Re: Edit Mail Configuration plugin

[Chris W. <c.d...@re...>]

Did you get a chance to look at the plugin? I know you were very busy last 
weekend with the release of 0.5. Do you think it has too limited an audience 
(being for UNIX and needing ftp compiled into PHP etc.)?

I've since modified a copy of your filters plugin to produce an Exim config 
file for server-side filtering. However, I think that will be interesting 
for a vanishingly small group of people (Exim + UNIX + ftp compiled into PHP 
etc. ;-)).

I think I'm likely to lose the battle to make SquirrelMail the webmail 
client for this academic year. The roxen-based IMHO is likely to win in the 
short term as it is quite robust and uses persistent IMAP connections. 
However, it is not being actively developed, as far as I can tell.

In the longer term, the competition is WING, a perl-based client written by 
Oxford University and in use in several other UK universities (again, using 
persistent IMAP). It looks like a real pain to install, though.

What really impresses me with SquirrelMail is the plugin ability and its 
rapid development. I'm hoping my plugins might persuade the powers that be 
that SquirrelMail is the way to go ...

Best Wishes,
Chris

On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 11:51:05 -0500 Lewis Bergman <lbe...@ab...> 
wrote:

> 
> > P.S. We're doing an evaluation of webmail clients here in Reading, and 
> > SquirrelMail is my personal favourite. The only downside is that it doesn't 
> > use persistent IMAP connections (yet?).
> > 
> This is a limitation of PHP at this point. Pallo is considering writing a PHP4
> persistent function to put into the PHP source.
> 
> --
> Lewis Bergman
> Texas Communications
> 4309 Maple St.
> Abilene, TX 79602
> 915-695-6962

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