** Alex Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-25 16:59]: > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 17:28 +0200, Giacomo Poderi wrote: > > MJ Ray ha scritto: > > > I think that's more thoughtlessness and ignorance of the free software > > > alternatives, like when people use gmail instead of a free software > > > webmail. > > > > [OT]Could you please mention some of these free software webmail, didn't > > find many > > <marketing> www.bongo-project.org is already ok-ish and will be amazing > eventually ;) </marketing> > > Seriously, there are a number of different projects which work in > different situations: SquirrelMail (a bit ugly, though) and Horde/et al. > (which you can run on top of Kolab) are the best known ones. ** end quote [Alex Hudson]
All good projects, but none are alternatives to Gmail since they are purely the application and not a service. Things like Operamail, Hotmail, etc. are comparable to Gmail, but clearly no better on an ethical stand point. As an aside, if you are looking for a webmail application the best one I've come across so far by an order of magnitude is Roundcube[1]. Horde doesn't come near it in terms of ease of installation (in fact the hassle of putting the Horde framework on to then get IMP has put me off entirely(*) - perhaps if I wanted the full suite of applications, but last time I looked they were far from ready), and it makes the SquirrelMail look like something out of the ark. It is still in beta, but at rc1 at the moment. [1] http://www.roundcube.net/ (#) (*) to be fair you can get it through apt-get in Debian (although it has tended to be noteably out of date) and probably similar with other distros, but I prefer putting web applications on by hand downloaded from the developers website (#) sorry Alex, Bongo does look promising, but is a way off from prime time at the moment - keep it up though :) -- Paul Tansom | http://www.whaletales.co.uk/ ============================================ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
