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admin · Site Admin Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 210

OK, I'm not a Runbox user, although I used to be. I am both a Fastmail and Tuffmail user. Tuffmail is my primary account.

Tuffmail use both Squirrel Mail and Horde. (Let me just say that the Horde installation on Tuffmail is by far and away the most feature-rich webmail client on the web. Nothing comes close. You may not like the style or manner of implementation, but on mere features it blows everything else away.)

It occurred to me that both Fastmail and Runbox are attempting to reinvent the webmail wheel, and not doing a great job. Webmail development is clearly a resource drain, and its complexity introduces numerous bugs and problems during the "incremental" development. Fastmail has suffered from this particularly in recent weeks. Not a week goes by when a tweak of the interface breaks something for the users.

Tuffmail are one of the most reliable and stable email providers around. Why? Because they leave webmail development to the webmail developers, and pour their resources and expertise into creating and maintaning the email service itself.

Both Fastmail and Runbox have shown that webmail development is agonizingly slow. So, I am all for importing a third-party webmail, which I think will help to deliver a well-designed, well-run Runbox email architecture.

Why reinvent the webmail wheel - unless you really, truthfully can do a better job, without it taking 2-3 years.

Just my own thoughts.