QMail, Courier-IMAP, Squirrelmail

[james@jamesmcdonald.id.au]

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:58:26PM +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 20:22, Bill Campbell wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > >I, too, use Courier-IMAP and squirrel mail. But if I had one complaint
> > >against squirrel mail it would be that all IMAP accounts must be on a
> > >single machine. I do not see that this is a user setting. No?
> > 
> > I looked briefly at squirrelmail just last week as a possible alternative
> > to horde/imp, and it appeared to support only one IMAP server.  IMP
> > supports multiple servers which may be any combination of IMAP (secure and
> > standard), POP (secure and standard).
> > 
> > In my brief testing of squirrelmail, I found it would hang on folders
> > containing a few thousand messages.

I am not sure but I think this may be the mbox format and the work the IMAP server has to do to parse the emails and render them into seperate headers. I have noticed the Maildir format returns a list in squirrelmail quicker.
> 
> I have not had this happen. It has never hung. I have folders with over
> 1000 messages, but probably not over 2000. This week...
> 
> The one-server thing aside, I like squirrel mail. For me it works as I
> only have one IMAP server at work for my mail. 

I use fetchmail to consolidate the email into the one account so no need for multi server capability yet....

> The problem we have using
> it company-wide is that we have more than one IMAP server. A fact of
> life when the company is at more than one location. We have toyed with
> the idea of a different port for each IMAP server. But why can't
> squirrel mail just allow this as part of a user's config? After all, it
> does not connect to the IMAP server before a log in. I guess that is one
> for the squirrel mail developers. I am sure there is some good reason. I
> think it could be the rather crude way it handles the various imap
> servers. They cannot all be accessed the same way. IIRC, the imap code
> in squirrel mail is not exactly structured good. Of course, I have not
> looked at the code since I got it working for me. Maybe newer code is
> better.
> 
I often think that people are honing programming skills with open source. I have lost count of the number of projects that reorganize the code into a modular format (i.e. It's more than three) after being up and running for a while.

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