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

[Rick Romero]

Are you sure the CPU is pegged from CPU and not disk I/O?  I used to  
import 160GB of InnoDB data on a quad core (U320/RAID 10) and after  
the cache would fill up, only 1 core would show as pegged because the  
disk I/O wasn't fast enough.  Seems like the index on 10k messages  
might be kinda big.  Got more RAM lying around?  Just a guess.

I like Horde (extendability) and Roundcube (speed), and would  
recommend using imapproxy for either webmail system.  It helps speed  
things up.

Rick

Quoting "Stan Hoeppner" <stan at hardwarefreak.com>:

> 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
>
>