[imp] IMP and mobile browsers..

Liam Hoekenga liamr at umich.edu
Fri Jun 13 20:19:57 UTC 2008


We don't use the horde provided login screen (for horde or imp).. so we 
rely on their default mechanism... which says "mobile users get MIMP"

Liam

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Eric A. Bonney wrote:

> I thought I saw an option in Horde maybe that allowed you to have a
> drop down box at the login screen. This would allow the user to select
> any of the modules you have install (mimp, imp or dimp).
>
> I can't remember off the top of my head where this is, but I know it
> is there because this is how I have my configuration set currently.
>
> -Eric
>
> Quoting Liam Hoekenga <liamr at umich.edu>:
>
>> So.. I touched on this a few weeks ago.  With our upgrade from Horde
>> 3.0.x/ IMP 4.0.x to Horde 3.2 / IMP 4.2, our mobile users lost their
>> ability to access their mail (we didn't install MIMP).  I could see
>> making MIMP available to things like my 3yo nokia handset, but the
>> people who are complaining are using smart devices that probably
>> wouldn't be happy with MIMP (iPhone, Treo, Blackberry, Windows Mobile,
>> etc) - devices with fully featured browsers.
>>
>> (MIMP on the iPhone is not a good match... tho, personally, I don't
>> enjoy using IMP on a  2" display either.)
>>
>> I think it's still valid to have smartphones marked as mobile browsers
>> in the browser library.
>>
>> If we wanted to let these users access IMP (instead of MIMP), what
>> change(s) would you suggest making?
>>
>> Liam
>>
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