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On Friday, 9 April 2021 00:56:27 BST Dan Egli wrote: |
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> On 4/8/2021 5:12 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> >> I |
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> >> think I'm missing the part that I can access it with a GUI, like when I |
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> >> go to mail.google.com or something. |
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> > |
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> > Dovecot is an IMP server, it doesn't have a GUI. What you are thinking of |
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> > is a webmail *client*. That's just another client, like Thunderbird or |
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> > mutt, as far as Dovecot is concerned. There are a few webmail clients |
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> > available, I use Roundcube. |
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> It all depends on what you want. I've not used Roundcube, although I |
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> hear it's good. I've used SquirrelMail, Horde, and SOGo. I personally |
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> prefer SOGo, but it's complicated to setup. SquirrelMail is easy, but |
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> lacks a lot of features that SOGo had. Horde is kind of in the middle. |
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> The only thing I'd watch out for is that if you use SOGo, the gentoo |
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> packages are WAY out of date. The most recent SOGo package in portage is |
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> 4.3.2, but you can get the sources for 5.1.0 from the SOGO.NU website. |
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Quick clarification: |
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A webmail client is a web app, served by a webserver. Adding all these |
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packages, complication and configuration, on what otherwise remains a desktop |
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installation/use case, when the OP already uses a mail client application on |
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localhost to access his emails, makes me think it's a bit of an overkill. |
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Unless, instead of a mail client desktop application, a webmail interface is |
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preferred and the burden of configuring and maintaining so many more packages |
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is acceptable. |
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