[Gllug] recommendations for webmail software?

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 10:48:31AM +0800, Richard Cohen wrote:
> 
> And to resurrect this thread...
> 
> I'm setting up a new server, and since it's going to be hosting my
> mum's and sister's mail, it needs webmail...
> 
> However, based on previous experience, I've developed a dislike for
> PHP, and particularly for off-the-shelf, public-facing PHP
> applications.  They just have too much of a history of security and
> other problems for me to want to deal with them.  Ideally, I will end
> up not installing PHP on the new machine at all.

Yes: PHP has had exploits, some are badly written PHP code (ie applications)
and others are as a result of PHP having lots of libraries available and so
whenever a library (which is not really much to do with PHP) gets a problem
it is also a PHP problem ... this is rather like M$ saying that Linux
has lots of problems when it is talking about the zillions of apps in a typical
linux distribution .. whereas when you buy XP all that you get is the
operating system, MS IE and notepad.

> So... can anyone suggest a reasonable, end-user-friendly webmail
> system which *isn't* written in PHP?  Perl would be acceptable, Python
> preferable, Ruby, well, who knows...  At the moment, they're using
> Squirrelmail and seem to be pretty satisfied with it.  Since this is
> for a couple of users, on a relatively low-spec virtual machine (at
> bytemark), something which runs under a big stonking application
> server like Zope would also not be particularly useful to me.
> 
> Yes, I'm being bigoted and picky.  So?

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Alain Williams
Parliament Hill Computers Ltd.
Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.
+44 (0) 787 668 0256  http://www.phcomp.co.uk/

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