Early Reminder: Meeting June 7th - Sybase on Linux
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI Everybody, I want to send out this early reminder about our upcoming WLUG meeting. It will be held on Wednesday, June 7th at 7:00 PM in the Access Grid room on the WPI campus in Worcester, MA USA. At this meeting, Patrick Enright from Sybase Inc. will be talking about Sybase on Linux. Patrick was kind enough to send me a bunch of Sybase tee shirts, CDs, posters, etc. which I'll bring to the meeting and give away to the membership. After the meeting, we'll go out and have pizza, soda, and great conversation at the Tech Pizza Restaurant on Highland Street. I look forward to seeing you there! Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEe5ULHl0iXDssISsRAvNFAKCEP2V4pqH+kAPYCUpA6/cDBtTJrwCbB8MZ Lx4RcZ7YT+qb7y9hV75TO1M= =akJX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
I was at the meeting in April or May, but, unfortunately, haven't had time for the list or for meetings since then. At the time, I was looking for help setting up an IMAP server. I eventually got that working with Debian Sarge, Postfix, UW-IMAP, and the howto at: http://howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_debian_sarge I think everything is working now, although I haven't switched my MX record to this server yet, but I'm still lacking a webmail interface. What do you guys like for webmail? Is there any particular reason why you like one package over another? -- Rich
Richard Klein wrote:
What do you guys like for webmail? Is there any particular reason why you like one package over another?
I like squirrelmail. Debian sarge has 1.4.6 in it, iirc, but I like 1.5.1 better. Some nice extra features, mostly just bells & whistles, but I like them. Pretty simple to use and configure, might require an extra bit of apache knowledge if you go with 1.5.1 instead of just 'apt-get install squirrelmail' I'm afraid that I can't really compare it to anything else since I haven't used them. I've heard of at least Imp and OpenWebMail. Scott
Scott Venier wrote:
Richard Klein wrote:
What do you guys like for webmail? Is there any particular reason why you like one package over another?
I like squirrelmail. Debian sarge has 1.4.6 in it, iirc, but I like 1.5.1 better. Some nice extra features, mostly just bells & whistles, but I like them. Pretty simple to use and configure, might require an extra bit of apache knowledge if you go with 1.5.1 instead of just 'apt-get install squirrelmail'
I'm afraid that I can't really compare it to anything else since I haven't used them. I've heard of at least Imp and OpenWebMail.
Scott
Thanks! I'll just take the path of least resistance and install 1.4.6 (or whatever apt-get gets me). So, apt-get install squirrelmail suggests imapproxy. Per imapproxy.org: "imapproxy was written to compensate for webmail clients that are unable to maintain persistent connections to an IMAP server. Most webmail clients need to log in to an IMAP server for nearly every single transaction. This behaviour can cause tragic performance problems on the IMAP server. imapproxy tries to deal with this problem by leaving server connections open for a short time after a webmail client logs out. When the webmail client connects again, imapproxy will determine if there's a cached connection available and reuse it if possible." Have you installed imapproxy? Would I regret it if I skip that package? I'd normally be accessing webmail using Firefox 1.5.x.x or later, IE 6 or later, and possibly (though unlikely) Camino or Safari. -- Rich
Richard Klein wrote:
Have you installed imapproxy? Would I regret it if I skip that package? I'd normally be accessing webmail using Firefox 1.5.x.x or later, IE 6 or later, and possibly (though unlikely) Camino or Safari.
I have not tried imapproxy, but it sounds interesting... I've got 4 users who all use squirrelmail to read their mail. The machine probably sees 700 messages a day, and has no problems. Scott
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