>>> The advantage of using Fetchemail and the Mail Fetchmail plugin are >>> higher speed and using less server resources, aka. better perfomance, >>> compared to the Mail Fetch plugin. The Mail Fetch plugin should only be >>> used as a last resort when you have no control over the server itself, >>> for instance at a webhotel. >> >> Boy, it would be helpful if that were documented somewhere. I'm sure that >> most people use the Mail Fetch plugin because it is packaged with core. >> There's nothing in its files or on the Plugins site to tell us that we >> should install Mail Fetchmail instead. > > Fetchmail is pure C, while any SquirrelMail plugin is PHP... I thought that this was in "plugins/mail_fetch/README" already, but I just looked and it wasn't. (For filtering it is documented in "plugins/filters/README".) I guess I'll have to update the documentation. >> P.S. What is a webhotel? > > I guess something called "webspace", where you have only a very limited > environment and cannot install/run the programs of your choice. I think the English term is "web hosting service". "Webhotel" is the expression used in the Scandinavian countries. Sincerely, Fredrik ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
