Webmail – Three Available Interfaces
Monday, January 4th, 2016
In addition to connecting to your email account via a mail client on your computer, tablet or smartphone, you have the choice of three webmail programs from the cPanel. You can connect to the login screen for your webmail in two different ways:
- Go to http://webmail. plus your domain, or
- Login to manage your domain, open the cPanel, and click the Email accounts icon. Where each email account is listed you’ll see More on the right side. Click this and then Access Webmail.
Webmail is one of the most commonly used functions of the cPanel interface.
The Horde Project is an open-source development community that is responsible for the creation of many applications. Based on PHP, Horde developers have created not only a robust webmail interface, but also complementary widgets that range from calendars, notes, message filtering and message flagging, and powerful search tools.
RoundCube is the world’s most popular open source Webmail interface, and is the one the R4L staff recommends setting as your default. While not as feature rich as Horde, RoundCube features a modern drag-and-drop interface. RoundCube also features search tools, flagging tools to easily organize your Inbox, Sent, and other folders.
SquirrelMail is the most streamlined of the three available webmail applications. SquirrelMail does provide an address book feature, mail composition can only be done in plain text, sending email with HTML formatting is not possible with SquirrelMail.