Web Mail

[Cassie]

Despite all the obvious problems of the last few months - I am hoping to move my main website to here. Previously I just moved some of my smaller ones just to test them out.

My old main hoster wants to charge me £300+/y for something I can get for £70/y on here. I think I will take the chance.

My question is about Web Mail. All my orders go to 2 different email addresses - one I use in the office and download to outlook, the other I keep on the mail server as a back up. I have got how I am going to do this sorted but I need your opinion on what is the best Web Mail interface to use.

The selections in cpanel are
horde
SquirrelMail
Round Cube

horde looks a little complicated. SquirrelMail looks a little .... well.... old. Round Cube looks OK but with less functions than horde.

As anyone used any of these?

I will need to access them every day - although they are mainly backups I do use them to check if special offers have been sold and also for parsing email addresses for newsletters (opt in of course) via GroupMail. So I do need one which can move emails between folders easily.

I have had a go at them myself but you often don't find the little annoying things until you are down the road a bit. (that sounds like marriage )

Anyway - any insight from you brilliant lot would be appreciated.

[Cassie]

Admin you naughty thing - I am a TEENAGER again

[Administrator]

None of the available Webmail interfaces in cpanel look as good as Yahoo or Gmail interface but there's nothing much we can do as cpanel wont support any other webmail interface.

I prefer to use Horde while traveling but thats just temporary arrangement as there's nothing as beautiful as outlook for me.

There's nothing much for anyone to do to improve cpanel webmail interface

[Administrator]

Originally Posted by Cassie

Admin you naughty thing - I am a TEENAGER again

I can imagine how you feel when someone says that. Even I feel like I should be 21 once again

[jon123]

I must be strange, i really like squirrelmail simply because of its simplicity. That is all i want for storing mail on the server.

I too use outlook (express) as my main client, and as for backup on one email addy I have, I download to outlook but also tell outlook to leave a copy of the messages on the server.

Am i the only one who likes squirrel!

Nice rank Cassie, much better than OAP

[Administrator]

Originally Posted by jon123

I must be strange, i really like squirrelmail simply because of its simplicity. That is all i want for storing mail on the server.

I too use outlook (express) as my main client, and as for backup on one email addy I have, I download to outlook but also tell outlook to leave a copy of the messages on the server.

Am i the only one who likes squirrel!

Nice rank Cassie, much better than OAP

That was completely my personal opinion

I know many customers who love horde and some like Squirrelmail. Basically we fall in love with whatever we use for long time and you seem to be using Squirrelmail from last decade

[Dan]

Neomail was excellent, since neomail ceased the use of it with cPanel i have been using squirrelmail.

[Cassie]

Help - Where's Round Cube gone?

I use that all the time for checking my webmail and now my sites have been migrated across (a bit early but chat told me thats why my sites were down earlier) I am only left with horde & SquirrelMail which I don't like.

Why

[Cassie]

Hay IT BACK - Brill

[Cassie]

spoke too soon - it is there but not working - keeps logging me out after a minute.

I really hope this is only being caused by the migration across. Although I am a bit annoyed I was told by email that this would not affect anything and would happen at 1am in the morning. I have been having problems for a couple of hours with the websites and emails not downloading and then downloading twice. Now I have problems with the webmail

Is it the migration?

[Administrator]

Originally Posted by Cassie

Help - Where's Round Cube gone?

I use that all the time for checking my webmail and now my sites have been migrated across (a bit early but chat told me thats why my sites were down earlier) I am only left with horde & SquirrelMail which I don't like.

Why

We are working on it. it should be sorted shortly.

[kev woodman]

You could set up a rule and forward all your mail to a gmail account. Plenty of storage, a nice interface and a poor mans back-up.

[Cassie]

These are only used as backups of orders but I do need to access them to harvest email addresses for newsletters and to check stock lists etc.

The programe is working but lots and lots of emails from yesterday and today are missing. I know that because, as I said, they are backups and the originals have got to their destination. That is through a different company and email server etc.

I guess the migration didn't go as smoothly as their email promised it would

[walkerasindave]

I use the squirel for my quick online access. I prefer its simplicity because I only ever use the webmail to check things from remote locations never really use it for sending stuff.

Originally Posted by Administrator

...there's nothing as beautiful as outlook

Thunderbird

[Cassie]

I find squirrel too clunky - cube has some nice features that even horde doesn't - such as being able to highlight a few emails easily (without having to tick boxes) and drag to a different folder.

With Help down at the moment how do I find out if my emails are just delayed or missing? What worries me most is that they were there last night but not now.

Yesterday I downloaded one at home from the server to outlook and it has 'leave on server' ticked. I checked after downloading and it was still on the server. This morning when I go to download it at work it is not there anymore - and neither are half the others.

Help