> on Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 06:38:22PM -0700, dylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: >> on a side note, i am certainly open to suggestions for a better email >> client. i have tried everything i can think of for classic macos, but >> none have been able to handle multi-byte charactersets properly.
If you have a *NIX server providing mail (or even a Windows Server if you must) and can install PHP with a webserver then you can try out SquirrelMail. I have shifted over to use SM as my primary e-mail client, and if you build PHP properly, and configure SM properly, you can get MB-character support and rely upon web-browser's ability. I have users who are Japanese, Korean, Danish, from Kazahkstahn, and several other countries who are able to read mail from my server over a web-based interface. Also, composition of e-mail relies upon the I/O of the web browser itself, and many support multibyte character encoding for web page submissions. If you add support for SSL, then you can gain the advantage of encrypted authentication and sessions. The only reason I have to go back to use mutt anymore is to read encrypted or verify gpg signed messages. (There is a gpg/pgp plugin for SquirrelMail which allows for encrypting messages being sent to others, and verifying of sigs for messages sent to you, the support it has for reading encrypted messages sent to you or signing your own messages is not suggested for use due to how this can break trust in the way that the passphrase for your key is made available on the server.) SquirrelMail is a php-based mail client system which can run on a web server, and is meant to work with IMAP servers for mail storage. I was thinking about offering to do a presentation on SquirrelMail for LUGOD over this summer, but I have no way to get there from here. (NorthBay) -ME _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
