Webmail Evaluation - Spring 2000 - Meetings
March 22, 2000 - Agenda
Minutes
- March 15 minutes: OK
- Finalize list of candidates
- Discuss who can host various candidates for
testing
- Discuss availability of accounts for
testing (across multiple servers?)
- Test scripting
Products still in the running
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EMU3
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Don will call about past vendor
support (went out of business); IMAP on NT is still an
issue
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IMHO
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IMP
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OSCemail
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still waiting on vendor/developer
information on the product (will wait until 3/24, if no
answer, eliminate)
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Twig
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WorldPilot
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Products eliminated
- AnyEmail: no apparent IMAP
support
- GLWebMail: not standards based
- Netscape Messenger Express: only works with
Netscape's server
- SINE: will not be available for evaluation
within our timeframe
- WebEdge: runs on its own proprietary web
engine; not clear whether it supports attachments
Application Hosting:
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EMU3
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IMHO
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installed by Sam; difficult to
install
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IMP
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installed by Sam
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OSCemail
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Twig
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installed by Sam
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WorldPilot
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installed by Andy
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Test Accounts
- Peggy Yetter: accounts on spinner.med for
testing
- ID=email ID, passwords were given in
meeting (call Peggy for info)
- Host=spinner.isc-net.upenn.edu
- Host server being prepared for final
candidate test (can be used for Emu3 or OSCemail if
necessary)
Peggy will provide spinner specs . .
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Test Scripting
Server issues
- Performance issues
- Speed
- Scalability on server (performance under
large load)
- IMAP behavior
- Load on web server
Interface/user
issues
- Different browsers (Netscape vs. IE) behave
differently
- OS issues
- HTML issues
- Both browsers, current version
- Perceived performance (speed)
Modifications to ELM
testscript
- editing with both mouse and keyboard
commands
- #3 not needed
- User preferences options #17, sorting order
#19
- Eliminate #18
- Delete issues, what are the actual commands
to IMAP? (expunged?)
- Redirect/bounce
- Cc and bcc
- Ability to save message as text
- Does it have help? How to use
- What headers are display (can it display
any or all headers)
- Eliminate #30
- Does quitting the browser kill all evidence
of the session
- add html e-mail, does it do plain text and
html
Research
- Who is using the product
- What size installations and performance of
those installations
- Special problems?
Peggy and Janet will do draft for
comment
We'll accept feedback on the server/admin
components of the script
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