All, One of the reasons we're a bit late for the OBM 2.4 release is that we've been carefuly evaluating Roundcube as an alternative to our in-house webmail module.
I'm pleased to announce it's now working. We've already made the switch on our production environment and have received very positive feedback. Roundcube looks good, scales nicely, has lots of features, supports a wide range of plug-ins, and the integration process with OBM server was straightforward. The OBM team has also developed an address book plug-in, and plans to contribute back patches and improvements to Roundcube, for the mutual benefit of our communities. OBM webmail (“minig”) is still here and will remain supported for those who prefer it, but you'd rather use it on small scale organizations, where it plays better. Minig was a nice attempt to changing webmail, and quite a large piece of software, but it doesn't fit well with our ambitions for OBM 3.0 : The main complaints we've received were : not enough features for organizations, remaining performance/bug issues on large sites, and too often no love from our main users. It also had qualities like its single inbox model and its powerful full-text search. But it costs us time - which we could spend on more important things - and is not strategic anymore : as its architecture was meant to plug into OBM 2.3, we don't have much source code to keep for version 3 (fortunately we've learned from the development, and this, at least, is an important thing we won't loose). So let's move on, and focus on now (immediate user satisfaction) and tomorrow (a great OBM 3.0) ! And welcome to Roundcube, our new webmail alternative. Best regards, -- Lilian Chamontin, OBM _______________________________________________ Obm mailing list [email protected] http://list.obm.org/mailman/listinfo/obm
