On Sep 7, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Jose wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for some advice about webmail clients. I'm still using
sqwebmail because it's very lighter and accesses maildirs directly.
Now I'm gonna move to a new server, and I'm looking for a new
webmail client for my toaster. With more than 20,000 users
accessing daily the webmail, I'm afraid the system gets very slow
with a php-based client such Squirrelmail or Imp.
Another solution is Openwebmail, a perl webclient that accesses
maildirs directly (with a patch).
So, what do you recommend ? Horde/Imp, Squirrelmail or should I
sacrifice some beauty functions and use sqwebmail or openwebmail
instead ?
I doubt you will find better performance than SqWebmail. All IMAP
clients pale in comparison. But last time I checked, SqWebmail
*still* didn't have a search feature, and some of the HTML is hard
coded. Two things that made it less appealing. I've also found it
ignores my "do not archive" settings, and always archives my sent mail.
Anyway, IMP is more feature filled, looks very nice, but is a bit
sluggish. SquirrelMail has a really easy to use plugin architecture,
uses its own imap functions (not the imap extension), so it's more
appealing to work with in some regards. That's what I use currently.
You might also have a look at RoundCube. Itt uses AJAX nicely to
have more of desktop feel to it, and the skin looks like
Thunderbird. Looks very promising. But for performance, it's still
IMAP and if you have a really really big mailbox like mine, it can be
sluggish.
Regards,
Bill
