Hi! On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Mark Goodge <m...@good-stuff.co.uk> wrote: > On 09/02/2010 16:00, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: >>> >>> Possibly, although there are different reasons for detesting OE and >>> Outlook. >>> OE and Outlook are crap desktop clients; most experienced high-volume >>> mail >>> users prefer better clients such as Thunderbird. If your users also >>> detest >>> Thunderbird, then yes, Squirrelmail is probably right up their street. >>> But >>> if they like Thunderbird, then they'll probably find Squirrelmail rather >>> limited by comparison. >> >> mmmm... it depends, if you use squirrelmail, you will be able to read >> your mail using any phone using operamini, that's a neat feature. > > Yes, and that's an important consideration when choosing a webmail client. > It's very difficult to make a webmail cient work equally well as a mobile > client and as a replacement for a desktop client. > >>> 80 would be a very low figure for the type of use I'm thinking of. The >>> people I know who complain about Squirrelmail's limitations generally get >>> several hundred emails a day. >> >> Please, just tell me: what does the volume of mail has to do with the >> webmail client? I mean, I could get 1000 mails at once, and squirrel >> would just show me the "latest" when I refresh the page: no delays, no >> problems, also felamimail (egroupware), and IMP (horde).... so, what >> do you want a mail client to do with your 1000's mails? read them for >> you and parse them, so that you get the "most important first".... I >> mean, there is no web client that do that, and if you really need to >> do something like that, use dovecot and sieve!. Any "client-side" >> filtering for 1000's of mails a day, could be slow, unless it is a >> desktop client. > > The main issues with large volumes of mail are being able to visually scan > through it using a preview pane instead of having to step through each > message in turn, and being able to mass-move multiple emails by click-select > and drag-and-drop. These are things that are easy to implement on a desktop > client, but hard to do on a webmail client. Also, for list mail, threading > is an essential feature for many people (including myself), and a client > (either desktop or web) that doesn't support it is simply too non-functional > to be used except as a backup.
As for threading: it depends on the imap server: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/SquirrelMailFeatures <--- the question: Can I view my mail list in threaded view? , look at it. Ildefonso
