[Ilugc] PM office plagued by viruses
- From: rad.narayanan@xxxxxxxxx (varadarajan narayanan)
- Date: Mon Mar 16 14:09:30 2009
The replacement is Squirrel Mail!!! Now those guys will compare it
with Outlook Express and think all of open source software is user
unfriendly! Why did they not think of Thunderbird!!!
what is wrong with squirrelmail? and how do you compare it with
thunderbird?
afaik squirrelmail is a server and thunderbird is a client. Or do you not
know
th difference between a client and a server?
Squirrelmail is a server ???
Squirrelmail is a web based email client (MUA).
Hi !
I see that there is a lot of confusion here. Terminology is being used very
loosely.
1) Squirrelmail is an application wriiten in php. So it needs a web server
with PHP 4 installed.
2) You need a IMAP4 server (e.g. uw-imap, courier-imap, cyrus-imap,
[hMailServer] <
http://www.hmailserver.com/>, Binc IMAP,
CommuniGate<
http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/CommuniGate>,
MS Exchange Server <
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/webmail.htm#>,
MercuryMail<
http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MercuryMail>32,
[Dovecot] <
http://www.dovecot.org/>) for it to work.
3) You need a web browser and when you point to the web server it renders
your web mail and has all the functionality you would want from an email
client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder
manipulation.
So functionally it is a mail client but it is a php application sitting on a
web server and gets mail from IMAP mail servers !
refer to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquirrelMail
Cheers
varadarajan
www.cloudversity.com
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