[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

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: dovecot-bounces+egbert=vandenbussche.nl at dovecot.org 
> [mailto:dovecot-bounces+egbert=vandenbussche.nl at dovecot.org] 
> 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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