Webmail / IMAPS software for end-user clients in 2016

Thu Jun 9 02:18:23 UTC 2016

hi yta

On 06/08/16 at 06:43pm, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
> openwebmail hasn't been updated since 2006...

yup.. a minor/major issue

> squirrelmail is ancient and barely maintained.

last update ( svn ) was Jun 09, 2016 ( today )
http://squirrelmail.org/download.php

if you like the "latest/greatest" sw ... debian is not always the 
best choice, as their *.deb packages are sometimes too old for the
binaries it's packaging compared to the author's stable releases
( latest stable packages want in the distro:
( kernel, apache, sendmail, postfix, sql, php, perl, dovecot, etc

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barely maintained etc is not necessarily bad ...
- sometimes, you want stable software that doesn't change every day
or every week

- presumably, "more stable" sw will not have as many bugs that
requires releasing yet another version

- sometimes, time-tested (stable) software, used by thousands of users 
with thousands of different OS/mta/browsers is a a good thing ..

- optionally, to use the latest dev released from yesterday/last week
is equally good, esp for bug fixes and security patches

> Antivirus and antispam are handled by the SMTP system which operates on the
> backend of the webmail, by the time incoming mail gets to dovecot imap
> storage for the user accounts it has already been processed.

okay ... virus and spam can be stopped at many different places 
or even outsourced .. it's not just the MTA's job to do filter it

> Antivirus/antispam handled similarly on other servers for outgoing SMTP
> traffic.

good if you're stopping outgoing virus/spam... :-) don't forget
the incoming virii/wormns too

have fun
alvin