| 1 | SquirrelMail |
| 2 | http://www.squirrelmail.org |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Introduction: |
| 5 | ------------- |
| 6 | SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP4. It |
| 7 | includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all |
| 8 | pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no Javascript) for maximum compatibility |
| 9 | across browsers. It has very few requirements and is very easy to configure |
| 10 | and install. SquirrelMail has all the functionality you would want from an |
| 11 | email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder |
| 12 | manipulation. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Why did you guys create SquirrelMail? The need arose in our organization |
| 15 | for the access of email and address books from anywhere in the world. |
| 16 | Obviously a web interface is ideal for this, given that the user has access |
| 17 | to the Internet. After reviewing several open source projects, we realized |
| 18 | that we were going to need to do some fairly major customizations to get |
| 19 | things to be a nice fit for our needs. So the decision was made to create |
| 20 | our own for some of these reasons, and for fun (we really like PHP4). We |
| 21 | decided to open source the project to contribute to the community that has |
| 22 | contributed so much to us. Since then, it has grown much bigger than we |
| 23 | ever imagined, and we have an awesome development team who are actively |
| 24 | working on the project. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | We would love to hear from you! The nature of open source projects make it |
| 27 | hard to know who all is using your product. It is always nice when we get |
| 28 | emails from people just telling us that they're using SquirrelMail. If you |
| 29 | have a few minutes, please send us an email to let us know! You can send it |
| 30 | to our mailing list: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net |
| 31 | |
| 32 | You can also go to the page below and fill out a small form to get listed |
| 33 | with the list of people already using SquirrelMail (free advertising). |
| 34 | |
| 35 | http://www.squirrelmail.org/feedback.php |
| 36 | |
| 37 | Contact: |
| 38 | -------- |
| 39 | It is pretty easy to get in contact with the developers if you need help or |
| 40 | if you find bugs that need to be reported. The best way to contact us would |
| 41 | be through our mailing list which is actively monitored. |
| 42 | |
| 43 | squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net |
| 44 | |
| 45 | NOTE: you need to be subscribed to this mailinglist to be able to post to it! |
| 46 | Please visit our web page (http://www.squirrelmail.org) and go to the section |
| 47 | titled "Mailing Lists". |
| 48 | |
| 49 | Installation: |
| 50 | ------------- |
| 51 | For detailed instructions on how to install SquirrelMail on your server, |
| 52 | please refer to the INSTALL document in the same directory as this document. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | Licensing: |
| 55 | ---------- |
| 56 | This product is distributed under the GPL. Please read through the file |
| 57 | COPYING for more information about our license. |