crossbox.io
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It looks like at least one established Australian company is using the software. 0 -
But you LOVE being the guinea pig! 0 -
But you LOVE being the guinea pig!
Really? Do you have to give away all of my secrets?? Lol0 -
So nobody eh? I was really hoping this thing actually did what it's advertised to do. :( 0 -
So I jumped off the cliff and installed it. :eek: I only bought the web based email so far (they have a whole bunch of add on options), but I want to see how it works first. I'm just using it on my email, I haven't given it to a client yet. This is my day one report: The interesting... I got a ton of lfd excessive recourse use emails, like well over a hundred of them since I installed it last night! They also did a system update last night, so that probably didn't help much. Today, it has settled down dramatically. Hardly any since this morning. Phew. What I'm really disappointed about it, it won't alphabetize my folders. In my case, I have two main folders, Venders and Clients, and a ton of folders under those two main ones. I asked them about this, and they said the sever won't alphabetize them. I told them pretty much every other email client does! Hopefully they will make it a feature request. I'm also a little disappointed it didn't import my email contacts. They had a SSH command to do that, but it didn't seem to work. I have an open ticket on that one. What I do like... The dark mode makes my Stared emails stand out like a sore thumb. LOVE THAT!!!!!!!!! When you are looking at an email, you can schedule a reminder to do something right inside the email. Very handy. You can set a "purge" timer on each and every folder. Every folder can have a different purge date. You can color every folder and add an icon to it. The have twenty different built in templates for a signature. When you have your profile info filled it, the templates will import parts of your profile. You can easily edit the rest. When looking at any folder, the initial view is full width, and you see just the header. When you click and email, it auto splits the screen, half emails, half just the email you're looking at. At first it's annoying, but I can see that i will easily get used to it. Audio notification volume and dark mode switches are where you can get to them easily. You can switch accounts easily too. I looked at my CPU and memory usage, they don't seem to have increased much at all. I spoke too soon... As I am typing this, I just got a whole bunch more lfd excessive recourse emails! lol I may have to make a ticket on this? I'm gonna wait and see if they settle down more though. This happened when I first went live with my sever as well. So anyway... I'm still nervous about what's going on behind the scenes, but what's there, seems to be working fairly well. I'll keep you guys updated as I go along, signed... The Guinea Pig :-p 0 -
That's a great review. Don't worry too much about the LFD notifications you mentioned. You can disable them for certain processes or turn them off completely. 0 -
That's a great review. Don't worry too much about the LFD notifications you mentioned. You can disable them for certain processes or turn them off completely.
They told me to just disable them for Crossbox. You don't think I have to worry about stuff like this?? Time: Fri Apr 2 18:05:07 2021 -0700 Account: crossboxnginx Resource: Process Time Exceeded: 248416 > 1800 (seconds) Executable: /home/crossbox/app/third_party/nginx/sbin/nginx Command Line: nginx: worker process PID: 118363 (Parent PID:118362) Killed: No0 -
Yes, you can go ahead and disable those alerts. 0 -
By default, CSF thinks anything running longer than 1800 seconds under a user account is scary, but that specific process will likely need to run forever, so it's fine to disable that notification. 0 -
Thanks guys. They are definitely scary to me! 0 -
So another thing I just found out about that so far I think I like? lol There is one log in point, for every account/domain on my server! I created a sub domain, and had that sub domain redirect to it. This should be MUCH easier for clients to remember, rather than /webmail or /rainloop. mail.mydomainname.com Seem good to you guys?? -Joe 0 -
I've been looking for a more robust alternative to cPanel's webmail for several years, on and off. I happened to stumble across a link to Crossbox a few weeks ago, I played with the demo and was very impressed. I've been testing Crossbox out on our server since that day (email and file management, I haven't added chat yet), and interacted a bunch with Crossbox support. The short review -- I'm extremely happy, both with the software and with the level of support, to the extent that I'm using Crossbox instead of Thunderbird or Outlook for my computer email, and using the app instead of the wonderful Bluemail on my Android phone. In terms of support, the installation was very easy but I had one issue that they logged in right away to fix (you just enter crossbox ssh grant in the command line to give them access, and they switch access off after they're done), then all the emails were working with it except mine - turns out whatever email you enter when you install Crossbox can't be used for email because it's used for administration. I changed the admin email and it's been working great. You can also pay them to install it. My email is about 7 gigs so it's a good testing ground for speed and reliability -- everything worked very fast and very smoothly. The interface is very nice and easy to use. The webmail and app have identical features. Integration with cPanel is perfect, it just shows up as one of the webmail options. It adds a Communication section to cPanel Screenshot There are tons of very thoughtful features like delayed and scheduled sending, snoozing/reminders for incoming emails to answer later, huge attachments which use the file management for anything over 25MB (defaults to 1 gig but you can set it higher), canned responses, email health indicators for incoming spam/scam email, neural network spam training, very good IMAP folder management, fast search, excellent incoming mail filters that run on the server so you don't have to have your email open for them to work, an import email function to move your email from another account, an import contacts function that works with VCF files, intelligent image blocking much better than Outlook or Thunderbird, an IMAP + MySQL mode that indexes your emails for faster email display and search, untrusted link warning, VERY good file preview for audio/video/docs/pdfs, very nice signature setup for HTML and text including 20 templates to start with. I haven't spent much time with the file management but it looks fine - storing, displaying, sharing of very large files. I did have some things I thought could be improved - when you upload contacts they aren't automatically indexed so they won't show when you search until you actually view them. There's a popup when you mouse over the avatar in the email list, which blocks you from selecting the email if you don't act quickly. There are notifications of unread emails that keep showing at the bottom of the screen that I would rather not have. The subject line isn't shown in the email. So I sent them feedback (there's a link right at the bottom of the nav) and got a reply in less than 24 hours agreeing with all my suggestions and saying they would implement them. How cool is that? So I'm very happy to recommend Crossbox, and extremely happy to have found it. 0 -
I've been looking for a more robust alternative to cPanel's webmail for several years, on and off. I happened to stumble across a link to Crossbox a few weeks ago, I played with the demo and was very impressed. I've been testing Crossbox out on our server since that day (email and file management, I haven't added chat yet), and interacted a bunch with Crossbox support. The short review -- I'm extremely happy, both with the software and with the level of support, to the extent that I'm using Crossbox instead of Thunderbird or Outlook for my computer email, and using the app instead of the wonderful Bluemail on my Android phone. In terms of support, the installation was very easy but I had one issue that they logged in right away to fix (you just enter crossbox ssh grant in the command line to give them access, and they switch access off after they're done), then all the emails were working with it except mine - turns out whatever email you enter when you install Crossbox can't be used for email because it's used for administration. I changed the admin email and it's been working great. You can also pay them to install it. My email is about 7 gigs so it's a good testing ground for speed and reliability -- everything worked very fast and very smoothly. The interface is very nice and easy to use. The webmail and app have identical features. Integration with cPanel is perfect, it just shows up as one of the webmail options. It adds a Communication section to cPanel
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Sorry this took so long, I didn't get a notification. The phone app is pretty much an exact duplicate of the web app. The one thing I find more annoying on the phone is the notifications that pop up at the bottom, there can be up to 3 of them and they cover too much real estate. I've asked them to have an option to switch it off, which they said they would but hasn't happened yet. You can tap on them to dismiss them. 0 -
Long term report... I just uninstalled it. Won't be going back. MS Outlook on 365 seems to be pretty solid and easy for clients to install these days, so I'm going to have everyone use that option going forward. 0 -
Long term report... I just uninstalled it. Won't be going back. MS Outlook on 365 seems to be pretty solid and easy for clients to install these days, so I'm going to have everyone use that option going forward.
just because ms outlook seems to be pretty solid. i cannot stand supporting outlook :confused: what were the longterm cons to make you uninstall it. im about to install this. we shouldnt be losing the workspace to office and gmail. this looks promising. im hoping it works out0 -
just because ms outlook seems to be pretty solid. i cannot stand supporting outlook :confused: what were the longterm cons to make you uninstall it. im about to install this. we shouldnt be losing the workspace to office and gmail. this looks promising. im hoping it works out
Beyond confusing interface. Every one of my clients i set it up for, turned it down. Tech support is AWFUL. I even stepped up for their paid support. They were Johnny on the spot at first. After they had my money, support just disappeared. I felt like a beta tester. Example: Once all the email address were imported (and one of my clients had hundreds of them) there was no way to sort through them! They expected the end user to do a search every time. Really?? I finally got them to sort them A to Z. They were all in the list randomly!!!! Yes, their advertising on there site is first class. Clearly they paid a solid marketing company for that. Their product is less than stellar though. Would have been awesome if it was user friendly and worked as advertised. :( Oh and.............................. When their updates run on your server?? Get ready for a massive slowdown!! Every time I asked them to fix something, they had to run a complete update to implement it. I highly recommend you look elsewhere, or have your clients use Outlook. SO much easier that way!!!0
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