[NMLUG] squirrelmail features

[mpchlets at infotechmegacorp.com (michael)]

I may want to look into this. 
squirrel is pretty slow on my P-II/400. 
>I'm not sure why... since the CPU doesn't show much load 
>(with top while I'm reading mail) 
>Some pages take 20-30 seconds to load/update. 
>
>What I do like about squirrel is that it uses fairly vanilla 
>folders. ?I can easily move things about with procmail, 
>and already wrote scripts to automagically train/update 
>SA Bayes. 
>
>I also like the way squirrel handles identities. 
>This mail was sent with a new identity, just for NMLUG, 
>so the admin doesn't have to deal with my mail as 
>"out of list" when I use a different e-mail address. 
>
>Will there be any advantage for me to switch? 
>(faster index display would be worth it...) 
>-- 
>Aaron Birenboim ? ? ? ?| I have an inferiority complex 
>Albuquerque, NM ? ? ? ?| ? ... but its not a very 
>aaron_at_birenboim.com | ? ? ? good one. 
>http://aaron.boim.com | 


Well, openwebmail is fast, my mailboxes sometimes become as large as 350MB.  And I have over 15 
mailboxes, so that is quite large.  OpenWebmail does a fairly fast search on them and load, but I use 
it on my server and access it remotely, if you are talking about hosting it locally, it should fly.

If I understand what you mean about identities, you can have multiple identities, if you want to check 
out openwebmail, drop me an email and I can setup a user account for you to walk through.  Yes it 
does have lots of features, but you can turn any off.  I like it cause it is a mail program, an ftp 
program, and an ssh program all in one.  Oh it also has a calendar and addressbook.  The folders are 
as you say "vanilla", it works of your home directory and such.  

And spamassassin along with procmail is very customizable.  Spamassassin uses bayesian learning 
and you can set up an auto-whitelist and the like.  

michael