Re: Pal? FWD: Multiple addressbooks

[Tyler A. <ty...@bo...>]

[please forward this back to whomever, if you think it will help answer their questions]

> First of all, would it be
> possible for Squirrelmail to support a plugin for multiple
> addressbooks.  We have a "floating" address book that holds all of the
> faculty and staff here.  When the users start their Eudora, this list is
> retrieved and stored as a separate nickname file in Eudora.

Sounds like LDAP would be ideal here.  It wouldn't get mixed in with the .abook file, no individual upkeep is necessary (update the server and everything is updated), plus it will work with other email software -- Outlook, Netscape, etc.

> Another question brought up by some of my colleagues is the support for
> formatted text.  I'm not sure if you've used Yahoo! mail, but if so,
> there is a toolbar on their webmail interface that looks similar to an MS
> Word toolbar with buttons for Bold, Italics, Underline, and other types
> of text formatting tools.  Some of the users here were wondering if that
> is possible for Squirrelmail. (I know that using html tags will work, but
> I cant expect my users to do that).  This is really a convenience factor
> so I don't consider it too important.  In my personal opinion, all email
> should be plain text. Unfortunatley not everyone here shares that view.

I'd guess that the editor is in Java.  If so, I'm sure there's a way we could copy it or get something similar and put that into the compose.php (maybe for 1.2 or SM2?)

> Lastly, is there planned support for IMAP-SSL to Squirrelmail?  In order
> to make a secure connection currently, we've had to make an SSL
> webserver, and an stunnel connection between the webserver and IMAP
> server.  Having native support for SSL IMAP would greatly simplify
> things.

Until PHP has SSL built into it, we can't do much here.  It looks like stunnel (or equivalent) will be necessary.

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Tyler Akins                  "I have not failed.  I have just found 10,000
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