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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:04:41 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        anderson@centtech.com
Cc:        Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IMAP server recommendations
Message-ID:  <3CC6C989.A3BD9D03@mindspring.com>
References:  <20020424074820.K30474@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <3CC68B68.A07C1D97@mindspring.com> <3CC6A570.C4D79C78@centtech.com>

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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

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