Fedora Core 2 wishlists

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at cs.toronto.edu
Mon Dec 8 22:54:28 UTC 2003


On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Jeremy Portzer wrote:

> It seems that any project or product should know and understand its
> competitors.  Given the prominence and popularity of Squirrelmail, it is
> really quite surprising that you claim to have no familiarity with it.
>
> Also, if you are trying to pitch your project, you really must explain
> what is better about yours.  If there aren't any better features, then
> why would anyone switch?  If there are things better, list them.  I'm
> sure the squirrelmail developers would not be hurt if you do it in a
> polite manner.  Constructive criticism is certainly welcome in the open
> source world, that's how software gets improved!

Well, any one have experiences with Horde/IMP framework?  I
prefer it to squirrelmail.  It has a clean design, a complete
suite with calendar, tasks, ....  About webmail features itself,
I can't talk right now, as I have not checked latest
SquirrelMail.

behdad


> --Jeremy
>
> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 18:56, Thomas Chung wrote:
> > I'm sorry but I can't really compare with other webmail project such as
> > squirrelmail project - http://www.squirrelmail.org/ - since I'm not familiar
> > with their project.  Besides I'd rather not comment on other similar project
> > out of respect. :)
> >
> > My intent was to have our project webmail system included in the official
> > Fedora/Red Hat distribution to give users alternative choice of webmail system
> > than already included.
> >
> > Thomas Chung
> >
> > ---------- Original Message -----------
> > From: Konstantin Riabitsev <icon at linux.duke.edu>
> > To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
> > Cc: Tung <openwebmail at turtle.ee.ncku.edu.tw>
> > Sent: 08 Dec 2003 17:02:42 -0500
> > Subject: Re: Fedora Core 2 wishlists
> >
> > > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 18:26, Thomas Chung wrote:
> > > > Please read the list of features at http://openwebmail.com/openwebmail/
> > > > and let me know if you'd like a demo account on my personal server.
> > >
> > > What does it do that squirrelmail doesn't?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > --
> > > Konstantin ("Icon") Riabitsev
> > > Duke Physics Sysadmin, RHCE
> > ------- End of Original Message -------
> >
> >
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