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Oct, 2008
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April, 2008
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RESTful Web Services
Jan, 2008
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UMail

UMail allows you to create an anonymous email feedback form you can link to from a Web site.

UMail allows people to send you anonymous email messages from your Web page directly to your email inbox. You can provide the option for people to identify themselves. Direct the email to yourself, a colleague, or a group -- you specify the recipients.

For more details, visit the University of Washington's UMail Tool Page and UMail Help Center. Please be aware that your users cannot log in from these pages, we cannot provide technical support for your users, and some features may be different for your organization.

Dependencies

Solstice - Solstice is a Web application development framework for Perl. Based on the MVC programming paradigm, it provides a sensible layout for Web applications that helps you write applications faster and with fewer mistakes.
ThemePark - Themepark is where you can find themes or skins to change the look and feel of Solstice applications.

Installation

After following direction at Installing Solstice, you're ready to install UMail. As with Solstice, you have the option to install from a tar file, or from subversion.

Downloading Tar Files

cd solstice_apps

Download the current UMail tarball from http://solstice.eplt.washington.edu/download/UMail-current.tar.gz

tar -xvzf UMail-current.tar.gz

Using Subversion

cd solstice_apps
svn co https://solstice.eplt.washington.edu/svn/umail/trunk/ umail

Configuring UMail

cd umail
cp example_config.xml config.xml

In the <keys> section, the following can be changed:

  • umail_protocol: http or https, https recommended
  • server_base: the name of your server, used to build urls to umail forms
  • help_url: the base url for help documentation

Create the UMail database

mysql -u solstice -p

mysql> create database umail_v2;
mysql -u solstice -p umail_v2 < install/app.sql

Restart Apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Sources

Browse the sources online

SVN Checkouts

Please note that our SVN servers only accept SSL connections - don't forget that https://!

Tarballs