Re: Moving forward ....

Vexim badly needs a push from someone to move it forward :)
There are a LOT of really cool things which could be done, but I've had
no time for.

The wiki is unfortunately toast :(
This was completely my fault. I was tinkering with the database, with no
backup. Cest la vie.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070917032247/veximwiki.silverwraith.com/index.php/Main_Page
There is a lot of the data we had up there, and it's not difficult ot
get, just needs someone to spend an hour doing it :-)

I have the mailing list archives, they're very safe. I hadn't realised
they were broken!
I've fixed the link to here:
http://silverwraith.com/pipermail/vexim/
There's tons of data in there.

If you have contributions, we should get them. However I think the
project needs a rewrite. I initially wrote it when I was fairly new to
web programming and in a hurry because Qmail sucked and I had to migrate
away from Vpopmail before my server died a horrible death.

With 7 years of experience since then, I can safely say:
  1. PHP is not the most appropriate language unless it is done *very*
     well.
  2. The code is a nightmare - it's hard to maintain and even more
     difficult to improve.
  3. We need to start with a solid feature / requirement list for the
     next version, code to that, and then do proper planning for
     subsequent version.

Man, I so wish I had the time to do this, but alone I definitely don't.
With one or two other people involved we could really do something
great. The problem has always been getting two or three other people who
want to do the coding :-)
We have great people who have always been willing to test releases when
they were made, and for that I've always been grateful!


Just remember - at least count we had ~40k mailboxes managed by vexim.
When we do a new version, it has to be done perfectly, and with an
upgrade path for existing users.


On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:40:07AM +1030, Tim Aslat wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> With Axel's recent post regarding his roundcube plugin, I'm throwing a  
> little time at my vexim install over the new year break and wanted to  
> consolidate a few things.
>
> A couple of months ago I noticed that the vexim wiki had been more or  
> less trashed by spammers and now seems to be missing half the actual  
> backend data.
>
> Unfortunately I suspect that the existing useful information that was on  
> the wiki is now gone for good.
>
> I realise that it's been over 2 years (closer to 3 years actually) since  
> the release of 2.2.1, so maybe it's time to revitalise the project.
>
> Perhaps it's worthwhile to start with a list of customisations that  
> people have made to their vexim installs, and any hints/tricks/tips that  
> are associated with those modifications.
>
> Unfortunately the mailing list archives appear to be missing as well, so  
> whatever wisdom was contained therein is now gone.
>
> I'm one of those people who don't delete email (except spam) so I have a  
> more or less complete archive from when I first subscribed back in 2005.
>
> Does anyone else have anything to contribute and get this project back  
> on it's feet?
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim
>
>
>
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