[aklug] Re: Recommended MDA and Webmail interface to replace Gmail

From: Jason McEachen <jason@brightshinyobject.com>
Date: Tue Jan 15 2013 - 14:43:29 AKST

I always liked roundcube for webmail (http://roundcube.net/). Seemed to
always "just work" and have lots of nice ajaxy features to keep things
running smoothly without constant page jumps. Wasn't necessarily as
backwards compatible (old IEs) as horde, but that's ajax for ya...

--Jason

On 01/16/2013 09:35 AM, barsalou wrote:
> I've used horde over the years and I think there is even a "packaged"
> version of it now.
>
> If you decide to use it and have any problems, I'd be happy to help out.
>
> Also, Ubuntu has packages for it...although not currently at the
> latest security release, at least it would be installed so you can see
> how it works.
>
> Mike B.
>
> Quoting Damien Hull <dhull@section9.us>:
>
>> David,
>>
>> I tried hosting my own email. It turned out to be more work than I
>> thought. I wasn't able to provide the correct resources. That was my
>> biggest problem.
>>
>> I was a big fan of zabbix. This is a complete email system with a web
>> interface. I think vmware owns it now. There was a free open source
>> version. This was the best solution I could find.
>>
>> The down side to zabbix was that it crashed a lot. For no reason at
>> all the system would fall over and die. This might have changed. I hope.
>>
>> That's my 2 cents.
>>
>>
>> Sent via the Samsung Galaxy NoteŽ II, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: "David M. Syzdek" <david@syzdek.net>
>> Date: 01/14/2013 10:55 AM (GMT-09:00)
>> To: Alaska Linux Users Group <AKLUG@aklug.org>
>> Subject: [aklug] Recommended MDA and Webmail interface to replace Gmail
>>
>> HI AKLUG,
>>
>> Over the last few years I've grown to be a lazy mail administrator
>> (if I'd even qualify for that title at this point) and have been
>> handing e-mail hosting for my domains to Google Apps. However, now
>> that Google Apps is no longer free for new signups, I need to put
>> together my own solution for a handful of new domains. I plan on
>> using Sendmail for the MTA, Dovecot for the MDA, and OpenLDAP to
>> store the users' credentials. I am, however, very weak in the area of
>> open source web mail systems.
>>
>> Do any of you have any recommendations for an Open Source web mail
>> interface? Preferably one which can use IMAPv4 keywords/tags to
>> create a Gmail like label interface.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David M. Syzdek
>
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