[Dovecot] IMAP and webmail applications

[Tom Allison]

Dan Wang wrote:
> i thought squirrelmail would be way too much of an overkill for my needs
> also but i went for it.  i'm using debian and i got the squirrelmail
> package installed and working within 15 minutes.  what really makes life
> easy is that squirrelmail comes with a configuration utility
> (squirrelmail-configure).  it was very easy to get things configured
> without worry about a lot of conf files :)  i also like the many plugins
> that people have created for squirrelmail.  it's also very simple to add
> these plugins into squirrelmail using squirrelmail-configure.
> 
> i had originally been ssh and mutt to check my mail, but i decided it be
> nice to have a web front-end and squirrelmail /apache /dovecot /procmail
> /spamassassin /gotmail /getmail /fetchyahoo have been a good mix for me.
> 
> the hardest part for me was figuring out procmail and not squirrelmail :)
> 

squirrelmails nice.  I'm not going to knock it.  In fact, I consider it 
right to be an example of what to follow.

But my interests are to write something for compatability with mod_perl 
and HTML::Mason so give me a system that will be much faster than 
squirrelmail and easier to include in web sites.  (HTML::Mason would 
allow you to write the entire webmail application as an object to 
include in a page...)  The advantage of HTML::Mason over PHP is that 
it's very easy to cache pages in addition to the advantages of mod_perl 
over PHP (unless you use Zope?).