[Cialug] Open Source Webmail

[Dan Schlichting]

I have tried quite a few. If your talking just for yourself. You may want to
think about using Google. Since I switched mine over. I haven't had any
problems. Are you wanting to have joebob at customdomain.com or something like
xx at qwest.net

If you are using your own domain then I would recommend google.

Roundcube, had a few problems I can't remember what they were it has been a
a year or two. Atmail open was okay but wasn't being updated fast enough for
me. Plus you had to tinker with it a bit.

I used openwebmail which I think has rolled into something else. Again
develpment virtually stopped on it.

Just my .02 worth.

Dan

2009/3/26 Zachary Kotlarek <zach at kotlarek.com>

>
> On Mar 26, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>
>  Roundcube is a little better (some might say) than squirrelmail and is
>> reasonably easy to get running.
>>
>
>
> RC is much prettier than SM. But it's sometimes a bit broken. For a long
> while it did not correctly construct MIME messages, so there were problems
> sending messages with attachments (it may still not -- I haven't checked in
> the last ~3 months). And while it's moderately easy to hack in new bits
> there is still no extensions framework, so if it doesn't do exactly what you
> want you're on your own. For example, I had to hack in a "copy message"
> feature. There is also no support for S/MIME. And my clients tell me that
> the message search feature, while functional, leaves much to be desired.
>
> I think eventually RC will be a great mail client. And for personal use if
> you know what's going on and are willing to occasionally fight with it/fetch
> new versions/etc. it's not a terrible choice. But I wouldn't deploy it for
> someone else to use.
>
>
>  I found Horde to be a challenge to run.
>>
>
>
>
> It looks complicated because Horde has about 25,000 options, but it's
> really not that hard to get going. But only like 1/4 of the Horde options
> even apply to IMP, and most of them have reasonable defaults.
>
> IMP all by itself is a pretty decent mail client. It's not quite as pretty
> as RC, but it's way better than SM. There's also DIMP which is all ajaxy and
> pretty like RC, though I haven't tested it as extensively. If you install
> them both there's (virtually) no extra config and you can pick which one you
> want at login time. MIMP is also handy if you're accessing from a limited
> device, and likewise requires little extra config and can be selected at
> runtime.
>
> I would guess that any of the packaged versions of Horde/IMP are less than
> a dozen config items/commands away "working". If you're not a
> package-manager kind of guy I have a source-based install at:
>        http://zinux.cynicbytrade.com/svn/local/horde/
> that will install Horde, IMP, DIMP, MIMP, and Turba and get you to the
> point that configuration is just filling in your hostnames and setting up
> the DB and HTTP server. Even if you are a package-manager kind of guy you
> could skip the install step in my makefile and generate a mostly-working set
> of config files for reference.
>
>
>        Zach
>
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