Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Dave Stav
Dear list members, We are looking for a webmail application that has good support in Hebrew messages (encoding and ltr/rtl). So far, it seems to me that roundcube-webmail is the best candidate, but also considering: Open WebMail IMP SquirrelMail roundcube Any suggestions? Thanks, Dave --

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Dave, Some features that would be nice to have are FCC for both incomming and outgoing messages, like al/pine has, and the ability to compose plain text messages without using HTML. Regards, - yba On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Dave Stav wrote: Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:08:30 +0300 From: Dave

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Danny Lieberman
Google Applications. It's free and it's great Don't even think about hosting your own Webmail - On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Dave Stav d...@tkos.co.il wrote: Dear list members, We are looking for a webmail application that has good support in Hebrew messages (encoding and ltr/rtl).

Re: Looking for Jerusalem DID

2009-08-18 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/8/18 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com: Little note , The extra charge  (from bezeq) in 02 is for some special numbers (the one that are in PalTel region and Jawal). So you think you call a 02 (Isrealy phone number in Jerusalem area ) but actually call Rammala. That makes sense, as

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Danny Lieberman wrote: Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:09:21 +0300 From: Danny Lieberman dan...@software.co.il To: Dave Stav d...@tkos.co.il Cc: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support Google Applications. It's free and

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Danny Lieberman
Yonatan what you're saying is that you are capable of managing security better than google. that is highly arguable. Our own experience is that we ran qmail/squirrel qmail/clamAV/Spam Assassin for 5 years thru 2007. In 2007 - the amount of administration and image spam made the entire exercise

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Danny Lieberman wrote: Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:41:38 +0300 From: Danny Lieberman dan...@software.co.il To: Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il Cc: ILUG linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support Yonatan what you're

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Danny Lieberman
good for you. I disagree with the Google security statement and since my cost is zero for spam free content and always up mail services for 4 business units I would say that zero is always more cost-effective than your own time. I can't argue the security point with you because there are always

lftp question

2009-08-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi people, I'm trying to download some stuff with a small script, and I'm using lftp Can someone give a simple example (using lftp and -c) to access web site with user/pass through script? example: http://domain.com/test/private/ with username: XX and pass: YY It seems this is one of the cases

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Yuval Hager
On Tuesday 18 August 2009, Danny Lieberman wrote: Google Applications. It's free and it's great Don't even think about hosting your own Webmail - Don't forget that Google is a public company and will do whatever is in the best interest of its stock holders, regardless of your interest as

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Danny Lieberman wrote: You feel more secure DIY (and are probably factually less secure) I feel more secure with Google Apps (and are probably factually more secure) I like the way you give your opinion, and then back it up by your opinion of how things are. People don't leave space for the

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 18, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Your claimed price of zero disregards certain costs. For example, you do not count the cost in loss of privacy and the cost of having your emails available for parties to summon from Google using the court system without your knowledge.

spamcop complain

2009-08-18 Thread Ely Levy
Hi, It seems someone sent a spam cop about linux-il because of that accidental facebook invitation. Few notes about that: - If you want to complain about someone make sure you get the address right, and not complain about the mailing list, if you think that the mailing list is a spammer you are

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Danny Lieberman wrote: Shachar, Geoff b) the threat probability of one of our operations getting a US court injunction is so low that I don't even bother with security countermeasures. OTOH - the threat of dos/web defacing/site downtime/poor response time is high enough that we considered

Desktop Linux that Just Works

2009-08-18 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Here's the new Linux Productivity Magazine article, themed Desktop Linux that Just Works. This is the culmination of my effort to find a really good desktop Linux setup that doesn't require the user to pass a political litmus test. http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200908/200908.htm

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Danny Lieberman
Shachar You see - that as soon as we start talking about money, the risk assessment discussion gets more serious. 1. Google Apps Premium is $50/user/year ( higher volume/more demanding service levels). Google Apps Standard is free - we use it for our community involvement sites like

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Danny Lieberman wrote: 3. Use a 10kg hammer. We have clients that insist on physical destruction of the data disk after a network surveillance. Do you, at least, FIRST run the dd? I'm sure you realize that recovering data from a disk that got only the 10KG hammer is much easier (and

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Danny Lieberman
yes - dd + hammer. true story - we did a security audit for a h-tech client who conveniently put all their decommissioned disks in a barrel in the yard of the factory. :-) On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.bizwrote: Danny Lieberman wrote: 3. Use a 10kg

RE: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread ronys
Note that if you're going to dd, at least use if=/dev/urandom. Running dd several (10) times is best (or using shred(1), which does the same). Rony _ From: linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il] On Behalf Of Shachar Shemesh Sent: Tuesday, August 18,

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
ronys wrote: Note that if you're going to dd, at least use if=/dev/urandom. Running dd several (10) times is best (or using shred(1), which does the same). Rony I am familiar with the urban legend. From what I read about the technique by which you reconstruct older generation data, I'm not

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Danny Lieberman
rony good point.shred with strings of zeroes is probably even better than erasing. d 2009/8/18 ronys ro...@gmx.net Note that if you're going to dd, at least use if=/dev/urandom. Running dd several (10) times is best (or using shred(1), which does the same). Rony

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/8/18 Danny Lieberman dan...@software.co.il: d) We deploy security countermeasures to protect assets: 0) We don't use Google docs, Never. 1) None of our really sensitive assets are on Google Apps and that includes Calendar and Mail So what's left from your use of Google? BTW - do you

RE: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread ronys
Hi Shachar, 'urban legend' may be a bit strong. The reference I had in mind was http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html which is a bit dated (circa 1996, plus a couple of undated epilogues), but still an interesting read. Of course, if you're going to keep sensitive data on

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Amos Shapira wrote: 2009/8/18 Danny Lieberman dan...@software.co.il: d) We deploy security countermeasures to protect assets: 0) We don't use Google docs, Never. 1) None of our really sensitive assets are on Google Apps and that includes Calendar and Mail So what's left from your use

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Danny Lieberman
Shachar On the Internet - size is not an indication of threat surface. Ability to provision and maintain is more important. You have to engineer your solution to your needs. For us - the combination of Google Apps, slicehost (for smaller projects) / rackspace (for big projects) rocks. Google

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
ronys wrote: Hi Shachar, 'urban legend' may be a bit strong. The reference I had in mind was http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/%7Epgut001/pubs/secure_del.html which is a bit dated (circa 1996, plus a couple of undated epilogues), but

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Michael Tewner
2009/8/18 Danny Lieberman dan...@software.co.il Shachar On the Internet - size is not an indication of threat surface. Ability to provision and maintain is more important. You have to engineer your solution to your needs. For us - the combination of Google Apps, slicehost (for smaller

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Danny Lieberman
Mike Allow me to give you a cold dose of reality A. Internal email is never 'confidential'. 1. As long as you have Web access, mobile devices and USB sticks - you may assume that everything an employee has access to in the company can and will be sent to people outside the company. This is not

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Danny Lieberman wrote: Mike To set the record straight - my comment about preferring Google Apps mail/calendar related to a fairly innocent question by Yonatan regarding the allternatives to Squirell Mail etc for Hebrew support. Then lets, do, return to the original question. Does gmail

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/8/19 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz Danny Lieberman wrote: Mike To set the record straight - my comment about preferring Google Apps mail/calendar related to a fairly innocent question by Yonatan regarding the allternatives to Squirell Mail etc for Hebrew support. Then lets,

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-18 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/8/19 Danny Lieberman dan...@software.co.il I don't sell Google Apps but I suggest reading their story at http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/details.html To ask my question again - if you say that you use Google Apps but not Google Docs or GMail or Calendar - so what's left in