CAudium Mail Access System 1.0
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Copyright
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CAudium Mail Access System (aka CAMAS) is Copyright  The Caudium Group, 2000-
2001. Bases on IMHO 0.97.1, please see the CREDIT-IMHO file.

CAMAS is a designed to run on Caudium and compatible servers using 123Session 
from Kai Voigt (see file server/modules/misc/123session.pike on caudium source
tree for more informations). 

CAMAS is Copyright  2000-2001 The Caudium Group

This software is distributed under GPL, see the file COPYING for more details.

Installing
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Read INSTALLING file for installation instructions

The directories
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server/		The whole CAMAS code for caudium. 
 +---- etc/	Pike Modules and includes for CAMAS
 +---- modules/	Camas Caudium modules.

tools/		Contains some tools used to help CAMAS developpers and
		And adminstrators.
		Importants programs :
		 o calta.pike    -- Program which handle CAMAS language files

layouts/	Contains layouts files that be used to make some neat setup


Why CAMAS ?
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CAMAS is a fork of IMHO 0.97.1, with a lots of new added functions.

We added a lots of functions to 0.97.1, such as :

 o Mail filters,
 o Size of the folders,
 o Customizable login, logout, compose mail screens
 o Bugs corrections, etc...

Code was split into pmod and .h files to help third-party vendors
make modifications easily.

The sessions system is now based on Kai's 123session module, this helps us
to have more flexibility and maybe the capability to have a cluster
of CAMAS behind a load balancer without any IP persistence system.

A lots of site-wide functions were added to help the administrator in
setting up the defaults e.g. for a commercial webmail system.

Compatibilty
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Our aim is to have the most compatible system between IMHO and CAMAS,
if there is some improvement in IMHO we back port it into CAMAS, and
we would wish that the IMHO team have a look into our code to 
add new functionality to their product as well :)

But warning, some features from CAMAS to IMHO maybe are not compatible.

Documentation
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IMHO has a really bad drawback: almost no documentation. The best
way to find the documentation on the layout format is: "use the source, Luke!".
For professional environment this is not acceptable. So we 
expect to create a lots of documentation and give some complete examples
of professional templates to help this tools be accepted by the
professional staff.

Other info
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Caudium websites : http://caudium.net/ and http://caudium.org/
CAMAS website    : http://camas.caudium.net/


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