Jacob L. Leifman wrote:
So far this thread has focused on the various IMAP based solutions and
the merits of the many alternate components to such. Keying off some
comments in the OP (below) I would like to point out that there _is_
an OpenBSD package openwebmail-2.51p1.tgz for a non-IMAP webmail. A few
of the things that I like about this solution are:
- it is written entirely in perl (no php or other non-base prereqs)
- it works well when deployed on the mail server or over POP3
- its interface is very clean yet fairly feature rich
- it is browser agnostic and renders decently even on mobiles
Again, I bring this up only because it seems to me that the original
goal was a simple non-IMAP solution and this suggestion should be taken
completely independent of the rest of this thread -- IMAP adds
capabilities and complexities that make any comparison of solutions
with and without it mostly invalid.
I looked at openwebmail very seriously.
Openwebmail requires apache to be run unchrooted.
The other options I found were not perl based, which I like, but PHP based.
I basically had to decide between PHP or unchrooting apache.
Tough choice. I went with squirrelmail, which is PHP.
Chroot or not chroot, that is the question!?
Chris Bennett
