymail work with?

    One of our design goals is to minimize the requirements of the web browser so we can support many different platforms. Hastymail does not use frames, Javascript, cookies, or lots of images. Most testing is done with Mozilla based browsers, Internet Explorer, several text based browsers and a handful of other available browsers like Konqueror and Dillo. Hastymail has a "simple mode" which cuts the page size and complexity down to a bare minimum for text based or small screen browsers like Blazer on Palm OS



  • Sometimes after sending a message Internet Explorer does not reload. How can I correct this?

    Users have had this problem which stems from some "issues" with IE and SSl. You can correct it by adding this to your apache config:

    BrowserMatch ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown

    Don't forget to restart Apache!


  • What can I do to improve Hastymail performance?

    One of the best things you can do to make Hastymail run at top speed is to use an IMAP server that supports the SORT extension. This extension allows message sorting to be done at the IMAP server instead of in the PHP script, making large folders MUCH faster. Sorting folders by Arrival time is the fastest sort on all the servers I have tested. Many current IMAP server support the SORT extension. Check the documentation for yours to see if it contains this ability.


  • What software will Hastymail work with?

    We try to code Hastymail to be as cross-platform as we can so that it will run on as many sites as possible. Unfortunately we can only test on what we have so here is rundown of software that we KNOW Hastymail will work with:

    Web servers: Apache1.3.x, Apache2. Thats all I have to test with
    PHP versions: PHP4.1 or later, including the latest beta versions of PHP5
    IMAP servers: UW, Cyrus, Courier, eXtemail, EIMS, Communigate, Binc-imap, Dovecot, Mercury32, MS Exchange
    (Any RFC compliant IMAP server should work)
    Operating Systems: I have tested Hastymail on Redhat, Debian, and Gentoo GNU/Linux and have had reports of successful installs on Windows, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.



  • Why write another IMAP web client in PHP? There are many to choose from already!

    Hastymail aims to be a FAST web based IMAP client that has lots of options without becoming a bloated groupware app. We have many of the same features and functionality found in the bigger webmail applications, like Squirrelmail or IMP, however we have 1/3 or less the code base. Simple no-nonsense E-mail is our goal. And because Hastymail is quite speedy it does a great job handling large amounts of mail with little server resources.