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Re: Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail?

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post #23

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Dovecot supports tags.

Dovecot supports it, but are there any good, stable IMAP clients that work with it?

Thunderbird good enough?

(Although I usually kill the default tags that Thunderbird still includes as a hangover from the original Thunderbird release because that way I get useful tag names in the Maildir should I ever need to hack on them directly.)

Re: Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail?

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post #12

SquirrelMail (is open source) and has some nice paid themes http://nutsmail.com/

Nutsmail have done a pretty impressive modification of the original Squirrelmail to include clean, good looking themes and plugins, all nicely packaged. Thanks for the link!

Re: Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail?

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post #15

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I seriously cannot believe that something that looks like it was designed for Netscape Navigator still exists. There must be a need for it over everything else, I'd love to know where it's still used.

Or there's very little need for it, which is why nobody has made anything better since.

according to @teyc's comment, nutsmail sells templates for it.

Re: Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail?

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dovecot supports it, but are there any good, stable IMAP clients that work with it?

Thunderbird good enough? (Although I usually kill the default tags that Thunderbird still includes as a hangover from the original Thunderbird release because that way I get useful tag names in the Maildir should I ever need to hack on them directly.)

Thunderbird hits every one of wccrawford's items, except it's not itself web based.

I use Thunderbird with a cheap fastmail.fm account. You can access your fastmail account from anywhere with their web interface. You can access it from any imap client.

It all works good enough for me. Not fantastic, but good enough.

Re: Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail?

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dovecot supports it, but are there any good, stable IMAP clients that work with it?

Thunderbird good enough? (Although I usually kill the default tags that Thunderbird still includes as a hangover from the original Thunderbird release because that way I get useful tag names in the Maildir should I ever need to hack on them directly.)

> Thunderbird good enough?

Oh man. As a longtime Thunderbird user, I have to say, that's a loaded question. :)

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