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Ilohamail does see http://blog.ilohamail.org/

It is a really fast implementation of webmail, works well on my large accounts.

-MS2K

Er... Its real simple to setup your own web-based mail access:

1. Go to Ilohamail, and download the latest verison
2. .
3. Uncompress in your webroot
4. Go to http://localhost/ilohamail/ and login.

For what its worth, I will be givng the new Gmail a shot. We'll see how good it is (I expect it to be great) before I start to decide how I feel about the privacy issue.

On the webmail front Ilohamail rocks! Being that it is webmail it of course doesn't have all the features of something like KMail but it has the important ones (or they're in the works). One important one that I know a lot of slashdotters need is spell check.

I still use Outlook at work because everyone else does and I need to share calendars, public folders, etc. but I use Ilohamail everywhere else. With technology like PHP look to see some webmail apps begin to close the gap in functionality.

I must admit that having read a lot of DJBs site for various reasons over time, I have come to the conclusion that I really wouldn't like him if I ever met him. Having said that, I do use DJBDNS rather than bind on my network simply beacuse I had a very short timeframe to get DNS up and running and bind seemed to have too steep a learning curve at the time.

Back on topic, I do use Postfix on my mail server and found it relatively easy to configure and setup. I've also got Ilohamail sitting on top of it for webmail services, which I'd recommend as well.

Bob

I'm getting a $2000 stipend from my university to work on my project this summer. All I had to do was write a proposal. I also entered the project to a student research competition and got $200 in prize money ($200 for a 5 page paper and two 10 minute presentations isn't that bad -would've been $500 if I'd gotten 1st place though). Apart from that, I got a $1000 "donation" to add a new feature, about $200 worth in contract work related to the project, and $40 in user donations. On the other hand, I lost a bunch of money through the cafepress shop (see sig).

But this fall, I'll be transferring to a university that's going to cost me a shi*t load of money, and it's going to be difficult for me to justify spending the usual 15-40 hours/week on the project, without some kind of serious funding (which I doubt I'll find).

I'm getting a $2000 stipend from my university to work on my project this summer. All I had to do was write a proposal. I also entered the project to a student research competition and got $200 in prize money ($200 for a 5 page paper and two 10 minute presentations isn't that bad -would've been $500 if I'd gotten 1st place though). Apart from that, I got a $1000 "donation" to add a new feature, about $200 worth in contract work related to the project, and $40 in user donations. On the other hand, I lost a bunch of money through the cafepress shop (see sig).

But this fall, I'll be transferring to a university that's going to cost me a shi*t load of money, and it's going to be difficult for me to justify spending the usual 15-40 hours/week on the project, without some kind of serious funding (which I doubt I'll find).

One word: webmail.

I've been using my webmail interface as my primary email client for the last 2+ years and haven't looked at stand alone email clients since. My IMAP account has some 80MB worth of email, but even my sent folder with 2300+ messages loads in under 5 seconds from anywhere in the world (although, I should give Courier-IMAP and the Maildir format credit for that). As far as I'm concerned, desktop email clients are slow, inconvinient and obsolete.

Oh, it happens (on this planet too). Phone companies give away cell phones and cell service. Gilette gives away disposable razors and sells replacement blades. Radio stations give away music and sell air time for commercials. It's actually a well known business model. The tough part, at least for me, is to apply the same for my software.

As a college student who has a stomach to fill, rent to pay, and an education to complete, making monetary contributions really isn't an option. Hell, if I had money to spare, I wouldn't be trying to sell thongs (see sig).

I got some excellent end-user feedback for my project when a medium-sized ISP deployed it. My contact in their tech department summarized the kind of calls/requests their support department got, and I implemented (or ignored) some of them in the project.

Personally, I think the biggest problem is that OSS programmers rarely hear from non-technical users. Of course, the other problem is that ordinary non-technical users rarely hear about OpenSource software either...

• Get your geek-girl an Open Source Thong!

Seriously, you didn't, did you?