[Dovecot] First time Dovecot user, really impressed so far. What is best IMAP enabled webmail package to go with Dovecot?
Egbert Jan van den Bussche
egbert at vandenbussche.nl
Mon Jan 4 23:08:22 EET 2010
Welcome!
Have a look at RoundCube webmail. I used to use squirrelmail but had the
same issues as you. RoundCube is very nice.
Egbert Jan
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> Namens Stan Hoeppner
> Verzonden: maandag 4 januari 2010 22:01
> Aan: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Onderwerp: [Dovecot] First time Dovecot user, really
> impressed so far. What is best IMAP enabled webmail package
> to go with Dovecot?
>
>
> Greetings everyone,
>
> I'm new to the list as of today. I just installed Dovecot a
> couple of days ago for the first time, Debian Lenny Dovecot
> v1.0.15-2.3. So far I'm pretty impressed. I'm using mbox
> format with Dovecot auto-deciding to place mail in user home
> directories, which is great. It works very well with the
> Win32 Thunderbird 3 client over a small basic 100FDX switched
> net. I've got one list mail folder with 10,600 messages and
> server side body searching that folder via T-Bird is very
> quick, on the order of 5 seconds. It would probably be
> quicker if Dovecot threaded the search to use both CPUs, but
> pegging just the one CPU the search is still very darn quick.
> And this is on a dual P2-550 class machine with only 384MB
> RAM and a single 500GB 7200RPM SATA drive.
>
> I'd like to install a webmail package on the same host. I
> used Squirrelmail for this purpose many years ago and I
> wasn't wholly impressed with the user interface. I'm also
> not impressed by the fact that I regularly receive spam from
> compromised Squirrelmail hosts/accounts. I really like the
> look/feel of the Scalix Web Access AJAX based interface, but
> I can't/won't use Scalix as it's not supported on Debian, it
> has more features than I need, and the system requirements
> are a bit steep.
>
> So, what's the best FOSS IMAP enabled web mail front end with
> a modern look/feel? I'd like to run it on lighttpd, which
> I'm already using, not apache.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice. My apologies if my first
> post is a little OT, but I figured there's probably no better
> place to ask about the best webmail front end for Dovecot than here.
>
> --
> Stan
>
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