Re: Inclusion of cyrus-imapd and mimedefang (plus webmail)
If you'll give it consideration I could rip AngleMail out of
phpGroupWare into a standalone webmail.
(I'd do it for the fame of the few people who know me ...)
www.anglemail.org
there is a demo of an older version at:
https://demo.axisgroupware.org:4430/login.php
check out the email part of the demo.
Paul Iadonisi (pri.rhl1(a)iadonisi.to) wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:35:41PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
[snip]
> We're actually considering for this upcoming release:
>
> - adding in cyrus-imap
> - taking out uw-imap
>
> Opinions?
My vote is definite thumbs up for cyrus-imap. Simon Matter's rpms have
also been well put together (and have only been getting better) and would
probably only require minor tweaks to fit into Red Hat Linux nicely.
On a sort of related note, I'd like to see something better than
squirrelmail (or an additional choice) for webmail. I know that comment
might generate some flames, but my problem with it is that it claims to be
modular, but I have a hard time calling something modular when most of
the additional modules I've seen require modification of some other source
files. Maybe it's bad module design, but I suspect that's not the case.
I'd rather see something that treats modules the way, for example, drupal
does (http://www.drupal.org/). Drop the right .module file in modules
directory and add whatever other files you need to, and the function is
added. No mucking around with core source files.
I tried out squirrelmail mostly because I didn't want to learn sieve
(I can be lazy at times :-)) and saw that it had a sieve module. But then
I got frustrated because I could just apply the errata for squirrelmail and
expect everything to work. Sieve is but *one* of the reasons I like
cyrus-imapd. It would be nice to have a webmail program (that handled
sieve or had extensions for it) that was a little easier to deal with
from admin point of view.
Alternatives? Not sure. Horde's IMP, possibly, but I don't know how
well it meets my above criteria, and I know it's a whole suite of web apps,
so it would have to be looked a more closely. Don't want TOO much cruft.
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