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
   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@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:
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  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@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:
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  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:
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  56 This product is distributed under the GPL.  Please read through the file
  57 COPYING for more information about our license.