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Very, very happy to see this. About 8 years ago, I was singularly managing my company's email. When I was hired, they had been using an awful php based mail sy

by geuis 13y ago

Very, very happy to see this. About 8 years ago, I was singularly managing my company's email. When I was hired, they had been using an awful php based mail system. My first major upgrade was to start using Roundcube. This was a very, very early version and one of the first open source mail projects to offer 'ajax' functionality. When Gmail for business became available, we migrated to that, but for a while Roundcube was the best web interface for email there was to be found. Sadly I haven't kept up with the project over the years, but my early memories still serve me well and I hope that the project has gotten much better over the years.

thaumaturgy 13y ago
> ...and I hope that the project has gotten much better over the years. It has! They have made some significant improvements. There recently was a huge effort to separate the RC core code -- all of the stuff that talks to imap -- from the rest of the interface, so now people can easily build RC clones. Also, relatively recently, they reworked their skinning system and got a new design professionally made ("Larry", now the default). You can get Roundcube skins for people who like Outlook, or want better mobile support, etc. And if you've got managesieve installed, you can make your email do tricks that Gmail can't.
- kerneis 13y ago
  > And if you've got managesieve installed, you can make your email do tricks that Gmail can't. Would you care to expand on that part? I know what managesieve does, but I thought gmail also had filtering capabilities.
  - thaumaturgy 13y ago
    AFAIK (correct me if I'm missing something!), Gmail allows you to filter messages on From, To, Subject, "Has the words", "Doesn't have", "Has attachment", and Size. Roundcube, via managesieve, can filter on anything in an email message -- any header, any other attribute of an email message you can think of should be doable. Gmail also gives you a useful but limited set of actions for matching messages: archival, applying labels, starring, marking as read, forwarding, deleting. managesieve gives you a lot more options, and possibly one of the nicer ones is the ability to auto-reply to specific messages with a specific other message. My managesieve prefs currently has, "Move message to", "Copy message to", "Redirect message to", "Send message copy to", "Discard with message", "Reply with messsage", "Delete", "Set flags", "Add flags", "Remove flags", "Send notification", etc. Filters was for me the killer feature that moved me from Gmail to Roundcube years ago.
- yogo 13y ago
  A basic filtering mechanism should be provided in addition to managesieve. The most common use would be to filter spam. It seems like roundcube is too sieve-oriented.
  - thaumaturgy 13y ago
    You're right. Most users aren't interested in advanced filtering. I've gotten around this by installing a default Junk filter for everyone, which seems to be a good enough solution. But a simpler, easier-to-use filter system would be nice.

by geuis 13y ago

thaumaturgy 13y ago

> ...and I hope that the project has gotten much better over the years. It has! They have made some significant improvements. There recently was a huge effort to separate the RC core code -- all of the stuff that talks to imap -- from the rest of the interface, so now people can easily build RC clones. Also, relatively recently, they reworked their skinning system and got a new design professionally made ("Larry", now the default). You can get Roundcube skins for people who like Outlook, or want better mobile support, etc. And if you've got managesieve installed, you can make your email do tricks that Gmail can't.

kerneis 13y ago
> And if you've got managesieve installed, you can make your email do tricks that Gmail can't. Would you care to expand on that part? I know what managesieve does, but I thought gmail also had filtering capabilities.
- thaumaturgy 13y ago
  AFAIK (correct me if I'm missing something!), Gmail allows you to filter messages on From, To, Subject, "Has the words", "Doesn't have", "Has attachment", and Size. Roundcube, via managesieve, can filter on anything in an email message -- any header, any other attribute of an email message you can think of should be doable. Gmail also gives you a useful but limited set of actions for matching messages: archival, applying labels, starring, marking as read, forwarding, deleting. managesieve gives you a lot more options, and possibly one of the nicer ones is the ability to auto-reply to specific messages with a specific other message. My managesieve prefs currently has, "Move message to", "Copy message to", "Redirect message to", "Send message copy to", "Discard with message", "Reply with messsage", "Delete", "Set flags", "Add flags", "Remove flags", "Send notification", etc. Filters was for me the killer feature that moved me from Gmail to Roundcube years ago.
yogo 13y ago
A basic filtering mechanism should be provided in addition to managesieve. The most common use would be to filter spam. It seems like roundcube is too sieve-oriented.
- thaumaturgy 13y ago
  You're right. Most users aren't interested in advanced filtering. I've gotten around this by installing a default Junk filter for everyone, which seems to be a good enough solution. But a simpler, easier-to-use filter system would be nice.