> we're planning on "upgrading" from Squirrelmail to Roundcube these days,
> as it looks a lot sleeker. Roundcube is more "desktop application like"
> than Squirrelmail.
>
I've tried both of those. I agree that RC is "prettier". No question
that SM has a vastly richer feature set, especially with its wealth of
plugins. If you are just looking to provide a pleasant but basic
interface, I would go for RC. If there are sophisticated users who
might want to give things a real workout, I would go with SM.
Over the years, I've looked at a lot of webmail interfaces (though very
few of the not-free-as-in-beer packages) for my humble and eclectic user
population. In a word, they are all a disappointment along at least one
of the dimensions of (1) easy on the eyes, (2) rich feature set, (3)
admin hassle. Most of them tend to be written in PHP and don't really
integrate well with anything else you might happen to be running.
(i.e., if you have some kind of web site logon, the best you can
probably do is stash the raw credentials somewhere and hide the logon to
the webmail interface.) There are a variety of webmail packages that
will do whatever some random geek (i.e., the kind of person who reads
this list :-)) would want, but these turn out to be surprisingly
confusing to the non-geek population.
If someone finds this holy grail of webmail interfaces, please do let us
all know.
