I am anxious to try http://alphamail.uoosl.org/ which is in use for
10,000 users at a university (not with dbmail) - as an alternative to
squirrel. Main reason: it was designed to address the performance
flaws in imap webmail clients such as squirrel: "My Performance tests
on IMAP servers were my original motivation for this project."
The nice thing about IMAP webmail clients is - you can have as many as
you want. I've seen ISPs who offer the user the choice of IMP or
Squirrel. I expect to do the same for squirrel - alphamail.
Project Goals
1. It must not be abusive of the IMAP server. Webmail clients that
don't use some form of middleware beat the imap server to death on
every user mouse click. IMAP Proxies help, but they do not cache any
of the actual data, this is particularly harsh when there are many
users, since every mouse click can cause an entire re-read of the
mailbox. My Performance tests on IMAP servers were my original
motivation for this project.
IMAP servers such as Dovecot and Cyrus can help by being more
efficient, but porting from one mailbox format to another in a large
environment can be an immense undertaking. (There are scalability
issues with Cyrus itself, since many institutions want to use NFS
filers, and Cyrus does not support them.)
2. Reading, sending, and organizing messages must be usable on all
possible browsers, including those that are used by people with
disabilities. It should downgrade gracefully when a feature is not
supported. Currently, the only browser requirements are HTML 4
compliance and cookie support. All features that are enhanced with
JavaScript are available via more traditional server interaction when
JavaScript is not enabled. An AJAX-enabled mode is planned, but the
wide browser support was more important for initial implementation.
3. A good feature set for the majority of browsers. We are
modelling the advanced features after some of the best mail clients we
can find.
4. International language support. Currently, AlphaMail supports
composing messages via UTF-8, and should be able to read messages
encoded in almost all languages and charater sets. The interface
itself is not yet available in anything but English.
On 8/18/06, Matthew T. O'Connor <[email protected]> wrote:
Just curious to do an informal survey on the list.
What open source Web based IMAP clients are people using? I have been
using Squirrelmail for quite a while, but in my mind it looks a bit
dated. Roundcube looks nice, but I've never used it.
Comments? What else are people using?
Matt
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