> we're planning on "upgrading" from Squirrelmail to Roundcube these days,
> as it looks a lot sleeker.  Roundcube is more "desktop application like" 
> than Squirrelmail.
>   

I've tried both of those.  I agree that RC is "prettier".  No question 
that SM has a vastly richer feature set, especially with its wealth of 
plugins.  If you are just looking to provide a pleasant but basic 
interface, I would go for RC.  If there are sophisticated users who 
might want to give things a real workout, I would go with SM.

Over the years, I've looked at a lot of webmail interfaces (though very 
few of the not-free-as-in-beer packages) for my humble and eclectic user 
population.  In a word, they are all a disappointment along at least one 
of the dimensions of (1) easy on the eyes, (2) rich feature set, (3) 
admin hassle.  Most of them tend to be written in PHP and don't really 
integrate well with anything else you might happen to be running.  
(i.e., if you have some kind of web site logon, the best you can 
probably do is stash the raw credentials somewhere and hide the logon to 
the webmail interface.)  There are a variety of webmail packages that 
will do whatever some random geek (i.e., the kind of person who reads 
this list :-)) would want, but these turn out to be surprisingly 
confusing to the non-geek population.

If someone finds this holy grail of webmail interfaces, please do let us 
all know.


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