{"id":747,"date":"2009-03-05T00:23:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T05:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=747"},"modified":"2011-04-06T19:17:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T00:17:06","slug":"roundcube-vs-squirrelmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2009\/roundcube-vs-squirrelmail\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundcube vs. Squirrelmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Squirrelmail was driving me crazy &#8211; incoming email filtering (via avelsieve) was broken in the old stuff, and the preview pane is broken in the new.  Nothing seems to be very actively maintained.  So I revisited Roundcube, and it looks good.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be keeping Squirrelmail around to manage my incoming email filtering &#8211; avelsieve is just really nice to work with &#8211; and I&#8217;ll be using Roundcube for my web client.  And Thunderbird works great when no corporate firewall is in the way.  Works for me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The only changes I made during Roundcube setup were within [config\/db.inc.php] (trivial) and [config\/main.inc.php]:<\/p>\n<pre><code>\/\/ MDM I used this to install, then moved the installer directory to backup...\r\n\/\/ $rcmail_config['enable_installer'] = true;\r\n\r\n\/\/ MDM This prevents the silly \"host\" box on login.\r\n\/\/ Don't use 'localhost' or outgoing email will fail!\r\n$rcmail_config['default_host'] = 'myserver.com';<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><center><div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roundcube\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedigitalmachine.com\/images\/news\/2009\/email-roundcube.png?resize=400%2C294\" title=\"Roundcube\" width=\"400\" height=\"294\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roundcube<\/p><\/div><div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thunderbird\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedigitalmachine.com\/images\/news\/2009\/email-thunderbird.png?resize=400%2C268\" title=\"Thunderbird\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thunderbird<\/p><\/div><div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Squirrelmail Avelsieve\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedigitalmachine.com\/images\/news\/2009\/email-squirrelmail-avelsieve.png?resize=400%2C276\" title=\"Squirrelmail Avelsieve\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Squirrelmail Avelsieve<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Squirrelmail was driving me crazy &#8211; incoming email filtering (via avelsieve) was broken in the old stuff, and the preview pane is broken in the new. Nothing seems to be very actively maintained. So I revisited Roundcube, and it looks good. I&#8217;ll be keeping Squirrelmail around to manage my incoming email filtering &#8211; avelsieve is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[79,64],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tricks-tips-tools","tag-roundcube","tag-squirrelmail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M11L-c3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}