From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 24 8: 7: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 772D337B404; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:07:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0017.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.17] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 170OKT-00038d-00; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:05:10 -0700 Message-ID: <3CC6C989.A3BD9D03@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:04:41 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: anderson@centtech.com Cc: Nik Clayton , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IMAP server recommendations References: <20020424074820.K30474@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <3CC68B68.A07C1D97@mindspring.com> <3CC6A570.C4D79C78@centtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Eric Anderson wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: > > The webmail system will probably have to be "home grown". All > > of them which support IMAP, to my knowledge, also support both > > Cyrus and the UofW IMAP servers, and almost all of them support > > IMAP, since POP3 doesn't give you a mans of dealing with folders. > > I've been using SquirrelMail for about 8 months now, and it's great (I'm using > it with UW-IMAP, but it will work with Cyrus). Handles folders, filters, > messsage highlighting, all kinds of stuff. SquirrelMail has significant (IMO) usability problems, compared to RocketMail ("Yahoo mail") and HotMail. > > Almost no webmail client does all the necessary work for proper > > MIME decoding. This is a shortfall of PHP, whose primary reason > > for living has always seemed (to me) to be webmail clients. > > There are no decent PHP4 books (I generally judge them by their > > ability to directly render MIME without a hell of a lot of code). > > Again, SquirrelMail seems to do this just fine for me, and the others that use > it here at our organization. Do you have an example of something that could > break it? (I'm no expert, just relaying my experiences). http://www.imc.org/mimetest/ Also "the MIME torture test". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message