[Dovecot] First time Dovecot user, really impressed so far. What is best IMAP enabled webmail package to go with Dovecot?

[Spyros Tsiolis]

Hi Stan,

i would suggest the (very) powerfull horde bundle of packages.
not only webmail but also reminder calendar and and many more.

http://www.horde.org

That's what i am doing these days (trying to make dovecot work with
horde that is).

HTH,

s.


--- On Mon, 4/1/10, Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com> wrote:

> From: Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com>
> Subject: [Dovecot] First time Dovecot user, really impressed so far. What is best IMAP enabled webmail package to go with Dovecot?
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Date: Monday, 4 January, 2010, 23:00
> 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
>