Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:12:31 +0100 From: "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> To: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Subject: RE: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.61.9.0501071108580.8516@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> In-Reply-To: <1105090869.708.113.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGEPFEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <Pine.NEB.4.61.9.0501070952570.8516@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> <1105090869.708.113.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com>
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On Jan 7 at 09:41, Peter Risdon launched this into the bitstream: > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:59 +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: >> On Jan 6 at 21:41, Ted Mittelstaedt launched this into the bitstream: >> >>> Use IMP. Of course, some people pooh-pooh it saying it's hard >>> to setup. However, IMP is one of those programs that is worth >>> the effort, as if you install the entire suite of programs you >>> have a very powerful front end mail system. >>> >> >> I *gather* (not in front of a FreeBSD box at this moment) that IMP is >> *not* in ports, otherwise (surely) installation wouldn't be *that* >> complex? Configging maybe, but install-wise ports 'apps just; "slide >> right in there" - usually :-) > > I'm baffled by all this. IMP is easy to install and set up. It is in the > ports tree, together with several other useful horde components: > >> From /usr/ports/www/horde2/pkg-descr: > > Horde is used by these ports: mail/imp3, mail/turba, devel/chora, > deskutils/kronolith, deskutils/nag, www/jonah, net/nic, devel/whups, > and deskutils/mnemo > > Horde applications have an intuitive folder structure, clearly > identified config files and, the dozen or so times I've had to set this > up, it's always just worked first time. > I think the difficulties arise where there is no application distribution mechanism such as ports. Now you mention it, I seem to recall a shedload of issues if you had to download the source and build it by hand. There were definite gotchas in that process I believe.
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