[CentOS] Recommendations for webmail client on EL8

Mon Mar 1 14:58:06 UTC 2021
Christopher Wensink <cwensink at five-star-plastics.com>

Has anyone tried the NextCloud Mail client?  The UI looks pretty nice, 
but I have not played with it: https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/mail

Chris

On 3/1/2021 8:47 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>> Hi Simon, we used to use Squirrelmail also, but have since migrated to
>> RoundCube. It's easy enough to install on a CentOS 7 server (we don't
>> use EL8) by downloading directly from the Roundcube website and
>> following the installation instructions. The interface is clean, modern,
>> and the project gets frequent updates. Updates have been mostly
>> painless, but they can overwrite some of the customizations one might
>> have made so that is a pain (mostly any CSS customizations or changes to
>> the default .htaccess file which relates to PHP upload size).
>>
>> I don't recall needing any hard to find RPMs - we generally don't stray
>> further than what is available via the CentOS repositories or EPEL.
> Well, I know it's not a problem on EL7 but I'd like to upgrade to
> something which is a bit more future proof. There's even a roundcube
> package in EPEL7 but none in EPEL8, and I guess I know why :-)
>
> Seems quite difficult to do this on EL8:
> https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/wiki/Install-Requirements
>
> Simon
>
>> --Blake
>>
>> On 3/1/2021 7:57 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm still trying to find solutions to replace some aging EL6 and EL7
>>> systems.
>>>
>>> This time I'm looking at email. Postfix and Cyrus-IMAPd are not a
>>> problem
>>> and also additional things like DKIM are fine. However, I'm wondering
>>> what
>>> to use to replace good old squirrelmail with.
>>>
>>> We had a heavily patched squirrelmail with lots of nice things like
>>> avelsieve plugin. Since squirrelmail is dead and unable to run on newer
>>> PHP, I'd like to use some other tool instead.
>>>
>>> I was looking at Roundcube but it seems difficult on EL8 because a lot
>>> of
>>> PHP stuff is missing and not available as RPMs. I guess the same is true
>>> for the python things needed for Mailpile. In the end my list only
>>> contains Cypht, Rainloop and Afterlogic Webmail lite.
>>>
>>> Is there anybody running webmail on EL8? Can you make a recommendation
>>> on
>>> a certain tool?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Simon
>>>
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