endymion mail

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mail features
We have been developing web-based mail systems since 1996, and we have sold web-based mail products on the commercial market since 1997. The feature set provided by Endymion Mail is the culmination of years of experience in the web-based mail market. Our experience has taught us what features your users will be interested in seeing in a mail product. We also have a sense of what features are not worth including because they confuse users or provide little benefit. We have seen first-hand the sort of problems that you might run into when you plan and implement your web-based email system and we have worked to make the entire process as smooth as possible Endymion Mail provides a feature set that is the result of years of thoughtful refinement, we do not simply throw in every new feature possible. We consider these features to be of critical importance to a web-mail system:

elegant interface

The mail interface in Endymion Mail is the result of years of refinement of web-based mail interfaces in several different products. We design for simplicity and usability and we always have the user's overall experience in mind. The features that we include are the features that we know that users really do commonly request. Features that we know that users don't really use, we leave out of the interface. Our interface is easy for your users to understand, so you will hear fewer questions and problems from your users. We hear fewer questions and problems from you, and everybody wins.

 

IMAP and POP3 support
Endymion Mail can display mailboxes on IMAP mail servers, display mailboxes on POP3 servers, or it can download mail from POP3 mailboxes into a local message store on the web server. Configurable, swappable drivers provide access to the mail store, so we can provide drivers that directly access mail spool files or "maildir" mailboxes if there is a demand. If you need your web site's web mail system to access a custom mail store of some kind and you are looking for a web mail application that provides you with the flexibility to develop your own mailbox access drivers, then Endymion Mail is what you're looking for.

 

SMTP or Sendmail support
Endymion Mail can send outbound messages using either a standard SMTP server, or it can directly access your "sendmail" executable on your web server for sending messages. We can add support for any new outbound mail systems that we see demand for.

 

attachments

The MIME processor component is extremely sophisticated and can handle extremely complex MIME messages and display them elegantly to the user. Our message rendering engine has been under constant development and refinement since 1997. We know how to build a MIME processor. Looking for a web mail system that can handle those forwards of forwards of forwards of MHTML messages that include HTML-formatted newsletters with some images referenced externally and some images included as attachments in the message? Endymion Mail can do that, no problem.

 

address book

The Endymion Engine provides a mechanism for providing an address book while staying agnostic about where the data lives. We can plug in drivers that support any kind of address book that you can imagine. We provide one that we like that stores address books in simple flat text files. We can provide other modules when we see demand for them, or if you have a unique system that you need to build custom access software for, you can do that. We will help you to develop the simple Perl drivers necessary to access your data or you can hire us to do it for you.

 

directory

The directory component provides an address book that is write-only and shared with other users. Like the address book component, the directory component's data is provided by drivers that can be swapped into your system and tweaked. We provide an LDAP directory access component, we can provide others as there is demand. Ask us about custom drivers for unique situations.

 

settings

Endymion Mail uses the settings engine provided by the Endymion Engine. This settings system allows you to easily configure default and forced settings for your users using a web-based administration application or by editing text configuration files. Settings are stored and read using an interchangable driver component that can be customized if you need to store your user preferences in a specific type of database.

architectural features

Many of Endymion Mail's most useful features are provided by the Endymion Engine. These features are shared by other web applications and components that use the Endymion Engine. Since the underlying engine that supports Endymion Mail is shared with other web applications, your web mail system and any other Endymion Engine components will benefit from improvements and refinements through instant automated updates as we improve our products. The Endymion Engine provides these helpful benefits:

interface themes
Every application's look and feel is completely decided by HTML template files. The specific set of templates called a "theme" can be selected as your program runs. Interface themes define the structure of the entire application, including images, colors, fonts, style sheets, and the positioning of elements on pages. Some web applications come with optional components that can be included your application themes, to give you the maximum possible degree of customization over our applications. Two different users can access an application using two different themes at the same time, so you can maintain one copy of a web application that you use on several different web sites with different appearances.

 

language translation
Language translation files define any language-dependent phrases in an application. Two different users can access an application using two different languages at the same time. The language translation files are not tied to the interface themes, so any theme can be translated into any available language. We are too small to be able to provide official translations of every possible language for every possible Endymion Engine component, but we collect translations provided by our customers and make them available to you whenever possible.

 

CGI or mod_perl
Any .endymion. engine application can integrate with your web server either as a CGI application or as a mod_perl module. Applications act as true mod_perl modules, which provide their own handlers to Apache. They do not run in the less efficient "CGI emulation" mode under Apache::Registry or Apache Perl*Run. Using mod_perl is a free and simple way to push the performance of your web site's dynamic elements through the roof. The Endymion Engine is designed to effectively leverage the opportunities provided for accelerating a web application under environments like mod_perl. If we see demand for other server interface technologies such as FCGI, then we have the option of supporting it.

 

no dependencies
The Endymion Engine does not require anything but a Perl interpreter. You do not have to have mod_perl, and you do not need to install any special libraries or Perl modules. Each download of any application is totally self-contained and provides everything necessary to operate, as long as you already have Perl installed. You get everything that you need from us, and our distributions and automated update scripts ensure that your supporting software is up to date.

 

fast output
The Endymion Engine provides a general template language that uses <% %> and <? ?> directives like many other template processing systems. The Endymion Engine processes template files in advance into Perl code. The fast pre-generated Perl code is used at runtime, so an application can fling pages to your users entirely from your server's memory without ever touching your server's disks. Each Endymion Engine application is a pre-optimized, highly specialized Perl script that generates output much more quickly than other systems that process templates as they run. This is especially useful when running under mod_perl, where in-memory caching can very effectively improve the runtime performance of a web applicaion if used well.