[Dovecot] [OT] Webmail Recommendation

[Aria Stewart]

On Jan 11, 2008, at 4:50 AM, Chris Wakelin wrote:

> Charles Marcus wrote:
>> On 1/10/2008, Timo Sirainen (tss at iki.fi) wrote:
>>> No-one mentioned WebAlpine yet, which also uses persistent  
>>> connections. I haven't tried it myself though.
>> I though this is what imapproxy did for webmail? We only have one  
>> or two people who actually use ours (Squirrelmail), so it isn't an  
>> issue on our dual opteron server, but I've thought about installing  
>> it anyway...
>
> Last time I looked at it, imapproxy cached authentication (but so  
> can Dovecot!) but not SELECTs (i.e. opening a mailbox), which is why  
> I wondered how useful it would be.

It's not all its cracked up to be. Honestly, a webmail client that  
truly takes advantage of IMAP's features is a stronger win.