[CentOS] Recommendations for webmail client on EL8

Mon Mar 1 15:35:11 UTC 2021
Christopher Wensink <cwensink at five-star-plastics.com>

Per the docs, the nextcloud back end is required: 
https://github.com/nextcloud/mail#readme



On 3/1/2021 9:19 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>> 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
> Hi Chris, I have bit tried it but I'm wondering if the mail app can we
> used standalone without the nextcloud backend? And since it's based on
> Horde, I'm wondering if it's so easy to run on EL8.
>
> What IS interesting is that nextcloud itself is in EPEL8!
>
> Simon
>
>> 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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