[Omail-devel] Re: Omail-devel digest, Vol 1 #337 - 1 msg

[Piotrek <lan...@dk...>]

Hi,
I'm still using omail-webmail2 as a main "web-mail-api" and I think it
serves quite well.
In my opinion, if You may develope this project so please do it.
I also understand it's not an easy duty.
Anyway, if You decide not to continue webmail, it'd be very useful for all
of us if You propose some alternative (and simple way to migrate).
...but think twice and rethink !

Best regards, Piotrek

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>    1. omail-webmail: what next? (Olivier Mueller)
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> Subject: [Omail-devel] omail-webmail: what next?
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> Hello, bonjour!
>
> Since a few months I'm wondering what to do with the
> omail-webmail project: should it be continued or
> stopped? This is what I'd like to ask you (the =~ 200
> people one these lists).
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> The main concern I had 4 years ago, when I started
> omail-webmail (forked from the Neomail project) was speed
> & performance (& fun :) : it was then the case with direct
> Maildir access compared to complex access via imap.
> Openwebmail continued on this way for "mbox-based" accounts
> (www.openwebmail.org), with many nice features, while
> omail-webmail stayed a bit behind: there are many
> features missing, especially folders support and
> decoding of base64-encoded mails to name just two of them.
>
> But omail-webmail is now old and IMHO not secure
> enough for "serious" hosting (it even came on bugtraq last year:
> http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/334056 and there
> are probably other security issues): I belive that
> running a suidperl based CGI is not the best solution
> nowadays. Other problem: the installation is still quite
> complex (check the ML archive :).
>
>
> Today it's easier to setup qmail + vmailmgr + courier-imap
> and an imap-based webmail like squirrelmail than the
> same with omail-webmail, there are even automated tools to
> do that (cf freshmeat). And it's safer for the server too:
> no more suidperl, and PHP is quite standard now too.
> I remember that it wasn't the case 3-4 years ago, with
> IMP/horde setup and uw-imapd libraries, etc.
>
> So the question is: what next? :-)  Are there still
> people/servers using omail-webmail?
>
>
> >From a personal point of view, I think I'd rather concentrate
> on other open source projects (omail-admin, ospam: spam
> fighing add-on for qmail+vmailmgr, and phpmyadmin) than
> spending more time on omail-webmail, trying to reinvent the
> wheel and implement weird things (MIME support, attachments
> decoding, folders support etc) which are already nicely
> programmed elsewhere (squirrel, IMP, etc.). Or are
> there people around willing to continue de developement
> of omail-webmail?
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>
> All my customers are still using omail-webmail, so
> in any case I will have to find a solution anyway :).  Now
> I'm thinking about an automated transition to
> squirrelmail, with scripts to (server-wide) convert
> omail's pseudo folders to courier-imap compatible IMAP
> folders, and if possible do the same with the addressbook.
> Maybe you even already coded something like that?
>
>
> Feedback welcome!  It was fun working with you :-)
>
> Regards,
> Olivier
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