[Xitami] OT: sqirrell mail

[Thomas J. Hruska]

At 10:42 AM 4/14/2005 -0700, Charles Schmidling writeth:
>Johannes,
>
>I'm curious.  You have Mercury Server running.
>
>Mercury installed with no pain.  I've been playing with it a little and have
>been able to get the php mail function work with it.
>
>So what's the advantage to Squirrel Mail?

The main advantage is that I can mail the original authors of Squirrel Mail
in the first place and get a same-day response from them (Luke and Nathan
Ehresman).  Granted they aren't the owners of that popular project any
more, but I know them personally.

Squirrel Mail was made to allow PHP to talk to IMAP and POP3 servers
without the need for add-on modules by only using PHP's TCP/IP sockets
implementation.  You simply download it and it works.  At least that was
the idea.  It expanded from there to add multi-lingual support, custom
themes, etc.  You know...the way open source naturally bloats itself
needlessly :)

>From what I gathered, the Squirrl Mail code base used to have a lot of
unnecessary Apache/PHP-specific dependencies.  Maybe the current team has
fixed some of those more recently so IIS and other servers can use it
without nearly as many issues.


Thomas J. Hruska
Shining Light Productions
http://www.slproweb.com/