People,
Firstly, thanks to the developers for a really nice product!
I have made the switch from Squirrelmail to RoundCubeMail for (remote) webmail - which is a nice improvement. I have also bitten the bullet and also switched from Thunderbird (for local mail) as well even though there are a few features that I am missing because I think the advantages of having a single mail client again (and one that has a SQL DB for it's data) outweighs the disadvantages. I have been using RCM heavily for some days now and am quite impressed but here are the features I am missing from TB (I know some are already recognised as wish list items but I thought I would repeat them to add weight to their status). In the order I discovered them:
a facility for inserting a text file into the body text
a header lines editor
show ALL of the items in the mail items pane ( increase max from 200
-> 999?)
facility to open (as opposed to save) PDFs
facility to list only folders with unread mails
facility to automatically add new addressees to Address Book from
outgoing mails
keyboard shortcuts
RSS feeds (this seems to have been discussed on the fora a bit but
does not seem to be properly available?)
And also a question: Can plugins be written in Ruby? (I supposed I should read the plugin stuff . .)
Thanks,
Philip Rhoades
GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil@pricom.com.au
On 06/13/11 12:22, Philip Rhoades wrote:
I have been using RCM heavily for some days now and am quite impressed but here are the features I am missing from TB (I know some are already recognised as wish list items but I thought I would repeat them to add weight to their status). In the order I discovered them:
Not a complete response, but I'll pick off the easy ones.
- a facility for inserting a text file into the body text
You can just add it as an attachment. It will show up in the body of the message in most mail readers. Or, copy/paste it. Your web browser can't access your file system, so it isn't going to get any easier than that, although I guess the page could reload with the text of your attachment in the body field.
- a header lines editor
This could work, but would be deceiving. Most of the headers are added after the message leaves RoundCube, so the list it allowed you to edit would be incomplete.
- show ALL of the items in the mail items pane ( increase max from
200 -> 999?)
Already configurable,
$rcmail_config['max_pagesize'] = 200;
in main.inc.php
- facility to open (as opposed to save) PDFs
This is up to your browser. For example, in Firefox, I would click "Open With...", choose my PDF reader, and select "Always do this with files of this type." That's off the top of my head, but it works similarly in all other browsers.
- RSS feeds (this seems to have been discussed on the fora a bit but
does not seem to be properly available?)
Most web browsers already handle RSS feeds.
And also a question: Can plugins be written in Ruby? (I supposed I should read the plugin stuff . .)
Not directly, but you can call Ruby libraries from PHP if you're a masochist. I'd probably avoid it.