Hi
I have mostly some experince with squirellmail and quite like it.
The major thing I dislike about it is the use of frames.
Some comments below:
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 12:20:22PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Openwebmail - I think it's THE best solution. Some features that it has:
>
> * Full hebrew support (thanks Yehuda and others!) including hebrew menus,
> icons, right-to-left, etc
Basic Hebrew support (translated menus and such) is probably mostly a
matter of translating texts.
> * basic "file manager" (in case you want to deal with attachment)
What fiels/storage does it manage? Do you assume users have their own
home directories? Allocated space in the database?
> * Support for plugins - spamassasin, anti-virus, etc...
ditto squirrelmail
> * dead easy to use for end users (I tested it with my girl friend which
> doesn't like computers and refuse to learn - and she loved it)
Most webmails I know are quite simple and present a resonable interface.
> * Full support for language encoding (logical hebrew, visual hebrew, UTF, you
> name it)
What kind of support is that?
> * Very easy to install (takes about 5 minutes, readme is always available)
Squirrelmail now tends to be an RPM package that comes with the
distro...
> * HTML mail composing - for those who like to write those emails with huge
> fonts and ugly colors). Of-course text mail composing is also supported.
Should I consider this a non-feature? ;-)
> * Browser friendly - it detect which browser you use and disable/enable the
> feature automatically (so no HTML composing with LYNX ;)
MY idea of "browser-friendly" is to make features availble to as many
bowsers as possible.
> * Spell checker support - supports US/UK english (I assume you can add
> hspell, but I never tried it)
A standard SM plugin. Again: no hspell.
> * Stable - very stable, runs at my house for over 1.5 years without any
> problem.
> * Address book support, filters support etc - all inside, and easy to be
> configured...
>
> And these are only some of it's features. I recommend it a lot.
>
> Oh, and up till 3 months ago, it was running happily serving 24 people from a
> pentium 90 with 64MB RAM, so I think you can add "running find under low end
> hardware".
Indeed it shouldn't be a performance bottleneck. At least if it doesn't
handle the storage: the imap server is the one doing the hard work.
Anyway, one point that I did not yet see in this discussion is where the
mail storage is.
In hotmail and Yahoo you're used to see the storage availble basically
only through the web interface and ignore the storage issue.
One possibility for a webmail is to only serve as a pop3/imap client.
It can also fetch the mail and store it locally (on the webmail's
server). IMP allows you to choose between the two modes. Squirrelmail
defaults to storing the mail remotely, but IIRC it has its own
local messages storage ("mysql storage").
If you want to access the same mailbox from other clients, a separate
storage in the webmail is probably not such a great idea.
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