Experience with dovecot mail server/roundcube web mail client

Question

I'm currently building a web server with a mail server:

• Debian Lenny
• Apache 2.2
• PHP 5.3
• Dovecot
• Postfix

I am unsure of which mail client to use. I have my eye on roundcube since it looks cooler than squirrel mail.

• But is roundcube stable?
• What is your experience?
• Do you got any alternatives?

Answer 1

I have extensive experience with squirrel mail but adopted round cube about a year ago. I like it much, much more. It's easier to set up and create extensions for. I use it in the following environment:

• Ubuntu Server
• Apache2
• Php5
• Dovecot
• Postfix
• Mysql

I have it set up to work with postfix and mysql so that I don't need to create real users on my server. They are all virtual. RoundCube let's my users easily choose which domain that they need to access.

My biggest peeve with RoundCube is that (at least the version I have install) it doesn't support updating passwords. I have to use postfixadmin for that.

Answer 2

Love roundcube! The only thing that's missing from it is PGP/GPG support.

It's stable, fast, works very well with dovecot, etc.

Answer 3

I've also switched from Squirrel to RoundCube for my personal domain. From an admin point of view it's six of one and half dozen of the other. From a user point of view RoundCube is a whole lot nicer to use.

Answer 4

To preface this - I'm a bit of a minimalist but I prefer Squirrelmail despite it being ugly, it scales well has some nice backend options; I've never had any problems with it. I've played around with RoundCube but it tends to be too buggy for me.

Theres Horde and a few more obscure webmail MTAs or you can always use something like Zimbra.