Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-05 Thread Nich Steicke
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 03 May 2006 12:13, Nich Steicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail': modern, i would advise RoundCube - though its main draw back is its reliance on Java (its written at least in part in AJAX) - i personly AJAX

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-03 Thread JimD
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: The output of ASP.Net is trash. Most notably it doesn't gracefully degrade as the browser loses features, and generates unnecessary round-trips to the server. That was true for *Microsoft's* ASP.Net 1.1. The output HTML for the MS supplied controls was

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-03 Thread JimD
Nick Rout wrote: you could take a look at roundcube.net Your the second person to mention roundcube. Has everyone heard of Roundcube but me? : ) It looks nice and I will go check it out. I am connecting to courier imap on the same box with some very large (read: owned by a lazy b'stard)

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 00:37 -0400, JimD wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: What other style is there besides procedural? A much better way IMO is to separate the presentation from the code like you can do with ASP.Net with Mono/MS. ASP.Net makes web app development *event* oriented.

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-03 Thread Nich Steicke
JimD wrote: The SquirrelMail source code is trash. I haven't gone through all of it, or even much of it to really know. Though the compose.php page was a real mess. All I wanted to do was line the form buttons up nicely : ) Jim i personly use both SquirrelMail and roundcube for my

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 03 May 2006 08:59:23 -0500 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know about event-driven programming (I wrote in VB for years before I achieved the enlightenment of Linux), but I didn't know that it was possible with PHP. I use event-driven techniques in Gambas and qt. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-03 Thread Martin Richardson
On 23:14 Tue 02 May , Jim wrote: Can anyone recommend a webmail client? I am looking for something more modern than SquuirrelMal. I have been using SquuirrelMal, however I find it the interface too old and outdated. I also looking into the code to see if I could freshen it up.

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-03 Thread Manuel McLure
Nick Rout wrote: I am running courier as well. I haven't tried dovecot. My largest folder has about 75 emails so I guess performance should be fine. I am the opposite and delete everything. It has come to bite me in the bum many times. I need to start saving emails. I *just* (as in an

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-03 Thread JimD
Michael Sullivan wrote: I know about event-driven programming (I wrote in VB for years before I achieved the enlightenment of Linux), but I didn't know that it was possible with PHP. I use event-driven techniques in Gambas and qt. I always thought squirrelmail code was like that for security

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-03 Thread JimD
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I never heard of it as event driven programming, but I think what it should refer to is the MVC pattern. The events for web applications are of such a homogenuous nature that it has no worth to think of it as event driven. One needs a good understanding of MVC and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-03 Thread JimD
Manuel McLure wrote: I *just* (as in an hour or so ago) upgraded from courier-imap to dovecot. On large folders (1000+ messages) dovecot is *much* faster. I'd say around 5x faster when bringing up the folder in Squirrelmail. Any major changes in setup? Any quirks with your fav. client? Jim

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-03 Thread JimD
Martin Richardson wrote: Hi Jim, I have not actually installed a web mail client, so I can't talk from experience, but I was considering doing so a while back. Have You had a look at horde or more specifically horde-imp? Looked good for me at the time. Good luck. No I have not.

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-03 Thread Manuel McLure
JimD wrote: Manuel McLure wrote: I *just* (as in an hour or so ago) upgraded from courier-imap to dovecot. On large folders (1000+ messages) dovecot is *much* faster. I'd say around 5x faster when bringing up the folder in Squirrelmail. Any major changes in setup? Any quirks with your

[gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-02 Thread Jim
Can anyone recommend a webmail client? I am looking for something more modern than SquuirrelMal. I have been using SquuirrelMal, however I find it the interface too old and outdated. I also looking into the code to see if I could freshen it up. From a quick look, the code is based on really

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 23:14 -0400, Jim wrote: Can anyone recommend a webmail client? I am looking for something more modern than SquuirrelMal. I have been using SquuirrelMal, however I find it the interface too old and outdated. I also looking into the code to see if I could freshen it

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-02 Thread JimD
Michael Sullivan wrote: What other style is there besides procedural? A much better way IMO is to separate the presentation from the code like you can do with ASP.Net with Mono/MS. ASP.Net makes web app development *event* oriented. You write event handlers to handle certain events like

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-02 Thread Nick Rout
you could take a look at roundcube.net There is an ebuild referred to in bugzilla (which actually points to an svn server somewhere else). I installed it a day or so ago. the postinstall instructions needed some tweaking (mainly quoting on the mysql commands) but sorry i didn't make notes. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 23:37, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail': Michael Sullivan wrote: What other style is there besides procedural? A much better way IMO is to separate the presentation from the code like you can do with ASP.Net with Mono/MS. ASP.Net makes

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-02 Thread kashani
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 23:14 -0400, Jim wrote: Can anyone recommend a webmail client? I am looking for something more modern than SquuirrelMal. I have been using SquuirrelMal, however I find it the interface too old and outdated. I also looking into the code to see