[PLUG] WebMail Package

[David Mandel]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Patrick Leckey wrote:

...
>
> I noticed somebody reccommended neomail.  I tried "openmail", which is based on neomail.  Unfortunately, it has to run
> setuid root, and as my machine is a little 120MHz box, the setuid gets caught in the race condition and just gives me a
> "Can't do setuid".
> ...

We use neomail as part of the Netule EM-I email server.
We selected it after testing a number of alternatives.

For the most part we are quite happy with neomail.
It is simple and easy to use and generally works well.
We set it up be accessed via ssl which is nice.
However,
    (1)  We wish it had a spell checker built-in.
    (2)  We wish it had a system to build procmail or
         other SPAM control rules.
    (3)  We wish it had a few more features, but for
         our purposes nothing real important is missing.
    (4)  It hasn't handle super huge posting well.
         Neomail will try to put a 100+ mb posting in
         RAM, which can lead to bad things - like frozen
         systems.  Fortunately, this rarely happens in
         practice and one can prevent this by banning
         super huge postings in sendmail or postfix or
         whereever.
Overall, we like neomail but may consider alternatives
in the future.

                                          Sincerely,
                                          David Mandel
                                          Chief Activist
                                          Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                          1440 NE 59th
                                          Portland, Oregon 97213
                                          (360) 260-2066 at work
                                          (541) 730-5285 cell

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