Selfhosted e-mail webclient

[Venson]

Hey,

 

With the latest WAN show topic of Outlook vs GMail i wanted to seek a bit of help/provide a list of mail webclients I tested as an outlook replacement over the last years or so.

I aim this to be a list for others that want to move to a self-hosted alternative and for me that did not find the "right" solution yet to ask for help.

I will try to add my personal take on each one of them and what ultimately made me decide against it.

 

- Cypht

Not quite up to standard for me with the UI style. does support multiple accounts. Does have a Docker image but is not updated in over a year. The last official release is over a year ago and bugs are not regularly fixed/responded to.

- Horde: IMP - The Horde Project

Looks very old school. does support multiple accounts. Does not have a Docker image.

- Isotope Mail: https://blog.marcnuri.com/isotope-mail-client-introduction/

Looks decent (style is aligned to gmail). 'does' support multiple accounts but not in one aggregated inbox. No Rules management. No Contacts view. No Calender View.
- mailpile: Mailpile: e-mail that protects your privacy
A bit cartoonish UI but overall ok. Good number of options to tinker with. Plugin support (own ecosystem). TLS & GnuPG support. Does have planned multi account support. No docker image. According to author not production ready.

- roundcube: Roundcube - Free and Open Source Webmail Software
Great UI for someone that comes from outlook web. Plugin Support (own ecosystem). Established mail UI. PGP support. Does have a Docker image. Does not support multiple accounts, however with a plugin switching between accounts is possible.
- Rainloop: RainLoop Webmail

A bit outdated UI. Does support Contacts management. No Docker image. Multi account is supported but not on same browser Tab. No Rules management.
- snappymail: SnappyMail, your webmail client - SnappyMail

Fork of Rainloop that adds some minor features.

- squirrelmail: SquirrelMail - Webmail for Nuts!

Just awful UI. No active development. No Docker Image. 

- SOGo: SOGo | Open Source Groupware

Good UI. Does have a lot of adaptation. Contacts management. Calendar Mangement. Does have 3rd party Docker images. Does have rules management. Does have "aggregated" multi account support, although i found it very buggy. No Pgp Support. Could not get IMAP integration to work with outlook.com. Closest i can get to my needs.

- AfterLogic Webmail Lite: Afterlogic WebMail Lite PHP
OKish UI. PGP Support. Two Factor Auth support. Contact management. Rules management. Good browser Document Viewer. Multi account support behind a paywall.
- libremail: mikegioia/libremail (github.com)

Good UI. Way to complicated/complex to setup for me to really try out / no docker image. Not Production ready.

 

Im my opinion SOGo and AfterLogic were both closest to be usable for my usecase. However, i would like to hear any alternatives.

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I  wonder if you ever found a good solution for multi-account webmail?

I just set up a server with Cypht, but i feel my brain cells dying while using it..the interface looks janky AF

[Venson]

No not really. Currently i drive mailcow self hosted with the intigrated sogo client. I created my own janky dark mode theme for it and it still does not really support multi account very well in my opinion.