Hello,

Has anyone tried the Open WebMail Project located at:
http://openwebmail.org/ ?

I'm looking for a new open webmail program to replace the old webmail I'm
using now on my mail servers. This looks OK from what I have seen on the
surface but it does use CGI's instead of PHP which I think PHP's would be
a better choice.

One of the things I'm looking for is the ability to work with large mail
files. I'm kind of surprised that "Open WebMail Project" in not included in
Debian...

Thanks,

Ken Rea




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> Has anyone tried the Open WebMail Project located at:
> http://openwebmail.org/ ?

As a user, yes. My old (now defunct) ISP offered it. I thought it
was alright. I could stand it when I had to use it, and I imagine
Windows users would be comfortable with it.

> I'm looking for a new open webmail program to replace the old webmail I'm
> using now on my mail servers. This looks OK from what I have seen on the
> surface but it does use CGI's instead of PHP which I think PHP's would be
> a better choice.

No idea, sorry. Frankly, I prefer CGI's over PHP, but I'm also the
type who would use C for his CGIs. :-)

> One of the things I'm looking for is the ability to work with large mail
> files. I'm kind of surprised that "Open WebMail Project" in not included in
> Debian...

I've had mail fail at new ISP when something truly despicable was
waiting, but I don't remember that happening w OWM.


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On Jan 28, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Account for Debian group mail wrote:

> Has anyone tried the Open WebMail Project located at:
> http://openwebmail.org/ ?

I used it on my personal server for a while. It had a reasonable user
interface, and no glaring bugs that I ran into. Attachment handling
was decent as well. The only reason I stopped using it is it got so I
had an IMAP client on every machine I used, so I no longer needed it.

> This looks OK from what I have seen on the
> surface but it does use CGI's instead of PHP which I think PHP's
> would be
> a better choice.

I think it's a Perl CGI. I don't think there's any major reason PHP
would be better, unless you're planning on modifying the code and are
more comfortable with PHP.

> One of the things I'm looking for is the ability to work with large
> mail
> files.

It's pretty efficient, but does slow down as the mailboxes get bigger
-- like all programs that support flat mbox mail files. If you want
good performance with really big mailboxes, you need to use something
that uses a database or maildir format.


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On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:44:31AM -0800, Account for Debian group mail wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone tried the Open WebMail Project located at:
> http://openwebmail.org/ ?
>
> I'm looking for a new open webmail program to replace the old webmail I'm
> using now on my mail servers. This looks OK from what I have seen on the
> surface but it does use CGI's instead of PHP which I think PHP's would be
> a better choice.
>
> One of the things I'm looking for is the ability to work with large mail
> files. I'm kind of surprised that "Open WebMail Project" in not included in
> Debian...
did a google and seems like it was, but it is was removed because it was full
of security problems.

I had a quick check through the webmail apps. I currently use squirrelmail,but
it looks like horde might be the way to go for me.

shared calendar, nice web interface and the ability to use postgres insteadof
mysql

>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken Rea
>
>
>
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