Open Source AJAX Webmail 311
scrasher writes "It seems AJAX webmail is all the craze. Right on the heels of both Microsoft and Yahoo launching beta versions of their new AJAX webmail clients, an Open Source startup RoundCube has released an alpha of a GPLed AJAX webmail client. While there are still many features missing (like search!), the demo they have is completely cross-browser compliant and overall very impressive."
Foldername length patch. (Score:5, Interesting)
http://suso.suso.org/programs/roundcube/ [suso.org]
Roundcube is pretty neat, but it still has some bugs. The IMAP client caches everything so that it is faster on subsequent tries, but on large mailboxes it can be a real pain the first time. It makes for a good program to hack on though. Its just what I've been looking for to replace squirrelmail on suso.org [suso.org].
Zimbra (Score:5, Interesting)
Ajax is the first genuinely new thing I can think of this century.
Re:Zimbra (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:One comment and slashdotted! (Score:4, Interesting)
Roundcube as extensible as Squirrelmail? (Score:2, Interesting)
We have found that we can extend Squirrelmail to present a very lite webmail presence, yet keep the functionality simple so that basic features will still work in a syncronized fashion with a heavy remote client (IMAPS).
Roundcube still needs some kind of anti-spam integration and automated signup routines, but we will certainly keep an eye on it.
what communik8r? (Score:2, Interesting)
Installed! Looks nice thus far... (Score:5, Interesting)
- Server-side sorting so that all messages don't need to be downloaded in order to view, say, the 15 newest.
- Special folder support, such as Junk, Sent, Trash, etc. Currently send mail just goes off into the ether.
Other than that, I'm pretty impressed. I personally currently use Squirrelmail [squirrelmail.org] for my webmail needs, but it feels a bit clunky. If they can meet Squirrelmail's features (at a minimum) I can see this being used all over the place. I find the use of a DB for things like user/session/whatever management to be a bit odd, but at least actual files don't have to be used then.
Installed it, easy install, not bad (Score:2, Interesting)
Definitely keeping an eye on this, though. I'd not mind a friendlier webmail interface.
Re:Zimbra (Score:3, Interesting)
List of AJAX Webmail clients? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Buggy (Score:1, Interesting)
This is blatently incorrect. Most regular email apps "open the email" when you click on it. i.e. The email is shown in a preview pane. Double-clicking has a very different effect of opening the email in a new window. Since this program does not open the email in a new window when double-clicked, its implementation is wrong.
And to define wrong, I mean: inconsistent with the rest of the applications and unintuitive to a new user. "Wrong" may also be construed to mean a failure to meet HCI guidelines. The seventh guideline from this page [sourcelabs.com], for example, states that you should not, "Invent new UI conventions [for AJAX applications]."
Re:Zimbra (Score:3, Interesting)
And "since 1999" refers to 2000 to the present, not 1999 to the present.
I'm fully aware that the first century did not start in year 0, but use of 1999 rather than 2000 creates a better mental separation from the present, which is better for comedic purposes.
Re:But can it do grouped CONVERSATIONS like gmail? (Score:3, Interesting)
I've never understood what the big deal is about conversation grouping was and why other mail clients found it so difficult to implement. Conversation grouping is one of the easiest things to implement and it should be considered a bare minimum for mail clients. We're talking a few hundred lines of code at most to implement the feature. Why is it so hard? Yahoo? Hotmail? Yep, I'm talking to you.
Re:List of AJAX Webmail clients? (Score:2, Interesting)