I had been using Squirrelmail for about two years and I decided I wanted a little more integration with a calendar and addressbook and a "prettier" or slightly more intuitive interface for my not-so-tecchie wife. And from a security standpoint, I require the wonderful ability of Squirrelmail (can't remember if it's a plugin) to ignore downloading external images, whose URLs can be encoded for spam lists. Well so far, I haven't found it.
I've tried Horde IMP, eGroupware, MoreGroupware, and a couple other PHP-based ones and I prefer the speed and relative safety of Squirrelmail. After the rather heavy emerge of Horde and a config I couldn't find a way to integrate the addressbook with it's email. That would seem to be pretty important, so I'm thinking it's something I'm missing, but if something that necessary/basic is that difficult, it's a red flag to me. eGroupware's nice enough, but I don't like how it pulls external links in via e-mail. It's FeLaMiMail doesn't allow that, but that's also lacking some basic functionality (e.g. ability to move a message to another folder while viewing the message). And FeLaMiMail doesn't play nice with eG's built-in mail, at least with UW's IMAP and mbox (I'll stand by while I'm ripped on for that decision ;). Also, eG apparently requires "mbstring.func_overload = 7" in the php.ini, which breaks other PHP-based products I have, like Drupal. I installed MoreGroupware, but for the life of me can't recall even what it looks like. I seem to remember some addressbook integration issues or something, but don't quote me on that. I'm guessing I wasn't impressed... I'm probably going back to Squirrelmail if I can get it to talk with PostgreSQL properly (easier and more flexible setup, backup, and recovery than MySQL). In the meantime, I'd like to find another web-mail alternative, preferrably in PHP so I can fix/improve some minor things myself and because it's much "lighter" than Java (still haven't found any Java-based program worth the hassle other than maybe Azureus). I would like to try even something heavy like SuSE/Novell's OpenXchange, but am a little hesitant to try Tomcat on my li'l home server with only 384MB of RAM... If you find something "better" than Squirrelmail, let us know! Rich -----Original Message----- From: xyon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 6:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] webmail software I agree (about "better"), I should've been a bit more descriptive. The only reason I haven't checked out horde-imp is there are so many dependencies for it. Is it worth loading all that PEAR stuff? Thanks for the suggestion! -- [email protected] mailing list
