{"id":367,"date":"2004-03-03T01:41:16","date_gmt":"2004-03-03T06:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/03\/03\/where-are-the-perl-webmail-clients\/"},"modified":"2004-03-03T01:41:16","modified_gmt":"2004-03-03T06:41:16","slug":"where-are-the-perl-webmail-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/03\/03\/where-are-the-perl-webmail-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are the Perl webmail clients?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a322'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rant mode on.<\/p>\n<p>If Perl is so great for programming web applications.&nbsp;&nbsp; Where<br \/>\nare the high profile Open Source Webmail projects using Perl?<\/p>\n<p>I just spent a good couple of hours looking and found a few written<br \/>\nin Perl but almost all of them fall under the following categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Payware (ex. <a href=\"http:\/\/webbasedemail.com\/\">@Mail<\/a> )\n  <\/li>\n<li>Haven&#8217;t been maintained in over a year and looked more like someone&#8217;s pet project (ex. <a href=\"http:\/\/neomail.sourceforge.net\/\">NeoMail<\/a> )\n<\/li>\n<li>Unclear how it handles multilingual email (NeoMail)\n<\/li>\n<li>Doesn&#8217;t integrate well with mod_perl (OpenMail)\n<\/li>\n<li>Handles POP3 and that&#8217;s it or some variant. ( <a href=\"http:\/\/software.jaos.org\/\">Perl WebMail<\/a> )\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What is up with this?&nbsp; If you do a search on webmail client and<br \/>\nOpen Source you&#8217;ll find at least 3 or 4 GOOD webmail clients written in<br \/>\nPHP.&nbsp; Most of what I see for Perl is a bunch of libraries and then<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s Bricolage which is huge and completely non useful as a webmail<br \/>\nclient.&nbsp; When it comes to a webmail client I see that some of the<br \/>\nbetter PHP systems (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.squirremail.org\">SquirrelMail<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horde.org\/imp\/\">Horde<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ilohamail.org\/\">IlohaMail<\/a>) have the following qualities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Handling of IMAP and POP3<\/li>\n<li>Handles Maildir and mbox<\/li>\n<li>HAVE dealt with the multi-lingual issue<\/li>\n<li>The interfaces look more polished than &#8216;I just hacked it together maybe it works&#8217;\n  <\/li>\n<li>Are being actively maintained\n  <\/li>\n<li>Are free\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When it comes to webmail with Perl it seems like There&#8217;s No Good<br \/>\nWay To<br \/>\nDo It.&nbsp; If Perl is the a major deity when it comes to string<br \/>\nprocessing and working with the web where the hell are the<br \/>\ncompeting implementations for one of the more popular apps on the<br \/>\nInternet?&nbsp;&nbsp; After looking at the Perl offerings the closest<br \/>\nthat comes to what I want is Perl WebMail.&nbsp; But it might just be<br \/>\neasier to turn on PHP and install a more actively maintained system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rant mode on. If Perl is so great for programming web applications.&nbsp;&nbsp; Where are the high profile Open Source Webmail projects using Perl? I just spent a good couple of hours looking and found a few written in Perl but almost all of them fall under the following categories: Payware (ex. @Mail ) Haven&#8217;t been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}