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Friendly gui for mail?
Does anyone recommend an easy to use gui for email? Currently on purelymail and their roudncube interface isn't great - search is painfully slow and the gui could use a lick of paint. Want to self host - is there anything you'd recommend? Currently looking at…
Does anyone recommend an easy to use gui for email? Currently on purelymail and their roudncube interface isn't great - search is painfully slow and the gui could use a lick of paint. Want to self host - is there anything you'd recommend? Currently looking at mailpile, snappymail etc. all don't seem to be actively maintained though
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Thanks. I looked at sogo too. Modern. A little too heavy for my tiny lab
Looks good. Will give it a try!
Just found it! Do you archive emails separately or just backup from Mailflow?
Not quite. There ist: https://github.com/bulwarkmail/webmail And i meant: https://github.com/root-fr/jmap-webmail However i did Not Check If a fork or affiliated.
I run Mail Archiver next to Mailflow
https://mailflow.sh/
Does it work with Gmail and other Mail companies or do you need to run your own mail server with it?
the person below is right that roundcube itself isn't doing the searching, it just sends an IMAP SEARCH and waits. so slow search is almost always the mailbox side having no full-text index, noyeah this is it exactly. slow search is almost always the mailbox side having no full-text index, not the webclient being bad. dovecot has fts plugins (xapian or flatcurve are the current ones, solr's more setup than it's worth for a small mailbox) that index the mail store and make search near instant regardless of which gui sits in front of it. OP's on purelymail though so they've got no control over that, it's on the provider not them. worth asking their support if they index at all, otherwise you could swap guis forever and search stays slow because the bottleneck was never the gui to begin witht the webclient being bad. dovecot has fts plugins (xapian or flatcurve are the current ones, solr is more setup than it's worth for a small mailbox) that index the mail store and make search near instant regardless of which gui sits in front of it. problem is you're on purelymail so you've got no control over that, it's on them not you. worth asking their support if they index at all, otherwise you could swap guis forever and search stays slow because the bottleneck was never the gui
You can configure jmap for your iwn stalwart server or smtp and imap for any other mail provider.
What about Mailflow?
That's bulwark. I use stalwart as mailserver and bulwark as my web based mail client with jmap support 👍
Which mailflow? .cc .sh or .io ? The .sh one Looks very vibe voded with starting in Version 1.9.0 in April...
I think you already have Most on your list, only sogo is Missing . And honorable mention would be "jmap-webmail" IF your Mailserver Supports JMAP protocol.
I am using Mailflow and and I REALLY like it so far!
Mailcow?
Take a look at bulwark, a web based mail client.
Mailflow
AFAIK roundcube uses the server to search, it doesn't search itself. So if the server is slow then any mail app you use will have this problem. You may want to look for an app that indexes messages locally.
I recently set up Cypht Seems to work quite well! https://www.cypht.org/