In 2018, RoundCube Next Remains Dead In The Water

[Vistaus]

Just use Proton Mail and forget about these scammers.

Scammers? Wow, in that case, the Vivaldi Team (from Vivaldi web browser) will lose a lot of credit for offering webmail based on a product from scammers... (Vivaldi's webmail is using RoundCube)

[Vistaus]

Wrong on everything.

KMail isn't unstable, it works fairly well.
Roundcube has nothing to do with KMail. KMail = C++ desktop. Roundcube (and the next version) is web.
Enterprise based on KMail? You just grab that out of thin air. There is an enterprise based on the Kontact suite, KMail is part of that suite. The enterprise version of that is made by kolab. I'm not quite sure if that is Kolab Groupware (i think it is) or KolabNow. Regardless of the name, they - kolab - have their own codebase and their own patches to the whole suite. They often contribute their changes back (or they did, not really following that anymore).

I personally think that we're missing a good great open source desktop and web mail client. KMail and Thunderbird used to take those spots for the desktop, but they show their age and are just not that pleasant of an experience to use, to me that is. On the web we have ... Roundcube as is.. There are a dozen or so alternatives, but nothing that can compete with gmail https://alternativeto.net/software/r...rm=self-hosted

Also, don't forget that RoundCube is still very actively developed by the kolab folks https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail
It's just the next version that seemed to have died out.

Doesn't SquirrelMail offer most things that GMail offers? I always hear people saying how feature-rich SquirrelMail is.

[Tomin]

Scammers? Wow, in that case, the Vivaldi Team (from Vivaldi web browser) will lose a lot of credit for offering webmail based on a product from scammers... (Vivaldi's webmail is using RoundCube)

RoundCube and RoundCube Next are two different things made by different people.

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

Btw, a lot of providers seem to use RoundCube. My ISP uses it as well.

[Vistaus]

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.

Please have a look at https://github.com/roundcube-next/, which is what the article is about. The newest version is... well, not there because there is no version and the latest commits were almost a year ago.

[torsionbar28]

Doesn't SquirrelMail offer most things that GMail offers? I always hear people saying how feature-rich SquirrelMail is.

SquirrelMail is a great basic webmail interface. It's extremely light weight, so it's perfect for dial-up or other slow connection. But it's very basic by today's standards. Roundcube is a much more modern looking webmail app. It also supports two factor authentication, multiple accounts, CardDAV integration, and other "modern" features you expect in 2018. I don't understand the Roundcube Next hype - what was this "Next" supposed to achieve anyways? I like Roundcube exactly as it is today, it lacks nothing.