Distribution Lists

[jjhunt]

I am currently testing RoundCube v0.1.1.  I'm working on upgrading to 0.2.stable with suphp.  My question is regarding a feature our campus users would like to see, which is the ability for a user to setup a mailing/distribution list.  Then they can simply type in their list name on the To: line, and the mail is sent to several recipients.  As I understand it RoundCube doesn't currently have that ability.  Does anyone know if that is in 0.2.stable?  Or will it be included in a future release or available as a plugin?  I'd be curious to hear how others are handling this basic need.  

Thanks much!
Jackie Hunt
Colorado State University

[rosali]

No, this feature is not in 0.2stable. I do not think that there are plans to include in a later distribution. I'm not a member of the dev crew, so I do not know their plans.

IMO, Distribution lists should be managed by the IMAP server.

Nethertheless it should be possible to hack the RoundCube addressbook code to accept a comma separated string of a sequence of email addresses in the Email field.

Perhaps I will code a plugin for MyRoundCube: MyRoundCube - RoundCube Webmail Forum

[jjhunt]

Thanks so much for your response.  I'm not familiar with how an IMAP server would handle a distribution list.  We are using Dovecot, and I'm not aware of any feature like that.  It seems like each user would like to be able to setup personal mailing lists, so I'm surprised it's not a feature in RoundCube.

Thanks,
Jackie

[rosali]

Yes, that's the point. You don't know how to handle it on Dovecot... well, how RoundCube should be able to?

RoundCube is disigned to play nice with any IMAP server backend by standard IMAP Protocol, just like a desktop client like Thunderbird, OE, etc.

So you can't expect those features in RoundCube. V0.3 branche will have a plugin API to implement backend specific code easily without hacking the source code - if some volunteers will code and share of course!

Sorry, no better news.

[dano]

I think that mailing list is the wrong phrase here as that is something that would be handled by the likes of PHPlist and Mailman.

I believe that the phrase here is contact groups.  Where you group your contacts into things like 'engineering' and 'sales'.  I would agree that this would be a great feature although it is not currently part of RC.  I am sure that we will see a plugin at some point though

[JohnDoh]

contact groups are on the list for version 0.4 Milestone 0.4-beta ? RoundCube Webmail ? Trac

[jjhunt]

Thanks for the response JohnDoe and dano!  That's what I needed.  We do refer to them as user-defined mailing lists.  Sorry if I caused any confusion with my vocabulary.  I'll refer to them as contact groups from now on, and look for them in v0.4.  

Jackie