I like the program but it seems to lack a few important usability features.

For example there is no EASY way to create a hyperlink in a mail message. You have to go into HTML mode and add the <a> tag manually.

Also, I can't see how to set up a blocked mail filter to cut off spammers from certain email addresses.

Any ideas about these things?

I tagged RoundCube as "Very pretty but useless" and then disabled it from the server.

As I only use it as an access to me received emails from über shut networks, I even haven't ever seen those issues.
Thinking about it, I think I never, in 3 years, wrote an email from round cube....

Originally Posted by chrishirst

I tagged RoundCube as "Very pretty but useless" and then disabled it from the server.

I'm not sure I'd go quite that far. As mentioned it could use a few key features but I like the AJAX responsiveness of it.

Horde and Squirrel are just too clunky!

And I'm curious too about how many people use or don't use web based mail. I had POP3 email years ago until my computer crashed and I lost a heap of stuff. Never again I said. Been using webmail (hotmail, yahoo, gmail) happily ever since. In these days of "the cloud" that would seem to be the way everyone is moving would it not?

I had POP3 email years ago until my computer crashed and I lost a heap of stuff. Never again I said. Been using webmail (hotmail, yahoo, gmail) happily ever since.

There is no need for an webmail to adresse that shortcoming of POP server.
POP requires you to download the message to read it.

IMAP, on the other hand, works 100% online, and is usually what webmail are doing.
You can access GMAIL via imap, and when you tag a message, you can see a folder created when you access your account with imap.
My mail is setup with my GPG keys and signing/encrypting mail that I send out automatically. Something that I never have seen in any webmail.
I would not upload my private GPG key to a webmail anyway, so it's not that I really look for it.

Webmail are mor for me a way of reading mails than writing. I usually use them when I'm on windows, since I could never found a mail reader that I was satified with.
And no, thunderbird is not that ideal. And don't even get me started on outlook.
It's one of the worst mail client I have ever been using.
The only client that conquered me until now is evolution. There is a windows port, but I could never run it, sadly.
It's killing me that my enterprise is on exchange, if only I could get evolution for windows working, I could use it's exchange connector...

If only the sysadmins would enable imap access.But no, only pop3 is allowed. Sigh.

I would try out the google mail. www.google.com/a I have been using it for about a month and I love it, I save and use google for everything.