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Roundcube: Mail.app-like webmail

Roundcube is “a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface”.

Written in PHP and requiring a MySQL database, it is still in Alpa but already offers a rich set of features including multilingual capabilities, full support for MIME and HTML messages, attachments, multiple sender identities, an address book with “find-as-you-type” address book integration, built-in caching for fast mailbox access and external SMTP server support.

And it looks good. It is fully skinnable through XHTML and CSS 2, but there are no prizes for guessing which mail client is the inspiration behind its default skin:

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One blogger is cheeky enough to suggest that,

The interface looks quite similar to Apple Mail, but the best part is that you don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t need to spend a fortune on a Mac to get that great interface and it goes where ever you go.

When the planned features are included, it will give SquirrelMail a run for its money as my webmail client of choice.

You can read more about it, check out some screenshots, download the latest build (it’s free) and find installation guides on the Roundcube web site.

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4 Responses to “Roundcube: Mail.app-like webmail”

  1. Simon says:
    February 4th, 2006 at 2:18 am

    I really really like the layout of this email client, only problem is i dont have email stuff set up on my server, I have just begun attempting to doso with sendmail and imap but such things are poorly documented and ive just been thrown in at the deep end just so i can test this thing…

  2. Brady J. Frey says:
    February 28th, 2006 at 7:44 am

    If you have mail setup on another server, no bother — just put in the mail.yourserver.com and smtp.yourserver.com values in the main editing files. You can house this on your local server, and it connects like a mail client.

  3. Brady J. Frey says:
    February 28th, 2006 at 7:46 am

    I will note, although it looks like mac mail, it’s using thunderbird icons:)

  4. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Roudcube: Mail.app-like webmail says:
    March 4th, 2006 at 12:18 am

    [...] As Brady J. Frey points out in a comment on another post, RoundCube Webmail has recently gone beta, with a release that contains many more features than the version Hawk Wings reviewed late last year. [...]

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