[imp] What is JAWmail? How ot related to IMP?

[Ibarra, Michael]

This looks like a TOTAL ripoff of Horde/Imp to me. I've visited
the website and I did not even see any mention whatsoever to
Horde, not even a thank you!  If you change the "theme" or
skin/whatever, isn't it still technically Horde? Why don't you
just start a "skins" frontend, or add a plug-in, or just rewrite
your own app altogether? Nonetheless, it seems like a far
distant cousin to what the Horde Team has done lately, Good
luck.

my two ethical cents...

-mike 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rudi Benkovic [mailto:rudib@email.si]
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 5:07 AM
To: imp@lists.horde.org
Subject: Re: [imp] What is JAWmail? How ot related to IMP?


[I wrote JAWmail]

On Wednesday, August 7, 2002, 1:14:08 AM, Mike Cochrane wrote:

> Quoting Georgy Goshin <gosha@inbox.ee>:

>> Hi,
>> 
>> I saw some product, called JAWMail, it looks like the IMP but works with
>> UTF-8 
>> that makes it very interesting, but IMP is much more stable.
>>
>> JAWmail looks like the IMP, do they use IMP code or just IMP design?

> Just IMP design... source code is total different from the bits i
> took a look at.. they may have borrowed some templates from IMP
> though, just from looking at it.

Yes, it looks like IMP&Horde and some code (particulary MIME) is
borrowed, tweaked (MIME for UTF-8) and some other things are
completely different (like the ACL system, themes) and some things are
unique (plugins). It's under GPL, don't go nuts :)

It is primarily being written for fun, for some little non-commercial
projects and to learn about PHP and Web development.

Some guys might say why don't I instead patch Horde and IMP to do some
things the way I want it to? Well, I already hacked a lot of IMP 2.2
and I didn't like that - I wanted plugins for custom things back then
in ... '98, I think (like user registration, showing mail quota, FAQs,
banners,...) and I had to port our hacks from IMP 2.2.something to
2.2.something+more ... Really didn't like the process.

So, I wanted something "new", done by myself, started having some
fun... Here it is now, public, GPLed. Just Another Web mail. There's
too much already. :)

Hint, hint: Just as I borrowed MIME and Registry ideas, you guys
should borrow plugin ideas ... ;) Code's there, quite OO ...

-- 

Rudi


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