Host Gator announced it is offering RoundCube webmail with all its shared and reseller hosting accounts. There is no charge for the service.

RoundCube is a modern and feature-rich webmail application built on Ajax technology for enhanced interactivity. The application has a very sleek design and user-friendly interface that customers will appreciate and have little difficulty using.

"E-mail is still the number one activity online and web hosting customers are no exception," stated Brent Oxley, Founder and President of Host Gator. "We are always looking for ways to enhance our services for our customers and RoundCube webmail brings the best e-mail experience possible to our customers."

Features of RoundCube include spell checking, message and contact list search, multiple sender identities, multi-language support, unlimited users and messages, built-in caching for accelerated mailbox access, custom message folders and more.

RoundCube is an open source project, released under the GNU General Public License.

"Host Gator is a strong supporter of the open source community and we are always looking to bring the best open source projects to our customers," stated Oxley. "Open source applications are always improving because they are in constant development and best of all they are under public license, helping us keep costs down for our customers."