On 09/02/2010 11:53, Thijssen wrote:
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:28, Mark Goodge<m...@good-stuff.co.uk>
wrote:
But for day-to-day use as a long-term replacement for a desktop
client, or for any user who gets a much larger than normal volume
of mail,
What do you mean by that?
Hundreds, or even thousands, of messages a day.
it's too lacking in functionality. That's what more full-featured
webmail clients, such as Horde and Roundcube, are trying to
address, albeit at the cost of additional complexity from a
sysadmin perspective.
Plus at the cost of speed and responsiveness for the majority of
users who don't require fancy features.
Indeed. That's why you have to provide what your users need.
Squirrelmail suits some users. Roundcube or Horde suit others. There is
no one size that fits all.
What appears to be the most important complaint I get from users is
summed up by this;
"I don't care about nice looking buttons or 3D Windows and all that
crap, I just want a working and reliable e-mail client. One that
doesn't reformat messages. No HTML and no annoying popups."
and they all detest Outlook and Outlook Express (and Exchange
webmail) as well, so that might illustrate the types of users that
prefer Squirrelmail.
Possibly, although there are different reasons for detesting OE and
Outlook. OE and Outlook are crap desktop clients; most experienced
high-volume mail users prefer better clients such as Thunderbird. If
your users also detest Thunderbird, then yes, Squirrelmail is probably
right up their street. But if they like Thunderbird, then they'll
probably find Squirrelmail rather limited by comparison.
But saying they don't handle large volumes of
mail is a weird assumption to say the least. I'd say the average user
box I maintain squirrelmail-thunderbird for recieves about 80 emails
daily, and their Mail folders are around 6 GB in size per user.
80 would be a very low figure for the type of use I'm thinking of. The
people I know who complain about Squirrelmail's limitations generally
get several hundred emails a day.
Mark
