-SquirrelMail version 0.1
-December 14, 1999
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+SquirrelMail
+http://www.squirrelmail.org
-For information on installing, see INSTALL
+Introduction:
+-------------
+SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP4. It includes
+built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages render
+in pure HTML 4.0 (with no Javascript) for maximum compatibility across
+browsers. It has very few requirements and is very easy to configure and
+install. SquirrelMail has a all the functionality you would want from an email
+client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation.
-SquirrelMail's goal is to be an easy-to-configure web-based email
-client. For more information about SquirrelMail, please visit our
-web site: http://squirrelmail.sourceforge.net
+Why did you guys create SquirrelMail? 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. Since then, it has grown much bigger than we ever
+imagined, and we have an awesome development team who are actively working
+on the project.
-If you have questions, please direct them to the mailing list
-specified on the web site. Please do not email us directly unless
-absolutely necessary.
+We would love to hear from you! The nature of open source projects make it
+hard to know who all is using your product. It is always nice when we get
+emails from people just telling us that they're using SquirrelMail. If you
+have a few minutes, please send us an email to let us know! You can send
+it to our mailing list: squirrelmail-list@sourceforge.net
-This product is copyrighted under the GPL liscense. Please read
-COPYING for more information.
+You can also go to the page below and fill out a small form to get listed
+with the list of people already using SquirrelMail.
-Thanks,
-Luke and Nathan
+ http://www.squirrelmail.org/index.php3?page=16
+
+Contact:
+--------
+It is pretty easy to get in contact with the developers if you need help or
+if you find bugs that need to be reported. The best way to contact us would
+be through our mailing list which is actively monitored. Just send an
+email to:
+
+ squirrelmail-list@sourceforge.net
+
+If you wish to actually subscribe to our mailing list, please visit our web
+page for instructions (http://www.squirrelmail.org) and go to the section
+titled "Mailing List".
+
+Installation:
+-------------
+ For detailed instructions on how to install SquirrelMail on your server,
+ please refer to the INSTALL document in the same directory as this document.
+
+Licensing:
+----------
+ This product is distributed under the GPL. Please read through the file
+ COPYING for more information about our license.
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