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I had been using Squirrelmail for about two years and I decided I wanted |
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a little more integration with a calendar and addressbook and a |
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"prettier" or slightly more intuitive interface for my not-so-tecchie |
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wife. And from a security standpoint, I require the wonderful ability |
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of Squirrelmail (can't remember if it's a plugin) to ignore downloading |
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external images, whose URLs can be encoded for spam lists. Well so far, |
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I haven't found it. |
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I've tried Horde IMP, eGroupware, MoreGroupware, and a couple other |
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PHP-based ones and I prefer the speed and relative safety of |
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Squirrelmail. After the rather heavy emerge of Horde and a config I |
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couldn't find a way to integrate the addressbook with it's email. That |
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would seem to be pretty important, so I'm thinking it's something I'm |
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missing, but if something that necessary/basic is that difficult, it's a |
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red flag to me. |
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eGroupware's nice enough, but I don't like how it pulls external links |
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in via e-mail. It's FeLaMiMail doesn't allow that, but that's also |
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lacking some basic functionality (e.g. ability to move a message to |
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another folder while viewing the message). And FeLaMiMail doesn't play |
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nice with eG's built-in mail, at least with UW's IMAP and mbox (I'll |
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stand by while I'm ripped on for that decision ;). Also, eG apparently |
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requires "mbstring.func_overload = 7" in the php.ini, which breaks other |
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PHP-based products I have, like Drupal. |
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I installed MoreGroupware, but for the life of me can't recall even what |
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it looks like. I seem to remember some addressbook integration issues |
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or something, but don't quote me on that. I'm guessing I wasn't |
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impressed... |
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I'm probably going back to Squirrelmail if I can get it to talk with |
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PostgreSQL properly (easier and more flexible setup, backup, and |
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recovery than MySQL). In the meantime, I'd like to find another |
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web-mail alternative, preferrably in PHP so I can fix/improve some minor |
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things myself and because it's much "lighter" than Java (still haven't |
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found any Java-based program worth the hassle other than maybe Azureus). |
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I would like to try even something heavy like SuSE/Novell's OpenXchange, |
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but am a little hesitant to try Tomcat on my li'l home server with only |
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384MB of RAM... |
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If you find something "better" than Squirrelmail, let us know! |
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Rich |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: xyon [mailto:xyon@×××××××××××.com] |
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Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 6:43 AM |
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To: gentoo-server@l.g.o |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] webmail software |
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I agree (about "better"), I should've been a bit more descriptive. |
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The only reason I haven't checked out horde-imp is there are so many |
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dependencies for it. Is it worth loading all that PEAR stuff? |
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Thanks for the suggestion! |
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