On 09/02/2010 16:00, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
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.
Yes, and that's an important consideration when choosing a webmail
client. It's very difficult to make a webmail cient work equally well as
a mobile client and as a replacement for a desktop client.
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.
The main issues with large volumes of mail are being able to visually
scan through it using a preview pane instead of having to step through
each message in turn, and being able to mass-move multiple emails by
click-select and drag-and-drop. These are things that are easy to
implement on a desktop client, but hard to do on a webmail client. Also,
for list mail, threading is an essential feature for many people
(including myself), and a client (either desktop or web) that doesn't
support it is simply too non-functional to be used except as a backup.
Mark
