Re: Webmail. Which package do you like? Anything out there with better interface than Squirrelmail?

[Nigel Wade <nmw ion le ac uk>]

Ben Steeves wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:59:43 -0500, Chris Barnes <chris-barnes tamu edu> wrote:
>
> > Apollo at Carmel Music & Entertainment <lists carmelme com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have been using IMP (from http://horde.org), I have tried before
> > > Squirrelmail (but the interface is super ugly). Do I have any other
> > > options? Horde/IMP webmail is pain in the rear to configure, buggy
> > > too.
> > >
> > > What else is out there?
> >
> > I've used both Horde and Squirrelmail.  You've already dis'd my favorite
> > (squirrelmail).
>
>
> IMP is pretty but the page sizes are huge -- on a slow cable/DSL link,
> it's painful... on dial-up it's practically unusable!  Squirrelmail
> isn't as pretty but it's much lighter-weight and really has a lot of
> good functionality under the hood (plugins and such).  My vote is also
> for Squirrelmail.

Another advantage of Squirrelmail is that it uses IMAP to communicate with 
the server. It can be run on a different system to the mail server, and if 
users have IMAP clients on the desktop and use Squirrelmail remotely they 
have access to the same set of folders.

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