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Offline rs232

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webdisk
« on: January 21, 2016, 05:30:47 AM »
I am (sadly) moving away from openwebmail after 15 glorious years since the developement appears to have stopped in August 2014.
I have evaluated different webmail software and can't really find anything similar to openwebmail as it does interface to the mailfile directly (no imap involvement).
Having said that I have installed RoundCube and I'm pretty impressed with it.

Before I consider moving onto it; one of the priceless feature openwebmail has is the webdrive functionality where a simple web interface allows to manage my files stored locally on the server (upload, download, rename etc) and more specifically attach/store files related to emails.

I appreciate that the current Roundcube interface is IMAP and folder management would have to go through some sort of webdav interface, I still think a storege integration (any sort of) would add great feature to the software.

The Afterlogic webmail package allows you to use some well known cloud storage for the above function (dropbox/gdrive), I do like the function but I still think that the files, since they are email related, should live on my server and privacy is only one of the reasons. Owncloud could be one way to achieve this I suppose but I'm not sure a webmail software should relay on other softwares really.

I have read about software that can use IMAP for file handling... I'm wondering if this would be an alternative way to achieve this.

Regardless, well done I like a lot the clear interface and the AJAX integration.

Thanks

Offline alec

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Re: webdisk
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2016, 06:04:06 AM »
Kolab Goupware integrates Roundcube with file storage very nicely. There's a set of components and "extracting" them for use out of Kolab server may be not simple, but possible if you're a PHP coder. Kolab also has webDAV service to access the storage.

Take a look at https://git.kolab.org/diffusion/RPK/browse/master/plugins/kolab_files/ and https://git.kolab.org/diffusion/C/.

Kolab Systems provides "Kolab as a service" at https://kolabnow.com/, you can try it for 30 days for free. Future Kolab versions will include e.g. ODF documents collaborative editing.