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RoundCube Webmail hacks

I had installed the RoundCube Webmail client on my webserver because the webmail clients (OpenWebMail and CONFIXX Webmail) aren’t so nice.

RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It requires at least PHP4 with a SQL Engine like MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite. The user interface is fully skinnable using XHTML and CSS 2. It’s a very nice AJAX powered webmail client. But there is one minus. RoundCube doesn’t get new e-mails automaticly. And so the session will die after 10 minutes.

I’ve added a JavaScript code in the header of the mail.html template which “presses” the button to get new mails every 5 Minutes. To add this hack to your RoundCube installation follow these commands.

1. Open the mail.html template under roundcuberoot/skins/default/templates to edit.
2. Put after the 6th line the following code:
   <script type="text/javascript">
               function checkNewMails() {
                 rcmail.command(‘checkmail’,”,this);
               }
              window.setInterval("checkNewMails()", 300*1000);
              </script>
3. Save the file

You have to make this changes in your RoundCube installation directory.