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I've also found Squirrelmail the most practical so far (despite a couple |
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of minor niggles with it) |
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I've tried Imp3 a couple of times so far, but had issues with it, and |
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got really annoyed at the lack of a folder list on the left (when I |
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managed to get it to find my sub-folders) |
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I know the latest version of Imp has included the folder lists, and |
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people are saying theres some speedups, which is great.. except its |
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masked.. and i'm not too comfortable installing untested web applications. |
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Has anyone done a decent (independant) review of the latest Imp code? |
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Could I feel safe installing it - from a security perspective? |
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Has anyone written a script or process for moving squirrelmail |
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preferences and addressbooks (stored in MySQL) to Imp3? |
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Seeing as anyone hasnt mentioned it yet.. DONT consider SQWebMail. I've |
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been forced to use it for certain mailboxes on a different server for |
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the last couple of years, and it really is awful. Your users will hate you. |
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Theres also IlohaMail, but i wasnt overly impressed with that - I cant |
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remember why. I've seen a few pretty webmail apps around, but most of |
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them are still so early in production I dont feel comfortable trying them. |
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Jeremy B |
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Jesse, Rich wrote: |
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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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