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Re: Webmail / IMAPS software for end-user clients in 2016
From: alvin nanog <nanogml () Mail DDoS-Mitigator net>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 19:18:23 -0700
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 ----- 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
Current thread:
- Webmail / IMAPS software for end-user clients in 2016 Eric Kuhnke (Jun 08)
- Re: Webmail / IMAPS software for end-user clients in 2016 alvin nanog (Jun 08)
- Re: Webmail / IMAPS software for end-user clients in 2016 Eric Kuhnke (Jun 08)
- Re: Webmail / IMAPS software for end-user clients in 2016 alvin nanog (Jun 08)
- Re: Webmail / IMAPS software for end-user clients in 2016 William Herrin (Jun 08)
- Re: Webmail / IMAPS software for end-user clients in 2016 Eric Kuhnke (Jun 08)
- Re: Webmail / IMAPS software for end-user clients in 2016 Gavin Henry (Jun 08)
- Re: Webmail / IMAPS software for end-user clients in 2016 Eric Kuhnke (Jun 08)
- Re: Webmail / IMAPS software for end-user clients in 2016 alvin nanog (Jun 08)
- RE: Webmail / IMAPS software for end-user clients in 2016 Jason Bertoch (Jun 10)
- Re: Webmail / IMAPS software for end-user clients in 2016 Jim Lucas (Jun 12)
- Re: Webmail / IMAPS software for end-user clients in 2016 Greg Sowell (Jun 14)
- Re: Webmail / IMAPS software for end-user clients in 2016 Guillaume Tournat (Jun 14)
- Re: Webmail / IMAPS software for end-user clients in 2016 Adrian M (Jun 15)
- Re: Webmail / IMAPS software for end-user clients in 2016 Greg Sowell (Jun 14)
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- RE: Webmail / IMAPS software for end-user clients in 2016 Coy Hile (Jun 09)