README

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