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A comment on Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail?.

Re:Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail? by dochtman on Thursday October 20, 2011 @08:22AM (#3134467)
AFAICT the best alternative, interface-wise, is Roundcube, and it doesn't seem particularly exciting (it's also written in PHP... which doesn't necessarily have to count against it, but makes me a little wary).

I've foolishly started to build my own, which at some point may become good enough to open source (I certainly don't want to commercialize it).

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Re:Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail? by unicornporn on Thursday October 20, 2011 @09:31AM (#3134704)
Roundcube it is. If one is looking for threading and the more advanced options available in Gmail there's not much of an alternative as it stands right now.
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Re:Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail? by nprincigalli on Thursday October 20, 2011 @09:52AM (#3134804)
Interestingly, I remember in 2006 Roundcube was already being touted as a gmail lookalike. Back when being able to move your emails from one folder to another using drag-n-drop in the browser made you feel /slick/ :)
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Re:Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail? by whichdan on Thursday October 20, 2011 @01:33PM (#3135860)
http://trac.roundcube.net/browser/trunk/roundcubemail

Looks like pretty straightforward PHP4. I wouldn't really hold that against it unless you plan to do development with it.

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Re:Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail? by pstadler on Thursday October 20, 2011 @09:45AM (#3134780)
Roundcube is by far the most clean, intuitive and beautiful opensource webmail client out there.

> it's also written in PHP... which doesn't necessarily have to count against it, but makes me a little wary

why that?

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Re:Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail? by mahcuz on Thursday October 20, 2011 @09:54AM (#3134815)
Because it's PHP. Duh.

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Re:Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail? by getsat on Thursday October 20, 2011 @12:23PM (#3135562)
The quality of the code in your average PHP project is... less than stellar. Low quality code typically results in exploitable bugs (XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, remote code execution, local filesystem access, etc.).
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