I’m in Baghdad now, where my only link to the ‘net is a high-latency satellite. Mozilla Thunderbird can’t hack the delays this introduces, and thus times out when attempting to fetch my IMAP mailbox on ender. Thus, rather than use one of the other shitty IMAP clients, I’ve decided to pull the trigger on SquirrelMail.

I have previously attempted to install RoundCube, but found it a bit too immature at this point, so I’ve decided to go with something tried and true: SquirrelMail.

Fortunately, the FreeBSD ports collection includes SM, and a pre-built package based on 1.4.5 is available. Unfortunately, the pre-built package uses Apache 1.3, while I run Apache 2 on bonzo. This leads to all sorts of fun: