Author: Bruce Richardson Date: To: Exim Users Subject: Re: [Exim] Advice - Building mail platform from scratch
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:01:14AM -0400, Dickenson, Steven wrote: > As far as your other choices go, I thought the IMP/Horde project was in a
> state of abandonment?
I don't think so. They had an official release of a new version just a
couple of months back.
> I much prefer Squirrelmail.
We use SquirrelMail and I have to say that I'm regretting the choice.
It's user interface is nicer (for the most part) and not reliant on
Javascript (unlike IMP, which is entirely dependent on it). OTOH, the
code quality is terrible in many places so that extending it for
anything other than the simplest things is no fun at all. Some of these
problems are down to PHP itself (crappy, unfinished language with no
namespaces, so that each plugin pollutes the global namespace with
variables, and absolutely terrible prformance if you use objects), which
really isn't a good language for large, extensible applications. Horde
manages by imposing very good developer discipline and adding a host of
libraries to supplement the defincies of the language.
