Webmail Evaluation - Spring 2000 - Meetings

March 10, 2000 - Agenda

• Introduction of team members
• Set up regular meeting time and expectation of team membership
• Mail archive
• How does the software work?
• Discuss evaluation criteria and requirements
  Evaluation criteria for Electronic Mail Task Force IMAP Client Evaluation Project
• Discuss possible candidates
• Test scripting
  Test script for Email Task Force - 1994
  Test script for new features in Messenger 4.61a

Notes

Wednesdays, 10-11:30am

Expectations

We evaluate as many products as seems reasonable based on needs we determine, ultimately we make a recommendation to be presented to SUG and the IT Roundtable. Team members will be expected to spend 1.5 hours meeting and an additional 2 hours per week working for the task force.

Mail Archive

• PAS ID required
• Group members only
• PAS ID assumed to be your e-mail ID unless you notify Peggy otherwise.

How do these products work

A nice explanation from Andrew Diller. A diagram forthcoming.

Requirements

• Run on current desktop standards (low-end, probably v4 browsers)
• Support Internet standards: SMTP, IMAP, as requirements, LDAP, POP3 as optional
• Provide remote access to users' inbox (optionally other mailboxes) on existing mail servers on campus
• Support for attachments
• Interoperability with ELM mailbox structure
• Password encryption should be possible in some configurations but not required

We discussed a number of other items and ultimately decided that we will review some of the older functionality requirements documents (from previous task forces), add to this list and build a matrix on which to track whether the functionality is absolute requirement or optional. Group members should watch for more from Peggy on this.

Homework

• Review old requirements lists (to come from Peggy)
• Come prepared to discuss the products available with the goal of developing an initial list of candidates to consider.

Products to Evaluate

Product	web site	POP3	IMAP4
AnyEmail	http://netbula.com/anyemail
EMU 3	http://emumail.com
GLWebMail	http://www.gordano.com/Products/GLWebMail/
IMHO	http://www.lysator.liu.se/~stewa/IMHO	N	Y
IMP	http://www.horde.org	N	Y
OCSemail	http://demo.obsidian.co.za
SINE
Twig	http://twig.screwdriver.net
WebEdge	http://www.software.com/products/webedge	Y	Y
WorldPilot	http://demo.worldpilot.com:8080/site
FocalMail	http://www.focalmail.com/home/index.html
Acemail	http://www.astray.com/acmemail/
mailman	http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/
atdot	http://www.atdot.org/