Topic: FYI: Great ajax mail client

[djhomeless]

Howdy all,
I know everyone just loves Horde (well, not me anyway), but I wanted to let everyone know about a new IMAP mail client that I've been following the progress of.

Its called RoundCube and it recently just passed Alpha status. If you like the Ajax-effects on Gmail, you'll love Roundcube. Its pretty, its sleek, and it very easy to deploy.

I've got it running on an Ibay, and with a little modification to the config, you can get it to check virtually any IMAP account on, or off your box.

Check it out: http://www.roundcube.net/

Geoffrey

[gregswallow]

Good find - I'd like to make an rpm for it.  Can you tell me what modifications you had to take to make it work.

Horde also has an Ajax webmail client in the works.  It's called DIMP (Dynamic IMP) - but only works with the CVS version of Horde at the moment.

[djhomeless]

Just two places, first the config file has a way of checking multiple IMAP servers, however it is not documented well.

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$rcmail_config['default_host'][] = 'localhost';
$rcmail_config['default_host'][] = 'imap.somedomain.com';
$rcmail_config['default_host'][] = 'imap.anotherdomain.com';

What that will do is give the user a drop down to select when logging in. However, if your going to jump dump it on your SME, just put in the following default setting:

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$rcmail_config['default_host'] = 'localhost';

The other config I set, which to be honest I'm not 100% sure I had to, was the default IMAP port:

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$rcmail_config['default_port'] = 993;

I know on startup I can see both IMAP and IMAPS starting, so just to be safe I configured roundcube to use 993 instead of 143. However, since its on localhost, I guess using 143 wouldn't hurt.

This is a really slick client, its impressive how far its come in just a few short months (since Alpha).

Geoffrey

[Franco]

Very Nice!
Works fine with 6 and 7!
I'm having a nard time trying to get LDAP to work, have you tried that?

Thanks,

[Jáder]

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$rcmail_config['default_host'][] = 'localhost';
$rcmail_config['default_host'][] = 'imap.somedomain.com';
$rcmail_config['default_host'][] = 'imap.anotherdomain.com';


This do not work to me. I do not get a combo  box to choose my email server.

Other thing:
I was unable to see other folders than Inbox, send a trash! I have several other visible on webmail (horde) of SME7pre3.

Jáder

[policymap]

Is there a contrib or Howto for RoundCube ?
I would really like to try it out

VJ

[jamesd1343]

dropped files into ibay with permissions
created mysql db
edited conf files one for db connection other to specify domain name
logged in

all seems to be working for the most part

[Jáder]

I also did same thing.
And was unable to see my other folders (see previous post) because they do not came selected by default and I haven´t changed that on "Settings".


Jáder

[Franco]

Jader, I don't know what is it you're setting wrong, but for me it has worked fine. My complaints are about the limitations of the application itself: no search and no calendar.

Rgds,

[djhomeless]

Well it is still technically a beta. I just love the ease of use of the application. I'm hopeful in future versions they will encorporate a wysiwyg editor and of course search.

Geoffrey

[Ryan483]

Here is my how-to and my first contrib:
http://ryanspencer.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8&Itemid=23

Any improvements are welcome  

[cactus]

Here is my how-to and my first contrib:
http://ryanspencer.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8&Itemid=23

Any improvements are welcome  

Don't login using the root password. If you login from the console or over SSH you don't need a password. Login like this:

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mysql -u root
You will notice that you don't need a password from the localhost. (There is a  root password which you will never need in normal use. This password is a random string generated by the SME Server, and should therefore never be changed manually. Many users have had issues with this.)

[Ryan483]

Edited my how-to to reflect your comment. Thank you!

[Franco]

you're still missing the

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mysql roundcubemail < SQL/mysql.initial.sql

Good stuff!
Thanks,

[Ryan483]

Edited again. Wow, you guys are on the ball! How did I miss that?