> > > > > 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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
