On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 10:44:16PM -0700, Avery Day wrote: > Does anyone think going completely webmail based using squirrelmail for > the MUA is a bad idea? Does anyone have any thoughts on this at all? Is > there anyone in this mailing list that has done this before? If so I would > love to hear about how it has worked out.
We've done this. We encountered incredible hostility from a small minority, resentment or resignation from a larger minority, positive feedback from a significant minority. You'll need to examine what they can currently do with their mail clients and be able to offer similar functions or workarounds. One major lack in Squirrel is multiple address books. I have solved this by patching Squirrel to consult a table (we use database storage for addresses and preferences) to see which books are available to the user and providing external pages to allow staff to create, edit and share these books. The groups plugin is also not really what is needed for an organisation's single MUA, so I added another hack to Squirrel so that it treats address books (the additional ones created by users) as groups. This works by having an additional, virtual book that contains an entry for each real book, with a very funny e-mail address for each. We also use the Autocomplete plugin, so IE users can just type in the name of the book in the To/CC/Bcc boxes. Another piece of hackery then detects the book, strips it out and inserts the actual recipients. I really need to feed this back to the SquirrelMail community but I'm very busy and it requires some rewrites to the basic addressbook code. As for your hardware, I'd recommend going dual processor. Frees up a lot of bottlenecks. Put the IMAP mailstore and SquirrelMail on different servers and (if you can) put an extra NIC in both machines and give them a dedicated link on a special subnet. -- Bruce If the universe were simple enough to be understood, we would be too simple to understand it. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
