File manager or browser for IMAP?

Nikolai Lusan
2019-09-24T12:51:30Z

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On Mon, 2019-09-23 at 18:14 -0400, Steve Litt via dovecot
wrote:
> I could really use a file manager or browser to browse my Dovecot IMAP.
> Ideally it would have hotkeys to move, copy, delete and send. The send
> part needn't be coded: Just a call to a shellscript which can handle
> the send the way it's locally the most convenient.
>
> Anyone know of such a file manager or browser for IMAP?

For *nix machines from CLI you can use Alpine or Mutt. From a GUI there are
plenty to choose from - I use Evolution, but Thunderbird, KMail, Claws
Mail, Balsa (I could go on and on, there are dozens) are all usable. With
larger mail stores you probably only want to do a full sync of every
message in the mail store, just the folders and message headers should be
enough, make sure you take the time to configure the MUA properly. Mostly
the choice of desktop MUA is down to user preference for things like "look
and feel", threading behaviour. Most MUA's don't have support for
sieve/managesieve, and I did once get caught out trying to use the Claws
managesieve interface ... apparently it can't handle nested match
configurations and my sieve script is heavily nested to reduce match time
for lists and other things. I would recommend trying a few and seeing what
works for you. My personal preference is Evolution, because it has decent
threading and supports my caldav/carddav server out of the box (It's
basically a dropin replacement for what MS Outlook does on Windows
machines).

Another option is a webmail interface - I use Roundcube, but Horde is
another php based one, there is perl webmail interface called CiderWebmail.
Running a webmail interface on the same machine as the dovecot instance
makes it quick and responsive. Again the choice comes down to what features
you want, and what you a willing to run on the server.

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Nikolai Lusan <nikolai at lusan.id.au>
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