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Answers to some of our most asked for features:

* Can I use the !SquirrelMail authentication on other web pages not part of !SquirrelMail?
** With Apache you can use {{mod_auth_imap}}. It authenticates the user via the IMAP server.
** Without {{mod_auth_imap}} your web pages may try using cookies set by !SquirrelMail. Or you need to integrate !SquirrelMail authentication procedures in your pages.

* Does !SquirrelMail support pure text?
** Yes.

* Does !SquirrelMail support HTML email?
** !SquirrelMail supports ''reading'' HTML-formatted email messages.
** A [http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=209 plugin] to support ''sending'' HTML-formatted email messages is available as well.

* Does !SquirrelMail have a new user register procedure?
** !SquirrelMail does not come with a new user registration feature built in. See [http://squirrelmail.org/docs/admin/admin-9.html adding accounts] for more info on the reasoning behind this.

* Does !SquirrelMail have a spell checker?
** Yes!  Earlier versions of !SquirrelMail required your mail admin to download and install the SquirrelSpell plugin, but recent versions come with the !SquirrelSpell plugin already in place.  
** The "Check Spelling" button should appear on your compose screen just before the "Cancel" button.  If you don't see it, contact your mail administrator, and ask them to re-enable the !SquirrelSpell feature.

* How well does !SquirrelMail conform to current Accessibility guidelines (W3C and Section 508)?
** Version 1.5.1 added hooks so that it should be possible to construct an accessible theme.

* Does !SquirrelMail work with POP3 email?
** !SquirrelMail is capable of ''retrieving'' email from a POP3 server, via the included Mail Fetch plugin. However, !SquirrelMail requires an IMAP server to run atop of. See SquirrelMailPOP for more information about this.

* How do I know if my server supports IMAP?
** 1. Use telnet to connect to your server. If you receive a greeting message, your server supports IMAP. Connection refused means it is not supported (yet).
*** In Windows: Start -> Run -> telnet servername.com 143
** 2. Mail your webhost and ask them.

* Can I establish a template so every user have the same display properties when the get to their inbox? (ex. same color template, add logos on top, banners, or something?)
** See [http://squirrelmail.org/docs/admin/admin-5.html#ss5.5 Default user preferences].
** Try the [http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=220 Forced Prefs] plugin for setting preferences.
** Try the [http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=30 AddGraphics] plugin and [http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=47 Login Manager] plugin for customizing logos, etc. per host
** Setup a custom theme for your users and set that to their default (using the default preferences file or the Forced Prefs plugin)

* Does !SquirrelMail support address lists? 
** Yes. In your address book, give the list a name as a normal person, then in the address field, add each email address, separated by a comma.

* Can I use !SquirrelMail to connect to an IMAP server via SSL?
** Yes, !SquirrelMail support IMAP-SSL only in combination with PHP 4.3.x or higher. Otherwise you can use [http://www.stunnel.org/ stunnel] to connect it to SSL enabled IMAP server.

* Does !SquirrelMail support LDAP Address Book?
** Yes. You can find it in !SquirrelMail configuration. 6. Address Books (LDAP)

* Does !SquirrelMail work with Postfix/exim/qmail?
** Yes, !SquirrelMail can talk to any Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) via SMTP protocol or sendmail wrappers.

* Can I use !SquirrelMail to send signed e-mail using digital certificates?
* Does !SquirrelMail support S/MIME?
** There are plugins for [http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=54 S/MIME] and [http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=153 GPG/OpenPGP]

* Can !SquirrelMail be configured to access different IMAP servers from a single login page depending on the user logging in?
** Yes, try the [http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=47 Login Manager] plugin or the [http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=148 Multilogin] plugin

* Can !SquirrelMail set a limit on amount of e-mail/disk space useage a user has available?
** No, !SquirrelMail is a webmail interface. Quotas are set by server side software. Availability of quotas depends on the server's setup and not on !SquirrelMail, although a [http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=237 plugin] exists to allow you to see your quota if your server supports them.

* Can I view my mail list in threaded view?
** Yes, if your IMAP server supports threading, make sure you enable it in /config/conf.pl, Option 4, selection number 11.

* Can users configure folders to hold incoming mail?
** Yes, see below for more information.

* Can such folders have rules to direct incoming mail automatically?
** Yes, there is a filter plug-in that will allow users to direct mail to certain folders based on the header information of the message.

* Does !SquirrelMail support automatic forwarding of incoming mail to a different address?
** Yes, several plugins are available for administrators to install that allow users to manage forwarding addresses if their email server supports that feature.

* Does !SquirrelMail support vacation messages (autoresponders)?
** Yes. Check the [http://squirrelmail.org/plugins_category.php?category_id=19 vacation] plugins.

* Does !SquirrelMail have an automatic check for new mail?
** Yes. The New Mail plugin is part of the !SquirrelMail distribution.

* Does !SquirrelMail support multiple mailboxes view as a tree in left mailbox folders pane or at least fast switching to another previously configured mailbox (1st click to open list of configured mailboxes, 2nd click to choose mailbox and switch to)?
** Yes, as long as your current user has appropriate permissions on the other mailboxes they will all appear in the left mailbox folders display, and can be 'switched to' with a single click.  IMAP servers supporting ACLs (such as Cyrus) make this practical.
** If you need to specify a different username/password in order to access the other mailbox(es), there is a proprietary plugin with this feature available from [http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/PaulLesniewski Paul Lesniewski] or you can simply log out and log in as the correct user.

* Does !SquirrelMail support the use of more than one IMAP Account for a single user?
** Re-read the above, please.

* Can I use !SquirrelMail in an intranet?
** Yes, you can use !SquirrelMail in an intranet. You must have WWW and IMAP servers and setup your SMTP server so that it would work only with local users.

* Is !SquirrelMail like [http://webmail.mac.com .Mac]?
** Yes, here are some plugins that make it more similiar:
*** The [http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=93 Bookmarks plugin]. A version of Safari To HTML is in the works which will allow "one click" uploading of Safari bookmarks to !SquirrelMail bookmarks. Contact g l e n n (at) n e t 1 2 7 . c o m
*** The [http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=105 Shared Calendar plugin] is a good substitute for iCal.
*** The [http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=120 File Manager plugin] is vaguely similiar to iDisk.

* Which IMAP servers has !SquirrelMail been tested with?
** [http://www.bincimap.org Binc IMAP]
** [http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/ Courier-IMAP]
** [http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ Cyrus IMAP]
** [http://www.dbmail.org/ DBMail] !FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE
** [http://dovecot.org/ Dovecot] (Fedora Core 2)
** [http://www.hmailserver.com hMailServer]
** [http://www.pmail.com/overviews/ovw_mercury.htm Mercury IMAP] (Win2003)
** Microsoft Exchange Server - SquirrelMailWithExchangeFAQ
** [http://www.washington.edu/imap/ UW IMAP]

* What's the difference between !SquirrelMail and other email programs?
** SquirrelMailAndOthers

* Does !SquirrelMail support WAP Webmail for mobile phones and PDA Web browsers?
** No, WML pages are not generated. You might be able to use !SquirrelMail in a PDA, if your PDA contains a HTML browser that supports cookies. Technically, for example, the Palm Tungsten C browser will display !SquirrelMail using HTTP or HTTPS. Unfortunately, the framed page structure makes it difficult to read your mail on the Palm's small screen.

* Does !SquirrelMail support Language XXXX (pt-br I mean), and how can I translate it?
* Does !SquirrelMail support German Language?
** Yes. Brazilian Portuguese is enabled in !SquirrelMail. You can find in Display Prefs -> Language, if admin has not disabled that translation.
** List of all supported languages can be found in the AUTHORS file.
** Please note, that some !SquirrelMail versions allow disabling unneeded translations, translation files are not distributed in some !SquirrelMail releases and there might be specific requirements in server's config.

* Does !SquirrelMail contain a search-function so that one can search for text strings within emails?
** Yes.

* Does !SquirrelMail support logging in via HTTPS?
** Yes.

* Does !SquirrelMail support reading format=flowed email?
** Yes.

* Can !SquirrelMail be configured to compose format=flowed email?
** No.

* Does !SquirrelMail allow me to add the "to" column to emails I've sent, but moved to another folder?  Also, Is there a way to have the button "edit message as new" available to messages I've sent, but are no longer in the "Sent" folder?
** Version 1.5.x supports adding the "To" column to any folder

* Does !SquirrelMail allow you to sort by file size?
** Yes and no. The development branch (v1.5.x) does and the stable branch (v1.4.x) doesn't.

* For long messages, can you add the header buttons to the bottom of the window as well? E.g., so we don't have to go all the way back to the top of a long message to delete it.
** Version 1.5.x supplies this feature

* When I use two different mail boxes I would like to have at title - f.ex. my email address - at the top so I can see which is which. Does !SquirrelMail support that?
** See username plugin or the [http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=47 Login Manager] plugin

* Does !SquirrelMail support specification of arbitrary From address (i.e. multiple email addresses going into a single mailbox)?
** Yes, although this is entirely dependent upon whether or not your mail server supports this feature.

* Does !SquirrelMail support viewing the entire message source? Currently, "View Full Headers" only shows the headers of the message. What if I would like to see the entire message source?
** See the {{message_details}} plugin, which comes with !SquirrelMail

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