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