Re: [Omail-devel] omail-webmail: what next?

[Olivier M. <om-...@om...>]

Thanks for your feedback (and work btw!) Carter,

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 23:02 -0800, Carter Smithhart wrote:
> I'd just like to point out that one of the special features that
> omail-webmail has that other webmail packages don't seem to have is the
> sheer number of translations.

yes, getting the translations was really motivating :)   But Squirrel
and IMP both have many translations too:
http://www.squirrelmail.org/about.php or http://www.horde.org/imp/about/

> Here are a few ideas that I've had which may or may not revitalize the
> project:
> - Implement omail-webmail using Template Toolkit (bugzilla uses it) to
> allow easier separation of code and UI. This allows a non-programmer to
> modify the UI without having to change the logic that drives the app. 
> - Rewrite omail-webmail using the perl MailTool library. This would
> allow omail-webmail to access imap, pop3, maildir, mbox, MH, and Outlook
> Express (dbx) folders all at the same time or per user.

Well, both would require quite a 99% rewrite, so a few hundred hours...
Do you have so much time? If you're still student, maybe :)  But I'm not
one anymore. And with IMAP, is there really a need for maildir,
mh, pop3, etc. support? Well, it would surely be interesting to code:
this may be the positive point :)

> I also question whether or not webmail-omail has a future with products
> such as squirrelmail being available, so I am curious to know what other
> users of webmail-omail think.

Yep, let's see :)   
regards,
Olivier
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