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Posted by Ken
Mar 4, 2015 at 04:29 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
1&1 also do a perfectly acceptable web mail client as part of their
>(very cheap) website deals. There’s a more sophisticated Open
>Xchange-based version, but that costs extra. The basic webmail client is
>actually quite good.
I looked at their site, but was not able to tell what web-mail client they are using. From the screenshots, it did not look much different from the skinned version of RoundCube that I am presently using. Most of these clients are passable, but none seem to offer many of the mail features that Gmail does. I am a bit surprised, but then again, maybe that is why Gmail got to be so popular.
—Ken
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 5, 2015 at 11:15 AM
Yes, you’re probably right – it may well be RoundCube. The OpenXchange client is much nicer, but does cost more.
Of course there are some rather attractive free online webmail services (such as mail2web.com), but just how ‘safe’ they are is not something I could possibly comment on. It might be worth doing some searching for services plus, of course, relevant user reviews…
And of course there’s always the chance that some of them are the equivalent of nsa-r-us.com, or indeed gchq-r-us.co.uk… just saying!
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 5, 2015 at 11:22 AM
Mind you, 1&1 also offer an ultra-cheap ‘Instant Mail’ service using what appears to be their OpenXchange client. The relevant European info is at:
That gives you 5 e-mail accounts plus 2GB of space per account, plus a reasonably good-looking front end. Quite a bargain for ca. GBP 12 a year (and includes calendar and contact management).
Posted by Ken
Mar 5, 2015 at 04:10 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
Yes, you’re probably right – it may well be RoundCube. The
>OpenXchange client is much nicer, but does cost more.
>
>Of course there are some rather attractive free online webmail services
>(such as mail2web.com), but just how ‘safe’ they are is not something I
>could possibly comment on. It might be worth doing some searching for
>services plus, of course, relevant user reviews…
Hi Bill,
The more I search, the more I suspect that RoundCube may be among the better web clients. And I either forgot, or did not know, about mail2web. I will have to do a bit more research on them.
—Ken
Posted by Steve
Mar 6, 2015 at 12:25 PM
Check out Zoho Mail at https://www.zoho.com/mail/
Not very pretty interface. Lots of “modules” you can add (many free for limited use), spam filter is quite good.
Steve