webmail

[valjean]

I am personally sick and tired of Qbik's inability to develop a webmail feature for wingate.

MDaemon has this feature since the days of Wingate 3 and it is very very simple to install. I got Mdaemon and its webmail feature to work after 1 install and in less than 1hour.

We are all here using wingate because it is easy to install and manage. If someone from Qbik will tell me to use some free Squirrelmail or Horde webmail app, I am really going to freak out. I chose wingate because I want the ease of use feature. Then Qbik is going to ask me to read/learn how to use PHP, Apache, IMAP etc. just so I can use webmail.

Qbik/Wingate please grow up. If you can't develop a simple webmail, the least you can do is make a customized Squirrelmail installer which wingate users can quickly install into their systems.

If other users of wingate share my frustration, please feel free to share your opinion.

[valjean]

[genie]

Wingate supports IMAP and as such any freely availably IMAP-enabled Webmail packages will be able to utilize it - such as http://www.squirrelmail.org/

[SkyMan]

Now that genie has caused valjean to freak out, I must say that I concur!

Yes, Qbik, you should immediately start wasting incredible amounts of time and resources by creating a webmail feature just like those already freely available elsewhere.

Please be sure to abandon your core competencies and chase after things proven to be of limited value to you or the users.

Oh, yes. And while you're at it, could you also re-invent the wheel?

This effort will obviously improve valjean's health and help him sleep better too!

Grow up Qbik! Overcome your inabilities! Free your mind! You have nothing to fear but fear itself!

Gosh, I feel better now.

[adrien]

Hi

It isn't inability to do so that prevents us from developing a webmail product. In fact it was the development efforts on our webmail product that caused us to write the IMAP server instead.

Granted IMAP isn't the ultimate mail solution, but we didn't see the point in re-writing a webmail system when there were free ones available.

Setting up PHP with WinGate is really easy, but I agree an installer for SquirrelMail would be handy - actually I thought there already was a windows installer for it. Horde is even more difficult to get working since it requires installation of a number of PHP libraries.

I think there are also several commercial PHP-based IMAP web front-ends though.

We didn't see much point in re-inventing the wheel in that area once we had IMAP going. Also, WinGate is not primarily a mail server, although it has a lot of email functionality - it is still primarily a gateway management system. WinGate 3 didn't even have a mail server, that was only introduced in WinGate 5. A webmail system also requires a full web server, and winGate is more a web proxy than a server although it does currently support web serving with authentication, SSL connections and CGI, it's not multi-hosting. THat comes with the next version along with reverse proxying.

Adrien