Migrating to dovecot from gmail apps

[Phil Lello]

Hi,

I'm considering migrating away from gmail for my (one-man) company, and I'm
trying to decide if dovecot is the right option (I'm committed to
self-hosting). I'm a developer, so happy to do my own tooling if needed.

*Is there currently a good webmail interface to dovecot, or work-in
progress?* If not, would a web interface be out-of-scope for dovecot? I
want to use SAML for authentication, so a solution that relies on POP/IMAP
doesn't meet my needs - unless I add Kerberos into the mix, which is an
additional learning curve, and possibly not widely supported.

*Is there currently a good web admin interface to dovecot, or
work-in-progress?* If not, would a web interface be out-of-scope? Since I
prefer using password-protected SSH keys for shell access, and don't want
to tie myself to a laptop (and would hate to use vim on a 3G/4G tablet),
I'd like to be able to add/remove aliases and play with SIEVE and ACLs
through any available browser.

*How's the work on sharing messages between folders progressing?*

Finally, and I hope you don't mind me asking, are you aware of a good JAVA
based alternative to dovecot? I quite like the idea of using lucene
indexing on mailboxes, so reducing the number of dependencies has a certain
appeal.

Best wishes,

Phil Lello