Hi! On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Mark Goodge <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/02/2010 11:53, Thijssen wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:28, Mark Goodge<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> But for day-to-day use as a long-term replacement for a desktop >>> client, or for any user who gets a much larger than normal volume >>> of mail, >> >> What do you mean by that? > > Hundreds, or even thousands, of messages a day.
So?? please read on..... > >>> it's too lacking in functionality. That's what more full-featured >>> webmail clients, such as Horde and Roundcube, are trying to >>> address, albeit at the cost of additional complexity from a >>> sysadmin perspective. >> >> Plus at the cost of speed and responsiveness for the majority of >> users who don't require fancy features. > > Indeed. That's why you have to provide what your users need. > Squirrelmail suits some users. Roundcube or Horde suit others. There is > no one size that fits all. True. But, what about the users who love "simple things", for example, I use operamini a lot (on a really old w200 sony ericsson), and I hate when I can't use a site becuase it use.... flash, ajax, and those stuff that are just fancy. > >> What appears to be the most important complaint I get from users is >> summed up by this; >> >> "I don't care about nice looking buttons or 3D Windows and all that >> crap, I just want a working and reliable e-mail client. One that >> doesn't reformat messages. No HTML and no annoying popups." >> >> and they all detest Outlook and Outlook Express (and Exchange >> webmail) as well, so that might illustrate the types of users that >> prefer Squirrelmail. > > Possibly, although there are different reasons for detesting OE and Outlook. > OE and Outlook are crap desktop clients; most experienced high-volume mail > users prefer better clients such as Thunderbird. If your users also detest > Thunderbird, then yes, Squirrelmail is probably right up their street. But > if they like Thunderbird, then they'll probably find Squirrelmail rather > limited by comparison. mmmm... it depends, if you use squirrelmail, you will be able to read your mail using any phone using operamini, that's a neat feature. > >> But saying they don't handle large volumes of >> mail is a weird assumption to say the least. I'd say the average user >> box I maintain squirrelmail-thunderbird for recieves about 80 emails >> daily, and their Mail folders are around 6 GB in size per user. > > 80 would be a very low figure for the type of use I'm thinking of. The > people I know who complain about Squirrelmail's limitations generally get > several hundred emails a day. Please, just tell me: what does the volume of mail has to do with the webmail client? I mean, I could get 1000 mails at once, and squirrel would just show me the "latest" when I refresh the page: no delays, no problems, also felamimail (egroupware), and IMP (horde).... so, what do you want a mail client to do with your 1000's mails? read them for you and parse them, so that you get the "most important first".... I mean, there is no web client that do that, and if you really need to do something like that, use dovecot and sieve!. Any "client-side" filtering for 1000's of mails a day, could be slow, unless it is a desktop client. Please, refine your point. > > Mark > Ildefonso
