Last revised: December 26, 1999 Contents -------- General Information ................................................. 1.0 About SquirrelMail ................................................ 1.1 History ........................................................... 1.2 Contact Information ............................................... 1.3 Installation ........................................................ 2.0 Liscensing .......................................................... 3.0 FAQ ................................................................. 4.0 Can SquirrelMail run with PHP3? ................................... 4.1 Why PHP4 when it's only in BETA? .................................. 4.2 Where did you get the name "SquirrelMail?" ........................ 4.3 -- Section 1.0 -- General Information ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.1 - About SquirrelMail So what exactly is SquirrelMail? It's a web interface to email that's written in PHP4. It was designed to allow email access through your server from anywhere in the world via the Web. 1.2 - History The need arose in our organization for the access of email and address books from anywhere in the world. Obviously a web interface is ideal for this, given that the user has access to the Internet. After reviewing several open source projects we realized that we were going to need to do some fairly major customizations to get things to be a nice fit for our needs. So the decision was made to create our own for some of these reasons, and for fun (we really like PHP4). We decided to open source the project to contribute to the community that has contributed so much to us. 1.3 - Contact Information If you need to contact the developers of SquirrelMail for some reason, please email the mailing list. Bug reports and ideas should be sent to the mailing list also. Mailing List: squirrelmail-list@sourceforge.net If for some reason, you need to contact us directly, you can also email us at: Luke Ehresman: luke@usa.om.org Nathan Ehresman: nathan@usa.om.org Web Page: squirrelmail.sourceforge.net -- Section 2.0 -- Installation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Please view the INSTALL document that was included in this package. -- Section 3.0 -- Liscensing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This product is distributed under the GPL liscense. Please read COPYING for more information. -- Section 4.0 -- Frequently Asked Questions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: Can SquirrelMail be run with PHP3? Yes, and No. It is fully developed under PHP4 BETA3, however PHP is pretty good about backwards compatability. Theoretically, it shouldn't be too hard to port it to PHP3, but you definately would have to do some code tweaking. Let us know of any success or horror stories if you attempt it. Q: Why PHP4 when it's only in BETA? PHP4 is significantly faster than PHP3. When we were viewing mailboxes with 500-1000 messages in them, it would take about 15-30 seconds to sort them. With PHP4, that time has been cut down to 5-10 seconds for large boxes. Q: Where did you get the name, "SquirrelMail"? It's derived from the over-abundant squirrel population in Georgia this year. We were playing volleyball one day, and saw a squirrel try to jump between trees. He failed miserably and fell 40 feet to the ground. So, we had squirrels on our mind the next day when we were coming up with a name.