Webmail survey says...

[Matt Kaminer]

You do not need MySQL to run SquirrelMail.  Only if you want to support
back end databases.  We have 30 users and have do not run MySQL.


Todd Martin said:
> Thanks for all the great (and surprisingly plentiful) responses.
> Julian and others asked for a summary report back to the list -- I
> guess the question wasn't as OT as I thought...
>
> Here's the packages people mentioned using in no particular order:
> SquirrelMail http://www.squirrelmail.org
> IMP http://imp.horde.org
> IMHO (IMap HOst) http://www.lysator.liu.se/~stewa/IMHO/dev.html
> WebMail http://www.netwinsite.com (not open source)
> TWIG http://twig.screwdriver.net
> Openwebmail http://www.openwebmail.org/
> Joydesk <http://www.virtualtek.com>www.virtualtek.com
> Neomail http://neomail.sourceforge.net/
> sqwebmail http://www.inter7.com/sqwebmail/
> nullwebmail http://nullwebmail.sourceforge.net/
>
> For you Qmailers...there is a list of webmail packages on
> http://qmail.org/top.html. AFAIK Qmail will work with most (any?)
> IMAP/POP webmail too.
>
> SquirrelMail and IMP got the highest raves by far. IMP is generally
> acknowledged to have many requirements (I'll say -- just take a look at
> the FreeBSD ports dependency list for this package!).
>
> Matt Laney suggests SquirrelMail is good for small number of users
> (~500) and SqWebMail can handle "large undertakings". He also points
> out SqWebMail only supports maildirs (qmail, postfix,
> maildrop/courier).
>
> S Mohan has tried several and has his own (very helpful) summary. I
> hope he will forgive me for quoting him in full here:
>
> I've looked at - meaning installed and played around the following. 1.
> Popper.
> 2. Postaci.
> 3. SquirrelMail.
> 4. WWW Mail.
> 5. Jwebmail.
> 6. Horde/IMP.
> 7. atdot.
> 8. Openwebmail.
> 9. Neomail.
>
> I started with atdot, moved on to wwwmail initially. By then I had got
> used to web based email and then started doing a detailed search. My
> feedback is as follows:
>
> Popper has a Outlook97 like interface and runs on PHP/MySQL. Postaci
> also requires MySQL. WWWMail/atdot/Openwebmail runs on perl and
> standard flat files. SquirrelMail runs on PHP/MySQL.
>
> My criteria were the following:
> 1. Ease of standard install.
> 2. Folder support, personalisation support, multiple bag
> aggregation/popping, mail routing rules, inline attachment handling.
>
> I tried to avoid MySQL as I wanted my users to use webmail as well as
> pop their mailbags. I also found perl was faster than PHP. My pick of
> the lot was SquirrelMail and Openwebmail ( An tremendous improvement
> over Neomail). I chose Openwebmail as it did not require MySQL, was
> fast and in specific terms handled inline attachments the best. It also
> has passowrd change from within and thus obviated the need for me to
> set up a separate web page for password change.
>
> Good features:
> 1. Vacation/ Autoreply.
> 2. Icons/ styles.
> 3. Customised signatures etc.
> 4. Login history.
> 5. Filtering based on rules, faked smtp, javascript disabling.
> 6. Ability to turn on and off features globally.
> 7. Active mailing list, Good Support from T Chung - website maintainer.
> 8. SMTP, Sender blocking per user etc.
>
> Openwebmail is tied down to sendmail and uses sendmail features to
> implement a few things while SquirrelMail will work with both.
>
> There were a lot more but I did a feature scan, screenshot survey
> before I looked at the packages above.
>
> To echo S Mohan: "HTH" -- I know it did for me.
>
> ~Todd