Re: [moregroupware-devel] Next release? Here's the plan...

[Thomas B. <ema...@gm...>]

Hi,

great to hear that you want to contribute to mgw !
if you need any help in understanding the webmail-module or even the 
code (it's not documented ... ) feel free to mail me any questions.
perhaps you have someone who can read the mozilla-mail sources ?
Mozilla has a very intelligent caching system for headers and folders on 
imap, this makes it extremely fast using it with imap. perhaps we can 
use some moz-technology in the webmail module ... ;-)

bye
tom


M. Benjamin Mehling wrote:

>>I'm working for a while on the imap-support, the main problem is
>>performance. Downloading the whole email every time you view 
>>it is very slow, so I'm looking for a code that only fetches the 
>>important parts of each mail (squirrelmail only fetches one part,
>>so when viewing rfc822s [= mails attached to a mail] you always
>>need to open a new window). Next problem is reading all folders
>>(or only the subscribed ones for ms exchange) and error-handling
>>using different mail-servers. I'm looking for a solution that uses 
>>    
>>
>
>Yes, Squirrelmail is slow in a lot of cases -- especially w/ large email
>boxes.  In my limited programming w/ IMAP, I've found it VERY difficult
>and slow to access message parts (i.e. just the Subject: line).  It
>doesn't appear that IMAP really lets the programmer do this efficiently.
>
>From my perspective, the strength of IMAP is the ability to receive,
>store, manage, and send email from any IMAP client while all the email
>information is stored on the server.  This allows you to use whatever
>client is most applicable to your current location (i.e. at a remote
>location, or sitting at your desktop, or sitting at your laptop).  
>
>I'm not at the point yet, where I can spend much time on the webmail
>module, as we are looking to roll out the calendar, contact, and todo
>modules first.
>
>Once those are in place and the users are acclimated to the system,
>we'll look harder at helping out w/ the IMAP module.  Thanks for your
>continuing efforts on this front.  As I said, it is very slick -- I
>could see the module easily rivaling MS Exchange's webmail client in
>functionality.  Nice work! :)
>
>  
>
>>As Kartsten said there is a big need for developers. Moreover we need
>>more people testing the modules intensively. I'm finding about 99% of
>>all bugs in the webmail-module, perhaps this can change in the future
>>because tests take a lot of time. (I'm also working 40-60h every weak
>>and studying informatics, so time for developing and testing is really
>>rare.)
>>    
>>
>
>Understood.  As I said, my company is planning to roll out a few modules
>at a time.  We are a small start-up w/ many things on our plate
>development-wise, however we've looked at and evaluated quite a few of
>these groupware type systems.  Moregroupware is our favorite and we
>consider the most viable.  
>
>We hope to begin helping w/ development of this system in the coming
>weeks.  We are still trying to figure out the best way to manage the
>source tree on our end, as well as continue to take updates from the
>community.
>
>Additionally, our PHP knowledge and understanding of common PHP
>programming practices is not up to par.  We are working hard to
>understand MGW's layout so we can start to help out.
>
>Thanks much for your time and comments!
>
>- Ben
>
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