Freelance Propaganda

Lovely open source

My father just called me from Hong Kong all stressed because he couldn’t access his email—and that was after I spent a while setting up a proper IMAP+webmail system.

He was forgetting that the username is just the bit before the @ symbol, not the whole email address. THis has happened before and I’m sure that it’ll happen again.

The wonders of open source and the easy to edit nature of php means that it was super easy to alter the text that displays on the log-in screen for squirrelmail. It now looks like:

I guess I could also have altered the code to just strip the unneeded bits off, but this is easier and I’m lazy.

Now if I could just come up with a way to help them remember the webmail url!