In 2018, RoundCube Next Remains Dead In The Water

[holunder]

Open-Xchange App Suite quite good. Web based and much more modern UI than Roundcube, Mailbox.org is using this.

[labyrinth153]

Never liked Aaron Seigo.

[kingu]

And with Mailpile having done the same and actually delivered, dead in a water that has long since passed the bridge?

[fuzz]

I've moved away from it when Nextcloud Mail got usable. Still lacks some functions, but it works well for just reading and sending mails.

Same. Only main thing missing is archiving, but that doesn't keep it from being usable. (And if I need it I open up Rainloop within Nextcloud)

[chris61]

Please have a look at https://github.com/roundcube. The newest version is Roundcube Webmail 1.3.6 at https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/tag/1.3.6/ from April 11 2018.

[cen1]

Looks like a classic scam&run to me.

[caligula]

Never liked Aaron Seigo.

I only remember that he desperately focused on eye candy and all "plasma" related when the whole KDE (4.x) was totally unstable and horrible. Who cares about stability and usability when you have all the bells and whistles. This would largely explain why the new project failed as well.

[Slithery]

Please have a look at https://github.com/roundcube. The newest version is Roundcube Webmail 1.3.6 at https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/tag/1.3.6/ from April 11 2018.

What does that have to do with anything? The discussion here is about roundcube-next not roundcube.

[Tomin]

https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/issues/6030

There are a few mistakes to clarify: the Roundcube Next crowdfunding was not done by Roundcube but by Kolab Systems. It was meant to become a successor for Roundcube and therefore we helped promoting it and also helped in the early stages of conception and prototyping. Anything that goes beyond is the sole responsibility of Kolab Systems and can only be explained by them. Despite the naming, there's no relation between the two projects and thus this ticket was opened in the wrong place.

[enrico.tagliavini]

Someone please correct me if I am wrong but isn't KMail the basis for Kolab's Roundcube? If that is the case then it is little wonder there are serious, perhaps fatal, issues turning that app into a full-fledged corporate email and PIM system. KMail has been unstable since birth. Besides, between Outlook and now Outlook 365, Gmail and G-Suite, ZOHO and other cloud based information sharing and mail solutions why would anyone choose an unstable desktop e-mail solution much less an enterprise one based on KMail ?

I would. I use kmail for my daily business since 5 years now. While a bit OT, I'll add that indeed kmail had some bumps on the road, but overall works well enough for me to not want to bother with anything else. Mostly I like the light speed search engine. You can get it on web based clients too (including roundcube btw), but for some reason kmail just works better and faster for me, I don't have to think what I do.