On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 11:11 am, dax2 wrote:
> > I've just deployed sqwebmail for quite a few users and I'm
> > facing a revolt because when they go to delete their messages
> > the messages do not actually dissapear from the page. Our help
> > desk phone line has not stopped for days because of just this
> > simple little issue.

> 1) Users may enter another folder

Sure, I know this but 99% of our users do not expect that as the
default behaviour... "delete" ususally means "gone from page" in
their general understanding of things.

>    or you could write a patch to the webmail app.

Not an option when I have to support multiple servers using 2
different distros (gentoo and debian).

> 2) There are other webmail applications, squirrelmail acmemail etc
>    and many written in perl. Check out Neomail. Use Google.
>    Going through a web server without IMAP means that
>    the web server must cooperate with either POP3,IMAP or
>             user-mail-storage
>      or     mbox files, typically /var/spool/mail
>
>    ... which you probably know. Webmail accessing userfiles
> directly wouldn't be very wise. Check out Neomail though:

I was under the impression that sqwebmail accessed the messages
in Maildir format directly ?

Thanks for the suggestions. Evaluating various webmail clients
could take weeks or months. Perhaps a more precise question to
anyone out there, with a predominantly PHP based web system, is,
has anyone tried replacing some or all the the sqwebmail HTML
templates with PHP versions (perhaps by using "AddType 
application/x-httpd-php .html" for the directory where the 
sqwebmail templates reside, so the sqwebmail CGI still deals
with the expected .html named files) ?

Our non-deletion of "deleted" message problem has subsided after
putting out notices about what to expect. Another issue is that
our users are already logged in and I'd like to intergrate sqwebmail
more tightly with our PHP interface. Transferring the current
login details via ?username=x&password=y to sqwebmail actually 
works but the PHP session is completely lost when they return 
to the "normal" PHP interface. The only way I can see to get 
around this is to make the wrapper around the sqwebmail web
interface PHP powered as well.

Just wondering if anyone has already fully intergrated sqwebmail
into some PHP based portal ?

--markc


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