On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:22:50PM -0500, Michael Kolos wrote: > Unless you really need the online storage of imap, why not try a package > such as nocc (nocc.sourceforge.net) which can allow users to access their > messages via the POP protocol that Qpopper already supports. > > It's open source in PHP3, so it may be a good start - if you add on the use > of a database mechanism for users to create folders and store messages and > adressbooks, etc. then you may find a solution that can easily run on > another machine, and save the problem > > I know that you're trying to fix a problem, but avoiding it seems like it > can also be a good possibility. > Nocc already supports many languages, is themable, and the new version > (which I haven't tried yet) is said to include some user customizing > features as well. > Might be worth a look - save you some work and time.
Good suggestion, wish we'd heard of this several months ago! We could at least have stacked it up against the IMAP-based webmail packages we tried out to see how it compared. For the curious, we did some basic in-house testing and evaluation of 4 different packages, and ended up picking "Silkymail" (a heavily modified IMP) as the best, with Squirrelmail very close behind and better in some ways. The fairly popular IMP and TWIG did very poorly when we asked people to rate them on usability and "friendliness" for doing a few basic email tasks. So at this point we are fairly committed to doing one of those two top-rated packages; one month would not be a lot of time to back out of it and evaluate a whole separate package. But I do appreciate the suggestion; this might be an excellent suggestion for others who want to avoid this problem. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWJD? "JWRTFM!" - Scott Dorsey (kludge) "JWG" - Eddie Aikau
