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

Patrick Domack patrickdk at patrickdk.com
Tue Jan 5 02:56:45 EET 2010


I also like horde, but I will say it's not exactly an easy learning  
curve for most people. The new dimp client makes things easier, while  
losing lots of features.

For simple, and easy to install roundcube is the way to go. If you  
want max power from a webmail package, defently horde.

Quoting Spyros Tsiolis <stsiol at yahoo.co.uk>:

> 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
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