Re: "Yahoo briefcase"-like app?

[Martin Ellis <m.a.ellis@ncl.ac.uk>]

On Monday 08 March 2004 23:52, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> Does anyone know of a web application that provides "Yahoo
> Briefcase"-like functionality for authenticated users?
> Basically, this is a general-purpose storage space to allow
> putting and getting files via a web frontend.
>
> The ability to use this from any computer with just a web
> browser (no requirements on scp/ftp clients, for example) is
> a must.  Imagine it must be usable from a cybercafe, for
> example, where software installation is impossible, ftp/scp
> is probably not available, but there is a web browser.
>
> Is anybody aware of any free software packages that provide
> something like this?  Failing that, any recommendations for
> packages that do something close to this, that I could hack
> in the particulars with minial effort?

I think openwebmail does this by giving users access to their home 
directory (in addition to the obvious mail thing).

A doddle to set up, but I've had problems with it sharing the same 
mail directory as KMail (though I've known this to work fine for 
other people).

Martin