Maciej Sołtysiak wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have 3 suggestions regarding the setup of squirrelmail in Bill's toaster. > > One is to let sq now that we're running courier-imap > > ./conf.pl > press 2 > press a > type 'courier' > pree R to return
This is already the case: go to Server Settings (2) and change the Server Software from "other" to "courier" (a) > Two is to enable serverside (ie. imap) sort and search instead of PHPs > to speed up displaying of messages. > I have about 1500 messages and it takes some time after they show up if > these options are not enabled, and if they are, it's a snap. > So, being in the main menu: > > press 4 > press 10 > press y > > press 11 > press y > press R to return This is a good idea. Mine is already set this way, but it should be in the toaster. > Three is to enable lossy encoding. I always thought that option sounds > bad but It is required if you expect > people to respond in other charsets than iso-8859-1. Eg. if this option > is not enabled and a user receives > a UTF-8 encoded message, then when replying to it, he (the user) will > see that those UTF-8 characters are being > badly encoded. This fixes it (and of course introduces the possibility > that unknown characters will be converted to > question marks) and my users have all the stuff showing right now. > > The same can be achieved by finding and setting these 3 options in > config.php: > $imap_server_type = 'courier'; > $allow_thread_sort = true; > $allow_server_sort = true; I'll experiment with this one. I know for example that Thunderbird frequently asks about encoding, so it must be pretty prevalent. Thanks! Bill
