[Tfug] SquirelMail alternatives?

[Benjamin Krein]

I poked at Zimbra briefly once.  It's a VERY polished looking webmail 
service with lots of AJAX stuff and full groupware capabilities (IIRC) 
including connectors for popular mail clients.

The upsides:
1. It's a really nice looking interface - makes the browser look and 
feel like a real desktop application
2. It has connectors/plugins for various popular mail clients to talk to 
it (these were in various stages of development when I looked last)
3. Lots of AJAX goodness - again, makes it look and feel like a real 
desktop application and the AJAX addons are generally intuitive and 
helpful, not flashy
4. It's OSS (there is a community version that is OSS last I checked)
5. It's based on well-known OSS software (ie, OpenLDAP, Postfix, 
Cyrus-IMAP (I think), Apache, etc.)

The downsides:

1. It may not be free for commercial use (I don't remember)
2. It needs a BEEFY server - it's a pretty massive groupware package & I 
think it's written in Java, so you need quality equipment to run it 
(thus my very brief experience with it)
3. It's not as easy to setup as Squirrelmail (or likely as fast due to 
it's complexity)

Benjamin Krein
www.superk.org

Brian Masur wrote:
> Might I recommend...  Squirrelmail?  :D  You don't have to use the default 
> config, you can customize it.  Not sure why you'd imply that it's 1) 
> unstable, 2) insecure, and 3) obsolete, so please tell us.
>
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>> From: James <mylists2004 at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
>> To: tfug at tfug.org
>> Subject: [Tfug] SquirelMail alternatives?
>> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:55:18 -0700
>>
>> I'm looking for a 1) stable, 2) secure, and 3) modern web based client for
>> 500-users postfix mail server. It has to have a modern (maybe Ajax)
>>     
> --SNIP--
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