Squirrelmail is definately more mature (I used it for many years and
wrote a plugin for it), but I think Roundcube is a viable competitor.
Like Squirrelmail, Roundcube has a plug-in system. There are
Roundcube plugins for SpamAssassin settings, vacation, LDAP passwords,
Google address book, etc.
Roundcube's user interface is much more modern than SM's. It feels
like a mail app, not a web page. It's more like GMail or Zimbra. Some
people prefer Squirrelmail's simple approach... with frames (blechz).
Also, SM's development seems to have slowed down in the last couple of
years, whereas Roundcube has seen an explosion in plugins and features.
In terms of design, I think Roundcube wins hands-down. I think the
lead dev is a Mac guy; it has that kind of OS/X, Redmine feel to it.
In short, I think it's worth trying out. For an organization, I'd
recommend a pilot project. Set it up, point it to your IMAP server, and
let 10 users try it out for a week.
--Derek
On 01/26/2010 12:32 AM, Francois Caen wrote:
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Derek Simkowiak <[email protected]> wrote:
eBox comes with eGroupWare for webmail, but my favorite webmail is
Roundcube. I've been using Roundcube to an eBox server for over a year now.
Do you find Roundcube to be robust enough for real production use? I
played with it a couple years ago, it was very slick and promising at
the time but not ready for prime time yet, so I stuck with the good
old squirrel.
