How to implement a web interface for a mail server?

Question

linux

Good day to all. My next task is to write a web application that allows the user to log in with his username / password, reads the corresponding file from /var/spool/mail and displays its contents as a set of separate messages. I've never worked with websites and related technologies before, so I don't know where to start. Recommend some example or general principles by which this application can work.

Answer 1

See Squirrelmail . Sources are open, as an example, perhaps suitable

Answer 2

I put the roundcube , I'm happy as an elephant.
If the task is to write, then it’s kind of complicated for one person then))
I don’t understand why reinvent the wheel?

Answer 3

The task was actually much simpler, and it was also much easier to solve) I just stupidly displayed the contents of the var/mail/USER file, parsing it using a third-party php library. And for login and password authentication, I used LDAP.