So like many other organizations mine was finally fed up with Horde as a webmail system. They had used squirrel mail in the past and was unimpressed by the graphical interface but admitted that it while it lacked glamour it always did perform as they would have expected. Before I had started there their mail system was running on a Linux box using Plesk and running Horde as their primary webmail interface. Immediately I got them into an XServe running OSX mail since their entire organization consisted of Apple iMacs figured it was the way to go, and got them setup with Squirrelmail and Roundcube.

I found Roundcube to be extremely easy to setup, however sort of hard to configure and tweak for use on an OSX Server. The biggest drawback to the old mail system was that while everyone had email accounts they were local accounts meaning their was no LDAP database at work so there was no way to have an auto complete or global LDAP address book Read more..