Improved Webmail

Posted by stephen on Sunday, 05th February, 2006 @ 01:00

Every now and then I find it necessary to resort to using my web-based email service. Usually if I'm not with my laptop or if I can't get anything except web access on the network I'm on.

For these times I have setup SquirrelMail on my server. I know quite a few users with accounts on my mail server make regular use of the service too. Trouble is, it's pretty hideous to look at and to use.

So today I've installed a brand new web based email system that'll run side by side with SquirrelMail. It's called RoundCube and it's pretty darn excellent, as long as you're using a recent browser.

It's currently in the fairly early development stages, but seems to be working well from the limited use I've made of it. If you've got a mail account with me you can try it out yourself, and feel free to use it instead of SquirrelMail. Be warned it may be buggy for now though.

You can find it at:
https://secure.neuron1.com/webmail/

As usual you'll need to accept the self-signed SSL certificate and you can login with your normal username and password. If you've got lots mail it may take a couple of minutes to log in the first time. But it builds a cache in it's database, so successive logins should be much quicker.

Make sure you Personal Settings - Identities and edit your name and email address so that message come from the right place! You can even setup multiple identities if you've got a whole domain with me and want to send messages from other addresses.

Let me know what you think. I'll try and stay current as new versions come out and hopefully it'll be backwards compatible.