On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:21:56AM -0700, rkl wrote: > Thanks. > > If you have an opinion on squirrelmail, openwebmail and sqwebmail, I would > like to know what you think about them for email hosting service? That is, > the ability to brand it. > > I kinda like the idea of separating the webmail part from the email server. > That is my biggest hangup with evaluating sqwebmail.
You can separate them by having an NFS backend for storing the mail directories. This is a very scalable and resilient solution - multiple MX receivers, multiple POP3/IMAP servers, multiple webmail servers. But you want a really high-performance and reliable NFS server - we use Netapp (http://www.netapp.com/) - which are superb but very expensive. In practice I've found sqwebmail to perform extremely well under ISP load, because it's written in C (minimal startup overhead) and uses direct maildir access (no POP/IMAP overhead). But it's certainly not the prettiest or most user-friendly interface. Branding it leaves you at risk of having to modify all your templates when a new version of sqwebmail comes out. What I do is allow users to replace the images and the stylesheet, but not touch the raw templates themselves. You can always make your own custom login page which POSTs the username/password directly to sqwebmail, and leave the rest of the templates untouched. Regards, Brian. > > -rkl > > > Brian Candler writes: > > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:09:19AM -0700, rkl wrote: > >> But if you don't mind, I'm looking for the location of the style sheet on > >> (redhat 9 linux). Can you tell me where to look? > > > > It's called sqwebmail.css, and it will be installed wherever your /images/ > > directory was installed. > > > > If you know where your Apache htdocs directory is, it should be under there > > - e.g. /usr/local/apache/htdocs/images/sqwebmail.css > > > > Regards, > > > > Brian. > > >
