<quote who="Bruce Richardson"> > 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 > >
For the external webmail that the frequent world travelers will be using I will probly put squirrelmail on its own computer just for security reasons alone. I never thought about the personal address book, that was a good tip. I guess the users will need to take that into consideration when they put there votes out for squirrelmail. I do not have the time nor knowledge to make a personal address like you did for your users. They will just haft to live without it or maybe keep a list of there personel address in the notes plugin for now. Thanks for the good informaion -- Avery ------------------------------------------------------- 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
