[imp] Who is using SilkyMail?

[lps@buffalo.edu]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:59:24PM -0500, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> Quoting lps@buffalo.edu:
> 
> > In our initial analysis our final three webmail candidates were NetWin WebMail
> > (WebIMAP), IMP, and SilkyMail.  They all seemed like good choices but after
> > some hemming and hawing we finally went with SilkyMail because -
> 
> Fair enough. However:
> 
> > 5.  Based on IMP which is a pretty mature product (even though right now
> >     SilkyMail doesn't use the latest version) with lots of mailing list
> >     activity/support - which means indirect support for SilkyMail.
> 
> No one here - including me - is going to be able to help you where SilkyMail 
> differs from IMP. SilkyMail is _very_ different from the latest development 
> Horde/IMP code; I don't know of any plans that they have to move to a product 
> based on the IMP 2.3 codebase, which is a much better engineered piece of code 
> than the pre-2.2 version that SilkyMail was based on.

So noted.  As for SilkyMail's future, according to Cyrus, the next release of
SilkyMail will be in a couple of months and the major changes will be 

* a move to php4
* imap-ssl support

* He didn't say anything about going to a later version of imp.

-Larry