Christopher Wensink
2021-Mar-01 14:58 UTC
[CentOS] Recommendations for webmail client on EL8
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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- Christopher Wensink IS Administrator Five Star Plastics, Inc 1339 Continental Drive Eau Claire, WI 54701 Office: 715-831-1682 Mobile: 715-563-3112 Fax: 715-831-6075 cwensink at five-star-plastics.com www.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 > > ChrisHi 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 >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> CentOS mailing list >>>> CentOS at centos.org >>>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- > Christopher Wensink > IS Administrator > Five Star Plastics, Inc > 1339 Continental Drive > Eau Claire, WI 54701 > Office: 715-831-1682 > Mobile: 715-563-3112 > Fax: 715-831-6075 > cwensink at five-star-plastics.com > www.five-star-plastics.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >