As someone who has been using the command line (okay, on and off) since before DOS, and who started using email more than 25 years ago (long before webmail), and who has used Pine, and Eudora, and squirrelmail as their primary email client at some point or another, I would think that I could wrap my head around this… But I just can’t.
Squirrelmail seems to be disappearing, which is what I’ve used for email for years. Bluehost is throwing up Horde and Roundcube as alternates and so I’ve tried both, but don’t like either of them.
Looking at Horde today reminds me of something that I think of every time I see it. Something that really bothers me and makes the program basically unusable.
In Squirrlemail, and in common sense as far as I am concerned, when you go into your inbox the newest message is right there at the top and, as you go down the list, the messages get older, hopping onto other pages the further back you go. So if you have 102 emails in your inbox, and you are set to view 50 messages per page, the first page will show you the fifty most recent, going newest down. With 50 more messages on page two and then the last two, oldest, messages on page three.
However, in Horde, they’re backwards. In two ways… The “50 per page” starts at the end. So opening your inbox will show you the two newest messages, then pages two and three will each have 50. How the hell does it make sense for the opening page of your mailbox to show you only two messages when you have 102?
Secondly, those messages are listed oldest first, so the newest message will be at the bottom of your view, not the top.
I know it doesn’t sound terrible, but going into an inbox with 102 messages, I always expect to see the 50 newest messages, with the newest one at the top. Seeing only two messages with the oldest (of those two) at the top just seems weird.
Maybe it’s related to that old forum thing where your response to a thread goes at the bottom of a thread instead of the top , I don’t know. But I’ve always found that to be annoying as well.
Anyway, this makes Horde basically unusable to me. Maybe I’m just doing the settings wrong? I don’t know, I’ve tried messing with them, but that never comes to a satisfactory conclusion.
Also, there is this weird thing where if you select a message in Horde and click delete, it strikes the message out, but it still stays there sitting in your inbox. If you select a message in Squirrlemail and hit delete, it goes to the trash and no longer sits in your inbox. So delete in Horde isn’t actually sending it to the trash, it’s marking it to be send to the trash. While delete in Squirrelmail actually just sends it to the trash (including messages that have been “marked for deletion” in horde). Generally, if I hit delete it means I want the message deleted, not that I want to see it still sitting there with a line through it.
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