[cobalt-users] Webmail on RaQ4: Looking at 4 packages.

["timbolt Last Name" <timbolt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,

I just sent my request for help with Horde & IMP, but figured I would take the opportunrity to report on the other Webmail programmes I was looking at for a Cobalt RaQ4.

THIS IS ONLY MY ATTEMPTS AND THESE ISSUES MAY BE EASILY OVERCOME BY OTHERS HERE!  Ideally others who have successfully installed these packages would balance my experience and give pointers for those searching the archives in the future.

Summary,so far:

1)  NOCC mail looks good, but does not seem to work with the RaQs as there is apparently a fault with our PHP4.0.3 or such causing intermittent error messages.  According to my correspondance with the author, this is to do with the RedHat bundled PHP.  As I did not want to play around upgrading PHP or do anything risky, this was out.

2)  Aeromail.  Extremely easy to set-up, and can be entirely done as a user.  Nice, but rather basic.  Works no problems.  
Only issue:
To use have Aeromail recognise the correct domain for any user, requires the "/etc/mail/genericstable" file which does not appear on my server, only a /etc/mail/virtualstable file. These contain the same info, formatted differently and are apparently a function of sendmaill configuration.
Because of the above, I would say this is ideal for a virtual domain to set-up for itself without having to bother the admin.  
I was on the sendmail site (http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html), but did not have enough background to ?risk? trying to reconfigure sendmail to generate the genericstable file.
Would like this if I could do the genericstable bit.

3)  SquirrelMail seems the more advanced that the previous two, but they do not have support for Virtual Hosting (http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/VirtualHosts).  This is meant to be in the next major release.  You can set it up under each domain and put it in for that domain, but that seems a bit of as hassel.

4) IMP from Horde.
Still working on it and hoping to get help from this list :-)
While, seeming a bit overkill perhaps, it does seem to be quite a package!

Thanks,
Tim



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