> On 02/22/2002 02:12 PM, Steve Wright wrote:
> 
>> Can someone recommend me a good webmail package ?
>> At somepoint in the near future I will need to setup webmail on our 
>> production servers & after seeing the security squirrelmail offers I 
>> think it will be very hard to make a case for it.
>>
>> I know of imp, mulberry & silkymail but have not used any of these 
>> packages.
>> What I would really like is people who have webmail running to tell me 
>> what they feel the pros & cons are with the packages they are using.
>>


We use IMHO (http://www.lysator.liu.se/~stewa/IMHO/) that works with the open 
source Roxen (http://www.roxen.com) web server. It is one of the few webmail 
servers that maintains a persistant connection for each session, making it 
faster than any other webmail that I have used. It is highly customizable. The 
webmail server is written in a dynamically compiled language called Pike, so 
code changes do not require a recompile. It saves a preference file on the IMAP 
server. We are running it on 4 load balanced Sun Netra T1's. They are very 
reliable; I rarely have to deal with them.

No, it will not work under Apache.

The only problem that I have found is a memory leak that causes the Roxen 
process to grow in size until it consumes almost all system memory. We deal with 
this by restarting the servers on a time staggered basis.

There is also a webmail/web server based on the IMHO/Roxen system called Camas 
(http://camas.caudium.net) that runs on the Caudium webserver 
(http://www.caudium.net). I have not tried it, but plan to.

Regards,
Tom





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