Hi

What kind of web mail interface would you like for hMailServer ?

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Steen

why a new web mail interface at all????
squirrelMail works just fine.

Hi

You are right, squirrelmail works, no doubt about that, but...

The look and feel is not up to date
It's hard to integrate into existing sites

As you could see, I alsom suggest to "hack" squirrelmail

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Steen

Before running off and hammering out new webmails, what webmails have ppl tried? What works and what doesn't?

Personally I've used Squirrel on Linux for serveral years. Yes it does look dated, but I've never had problems with it. But then again eyecandy "sells". Anyone who's used Bill's Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2003 will be hard to convince to use Squirrel...

Recently I've had a go at putting together alternative mail solutions for Windoze. I've installed and tried several mail/webmail solutions and most webmails have problems handling odd message formats. Multi-part messages, multi-byte charactersets etc, are not that simple to do well.

One alternative I've bumped into is egroupware which looks very promising and not just as a webmail (it has 2 webmails and one is a Squirrel hack...).

But if it's going to be a light-weight, integratable webmail solution, how about NOCC?

Hi

You are absolute right, it’s not easy to create a new web mail client.

I have also tried several web mail clients, some better than others, SquirrelMail works almost out of the box AFIK, but lake integration, look and feel. I have tried to contact the SquirrelMail developers list, but so far mails just bounces from the list, and the list owner does not answer ;-(

NOCC, can't handle complex messages.

OWA... well, it's VERY nice I use it every day to read my microsoft.com mails

The reason that I would like a new web mail is to have one the works perfect together with hMailServer, and by that supporting hMailServer as I think it's THE best open source mail server for windows, and I don't like MS Exchange

The last 2 days I have been playing with the IMAP extension for PHP, and created a few classes, and I’m able to browse/edit/create mailboxes/folders show messages headers and simple messages

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Steen

I hate OWA, my comany uses it and it is terrible. Someone posted a Squirrelmail hack on this page and the defulat install is fantastic. Of course you have to use apache instead of IIS, but with a few tweaks it will probably work with IIS too.

I don't think the interface is anymore dated then yahoomail or MSN for that matter. I would like to see a native ASP version though, just for ease of use.

one alternative also is to run squirellmail on different server.

Why didn't anyone mention AfterLogic WebMail? They seem to be nice. I would want to know if there are any automation tools to have hMail server create a Webmail accounts?

I agree. It looks ancient.

I am just testing it. Looks very modern and elegant. Installation is very easy on Windows and Linux as well - only thing is to create Mysql account/ base and PHP 5.1 up on server side.

More here: viewtopic.php?f=20&t=17511

Except I can't get squirrelMail to RUN on my IIS Server 2008 R2 server

squirrelMail is UGLY. am I wrong?

Yes, you are. "ugly" is personal opinion and not something that can be agreed by anybody.

SquirrelMail is not ugly. Interface is simple and does not match your personal taste. If you don't like SquirrelMail, you can always use other webmail or write your own.

I've made my webmail choice more than ten years ago and I never regret it.

If AfterLogic WebMail is nice, then maybe they can fix copyrights on their PHP webmail scripts. GPL does not permit removal of copyrights.


Have you tried asking for help on SquirrelMail mailing list or IRC instead of complaining about it on unrelated third party forum?

Thanks for your post. Yes. It's totally my personal opinion. I do like easy and simple things. For example current hotmail is too much too, but for some people it's beautiful. I do like gmail's interface. some people will say it's ugly. so, yes, you are right.

You do realise that this thread was started some five and a half years ago...

Absolutely, but the problem is still current.
Thanks.

Errr what problem?

Well Absence of native webmail i guess...

You will be waiting for a very long time if you want native webmail. there are loads of webmail apps out there to choose from.

Yes, I know. They all work via IMAP. But I'd love to have the one that will be able to configure 100% of settings of hmailserver.

100% of server settings is not something that email client should be able to do.

Some webmails are modular and you can write extensions that add needed controls.

I think scripts that create accounts are available in Scripts section. If you want to ask question or advertise some webmail, you should not use unrelated 6 year old thread. Start new topic or use search and find related topic.

Thanks for your reply. I have no interest to advertise any webmail. I don't see any good ones and via search (as you suggested) found this thread.
If you don't want anyone to post here, you can lock it. Otherwise I post relevant questions here.