The sys admin's daily grind: RoundCube
The Changeling
Charly has a web mailer on his server just for family and friends. Last weekend he ditched the overly simplistic SquirrelMail for a Web 2.0 program.
For many years, my faithful root server has held the email accounts of my family and a few friends. Some of them had their problems with fat clients like Thunderbird, and they simply used a web mailer to handle their mail. At the time, I selected SquirrelMail [1] for this, primarily for ease of use. After all these years, it's still hard to beat SquirrelMail on this account – the user interface is simple, and the SquirrelMail Project team has reduced it to the bare essentials.
However, my users, who had become increasingly demanding over the years, were living with a number of inconveniences, including recurring security issues, especially of late. Fortunately, SquirrelMail isn't the only web mailer on the planet, and last weekend, RoundCube [2] finally succeeded the Squirrel.
Although the fairly low version number, 0.2.2, might make you think otherwise, RoundCube turns out to be an extremely mature and stable application that can look back on many years of development history.
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