Manage multiple IMAP accounts from 1 interface

[rcubetrac]

Reported by sanchez on 13 Oct 2006 12:08 UTC as Trac ticket #1484075

I'm using mozilla thunderbird for IMAP access to about 5 email account and I like it to keep it separate because of transparency, different nature of emails etc. anyway have lot reasons not to resend it to one general mailbox. Therefore it would be perfect to have lightweight online IMAP client to check for mails on all my mailboxes simultaneously..

I think that implementing this feature would require a little redesign of core concept, but would bring excelent functionality for people like me..

Keywords: multi-account mailboxes simultaneously Migrated-From: http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1484075

[WindowsAndLinux]

@magenbrot You might be partially right; but I think you misunderstood me, I didn't say on different servers, I said specifically, that ON THE SAME SERVER. So I create a cpanel account whm as "mainuser". That is also an e-mail account, that can be accessed as user "mainuser@... " and the password. Then I create 2 users, for the sake of this argument/question, "user1@..." and "user2@...". What I want is only log in as "mainuser" and be able to subscribe to the folders of "user1" and "user2". Is this the "shared folder" scenario and dovecot you mentioned above ?

[magenbrot]

@WindowsAndLinux this is exactly what I meant. This has nothing to do with roundcube as it's a feature of the IMAP-server underneath. I don't know about cpanel, but if it uses dovecot with ACL it should be possible to share IMAP-folders.

[WindowsAndLinux]

@magenbrot Thank you very much for your answer.

[Goddard]

+1

[Hotdiggiddy]

So this discussion has been going on for 11 years and no progress. Perhaps no desire on RoundCube's part.

[cberian]

I am changing ISPs and I need a way to allow my users import all their messages into their new webmail (RC) accounts. This would be the perfect solution. Gmail and Yahoo have this functionality.

[rkkoszewski]

No news on this feature? Any comment on this from the developers? Is development frozen?

[alecpl]

Development is not frozen, but indeed this feature is not high on my todo list.

[YAMLcase]

badly needed feature. One app/website/client to rule them all, and only one place to change passwords

[fox4ua]

+1

[schwim0341]

I'll +1 a decade old request. I'm sure it will get picked up any day now.

[barryhughes]

+1 ... this would be a fantastic addition

[heinrichmartin]

Are all the +1ers intentionally keeping the notification rate high for all watchers? Or just not aware of how to support tickets with reactions?

[wwwmail]

+1

[roberthr74]

+1

[r7l]

Just installed Roundcube and while it is great, i was looking for this feature right away. Sad to see it with such low priority. It would be awesome to see it happen some time soon!

[ale82x]

+1 me too

thank you

[infsy]

If you want to have a look about what it could be try the Rainloop project !

[gianlucagiacometti]

@insfy Is it really appropriate that you advertise your business product here?

[schwim0341]

@gianlucagiacometti I appreciate someone offering an alternative in a 12 year old request thread that Roundcube has chosen to deem unimportant.

[mmmaxi]

+1

[fulljackz]

Really interesting by this feature too !

[phoenixz]

In 2018, I'd think that being able to manage multiple IMAP accounts in an email interface would be a basic feature...

[rkkoszewski]

Maybe tackling this problem form a Session perspective would make it easier to implement multiple IMAP accounts. Just like they do in GMail where you can be logged in in multiple accounts (Or have delegated accounts) and easily switch between them from the top menu, allowing you to see the mailbox of the currently selected account without having to relogin each time.

This would involve redesigning the session management in Roundcube (And UI) instead of the whole core mailing system that Roundcube is based on.

EDIT: This seems to actually exist already as a plugin: https://plugins.roundcube.net/packages/boressoft/ident_switch

[mortebrume]

Well it seems that the plugin isn't maintained anymore, and doesn't work with the new versions / beta.

Perhaps I missed something but this feature is still isn't yet available and it would be very great to have it, it's probably the only thing that prevent me to make a full roundcube switch.

[mikch06]

Sorry, but isn't the current release from 2018-08-27 21:24 UTC ?? I think it is maintained or am i wrong?

[baerengraben]

+1: This integrated in the newest Roundcube-Versions would be awesome! For now I'm using the mentioned Plugin "https://plugins.roundcube.net/packages/boressoft/ident_switch". But with roundcube version 1.1.x. I didn't knew that there is now a Version for 1.3.x => This is good news! :) But still it would be better to have this feature fully integrated in Roundcube.

[cynicer]

+1

[marcozeus]

+1 I agree with @baerengraben

[jpVm5jYYRE1VIKL]

13 years passed since this feature was requested. Without this feature Roundcube don`t have any benefits over millions another single mailbox clients.

[nekromoff]

This should be closed, if the feature is not planned at all or developers should comment on the status otherwise.

[alecpl]

This is most wanted feature, I agree, but it is not most wanted by my employer. So, I don't give it a high priority. At the same time this is not a simple feature to implement. So, maybe some day someone..., but the ticket should not be closed.

[athompso]

FWIW, my use case for this is something I haven't seen mentioned here: I want to be able to move messages from folders in one account/server to a folder on a different account/server. I often get messages sent by accident to the wrong address, and doing this in Outlook/Thunderbird is how I get the message, as-is, from point A to point B. (Especially since GMail doesn't seem to have a way to attach an email without modifying it.)

[HighlyFavoredBA]

I'm at least 1000% in favor of adding the (multiple IMAP accounts) Feature! Thanks! :--)

[jpassano]

Is this feature one of roundcube? Or one of dovecot?I have just begun to work with dovecot and roundcube but it seems to be possible to synchronize the dovecot servers.

[albertvisuals]

Sad to see that this is not supported in 2020. I would love to use RoundCube, but without the possibility to add multiple IMAP accounts with one login it's useless for me.

[chcolin]

Hi guys, I found two plugins that could be integrated: ident_switch and ISPconfig

[HighlyFavoredBA]

@Chcolin When I went ISPconfig page, it looked like ISPconfig is a control panel for internet sites. I have long used cPanel.

I uploaded (ident_switch) in the RC plugins directory, added (ident_switch) to the config plugins list, and updated (composer.json) with "roundcube/plugin-installer": ">=1.4.3", and "min-version": "1.4.3", but I don't see that plugin in the Identities area. Any suggestions? :--)

[chcolin]

@HighlyFavoredBA Yep, you need to install IPConfig panel first in order to use its Rouncube plugin.

For ident_swift plugin, maybe your $config['identities_level'] is not set to 0 - multiple identities with possibility to edit all parameters

[HighlyFavoredBA]

@Chcolin I know now that when I click Create, (ident_switch) shows up under the Signature.

What does [ident_switch.form.imap.delimiter] mean.

It would be great to create IMAP accounts from an Admin area! :--)

[HighlyFavoredBA]

@chcolin I created a 2nd Identity from a different server, and it sends Emails from that. But the IMAP area stays turned off, after I turn it on, and add details. :--)

[HighlyFavoredBA]

And I noticed that shows up in sent Email. So I changed that file to . :--)

[chcolin]

@HighlyFavoredBA I think [ident switch.form.imap.delimiter] is about how imap folders are organised. Btw, if you have issues follow up owner and users answers or report yours.

[HighlyFavoredBA]

@chcolin Thanks! :--)

[Master0ne]

Wow, that's a show-stopper for us! And I was so convinced, that we had multiple email accounts visible in the same browser tab when working with Roundcube around 10 years ago (I guess it was just configured with multiple identities instead).

My problem is, that we have multiple IMAP accounts, each with its own SMTP account, so using a workaround with multiple identities and/or shared folders does not work, because multiple identities only work within the same email domain, as each email domain has to use its own SMTP account for sending.

A plugin like ident_switch also does not help, because I don't want to be able to just switch accounts, I need to have them visible all at once (to see if any account has received new emails at a glance).

This is something that can not be solved by a plugin, but has to be a core functionality (which brings up the other problem with horribly outdated plugins, like identity_smtp last being worked on almost 3 years ago)!

I know that this is the wrong place to ask, but what would be a viable alternative to Roundcube that has that functionality (multiple IMAP accounts + multiple identities + multiple SMTP accounts) and maybe an additional combined Inbox, to have all new emails for all accounts in a single folder view (a clear convenience feature, but not a must-have)?

[YaegerDesign]

I know that this is the wrong place to ask, but what would be a viable alternative to Roundcube that has that functionality (multiple IMAP accounts + multiple identities + multiple SMTP accounts) and maybe an additional combined Inbox, to have all new emails for all accounts in a single folder view (a clear convenience feature, but not a must-have)?

Outlook

[Master0ne]

Outlook

Yeah, not gonna happen! :unamused:

I'm currently looking into Cypht because nothing else seems to come to mind at all.

[rodrigoaguilera]

Nexcloud mail is the alternative that I am using right now

[Master0ne]

Nexcloud mail is the alternative that I am using right now

I have that in use as well, but it is very inflexible due to missing multiple identities per email account and is still in an early stage.

One of the problems I am facing connected to multiple identities per email account is that I always need two different signatures per email address (in two different languages).

[zaphbbrox]

Normally I wouldn't make advertisements for similar projects, but since this issue hasn't been updated for some time: Checkout Rainloop for multiple account support. Using it for some time and I'm very pleased with this webmail solution.

Taken from their website:

FEATURES Modern user interface. Complete support of IMAP and SMTP protocols including SSL and STARTTLS. Sieve scripts (Filters and vacation message). Minimalistic resources requirements. Direct access to mail server is used (mails are not stored locally on web server). Allows for adding multiple accounts to primary one, simultaneous access to different accounts in different browser tabs is supported. Additional identities. Administrative panel for configuring main options. Really simple installation and update. Integration with Facebook, Google, Twitter and Dropbox. Managing folders list. Simple look'n'feel customization. Configurable multi-level caching system. Extending functionality with plugins installed through admin panel. Perfect rendering of complex HTML mails. Drag'n'drop for mails and attachments. Keyboard shortcuts support. Autocompletion of e-mail addresses.