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Re: Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail?

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Post by aninteger »

nodata wrote: post #15
Hoodoo wrote: post #14

I have recently switched from Roundcube to Squirrelmail - the former worked annoyingly slow for me. I only had to tweak the source code a bit to get rid of these _ugly_ iframe borders. I don't use web interface too much though.

I seriously cannot believe that something that looks like it was designed for Netscape Navigator still exists. There must be a need for it over everything else, I'd love to know where it's still used.

Some of us favor the old web 1.0 interface. It's clean and simple and it renders fast.

Re: Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail?

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Post by getsat »

pstadler wrote: post #26
dochtman wrote: post #6

AFAICT the best alternative, interface-wise, is Roundcube, and it doesn't seem particularly exciting (it's also written in PHP... which doesn't necessarily have to count against it, but makes me a little wary). I've foolishly started to build my own, which at some point may become good enough to open source (I certainly don't want to commercialize it).

Roundcube is by far the most clean, intuitive and beautiful opensource webmail client out there. > it's also written in PHP... which doesn't necessarily have to count against it, but makes me a little wary why that?

The quality of the code in your average PHP project is... less than stellar. Low quality code typically results in exploitable bugs (XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, remote code execution, local filesystem access, etc.).

Re: Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail?

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Post by whichdan »

dochtman wrote: post #6

AFAICT the best alternative, interface-wise, is Roundcube, and it doesn't seem particularly exciting (it's also written in PHP... which doesn't necessarily have to count against it, but makes me a little wary). I've foolishly started to build my own, which at some point may become good enough to open source (I certainly don't want to commercialize it).

http://trac.roundcube.net/browser/trunk/roundcubemail

Looks like pretty straightforward PHP4. I wouldn't really hold that against it unless you plan to do development with it.

Re: Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail?

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Post by nuclear_eclipse »

pja wrote: post #31
nuclear_eclipse wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dovecot supports it, but are there any good, stable IMAP clients that work with it?

Thunderbird good enough? (Although I usually kill the default tags that Thunderbird still includes as a hangover from the original Thunderbird release because that way I get useful tag names in the Maildir should I ever need to hack on them directly.)

I didn't realize Thunderbird supported Dovecot's tagging abilities. Is that something I need to enable? How do I use it? I've been using TB for years because it's the only IMAP client that does things the way I want (other than Mutt), but I didn't realize I could have arbitrary tagging with it.

Re: Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail?

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Post by pja »

nuclear_eclipse wrote: post #47
pja wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thunderbird good enough? (Although I usually kill the default tags that Thunderbird still includes as a hangover from the original Thunderbird release because that way I get useful tag names in the Maildir should I ever need to hack on them directly.)

I didn't realize Thunderbird supported Dovecot's tagging abilities. Is that something I need to enable? How do I use it? I've been using TB for years because it's the only IMAP client that does things the way I want (other than Mutt), but I didn't realize I could have arbitrary tagging with it.

Just right-click on an email and go to "Tag...". You might want to delete the default tags (which originate with TB 1.0) and create your own new ones from scratch.
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