Comments on: Goodbye SquirrelMail, Hello RoundCube

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:19:08 +0000

unfortunatly i dont have a email server installed… as my webserver is hosted from home :p I have however installed it, now all i need is a small mail server to test it on

By: Phil Underhill

Phil Underhill — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:24:08 +0000

Hi all!

I tried out Roundcube the other day, and it’s looking good, but I have a huge problem.

I can log in okay, and it gets the mails from my IMAP server (Kerio 6.1.2) but next to each folder it contains the number of mails and all the folders are in bold text.

I’m not sure if this is a design feature but it makes you believe you have, say, 8 unread e-Mails in a folder whereas they are actually mails already read.

Any ideas?

By: Alex Hutton

Alex Hutton — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 23:54:43 +0000

You might want to take a look at Hula. I haven’t played with it, but anecdotal evidence is AJAX-y goodness, iCal integration, and it has the backing of Novell.

By: Dan Bailey

Dan Bailey — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 04:21:03 +0000

RoundCube is the nicest webmail I’ve ever used. Once it has the planned GPG encryption support I’ll definitely use it instead of Thunderbird/Enigmail.

By the way, Dreamhost users can vote for RoundCube to replace squirrelmail.

By: mandrl

mandrl — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:54:09 +0000

Thanks for the pointer. The demo looked really neat for a webmail script.

Another Dreamhost customer here. I can recommend them, they’re great! :)

By: Cetixx

Cetixx — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:21:10 +0000

Just want to mention that RoundCube now support’s PostgreSQL :-)

By: luxuryluke

luxuryluke — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 11:42:28 +0000

Roj: Doesn’t this mean that Roundcube isn’t actually using AJAX?

AJAX means ‘asynchronous’ which, in the best possible environment would be degradable. If it’s not degradable javascriptfunctionality (xmlhttprequest or not) then is it really AJAX?

Answers?

By: roj

roj — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:26:30 +0000

Unfortunately my work has turned off the XMLHttpRequest function (which I knew before installing this - no nice googleness) but I didn’t realise it would render roundcube completely unusable...possibly they’ve just disabled other javascript, though some stuff works.

I can get in and see the email list but no links work.

oh well. Just so you know before installing it.

By: josh

josh — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 10:01:13 +0000

Yeah, roj, I can confirm that those settings worked for me yesterday WRT dreamhost/port 143. I had wiped and reinstalled my roundcube install, so any other configuration tweaks that I might have made were also undone. So a cleanish install and roj’s settings should work.

By: roj

roj — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 09:48:36 +0000

Ok, so people who still are having problems with the imap 143 error. If you’re with dreamhost try this:

username: the “m..... “ one without the “@yourhost.com”
password: your pass (obviously)
server: mail.yourhost.com

this worked for me anyway.

By: matt shobe

matt shobe — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:11:02 +0000

I can’t wait to get Roundcube up and running, but at this point I must be PHP-challenged or have something gorky going on with my installation. I’ve tried all the remedies listed above for index.php and still see:

Fatal error: Failed opening required ‘include/rcube_shared.inc’ (include_path=’./PATH_SEPARATOR/var/www/roundcube/programPATH_SEPARATOR/var/www/roundcube/program/libPATH_SEPARATOR.:/usr/share/pear’) in /var/www/roundcube/index.php on line 67

“PATH_SEPARATOR” sure seems suspicious. However,http://www.hookturns.com/setting-up-roundcube-on-dreamhost/ mentions a fix for a similar problem on Step 6 and that var name is unchanged. (That fix didn’t work either, dangit.)

I’d be grateful to hear from anyone who’s got my issue pegged.