Inspiration from the Open Source ecosystem: Alps email client

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Let me bring into your attention quite recent attempt to build Cypht-like web mail I accidentally stumbled upon.

Alps, authored by well-known OSS devs and backed financially by an open-source-friendly small company.

https://nixfaq.org/2020/10/alps-an-emerging-open-source-modern-webmail-with-potential-to-topple-most-php-based-webmail.html

It seems Cypt could benefit from taking inspiration from some of the neat features like automated configuration via SRV records, easy theming, etc.

Note Alps managed to get quite some plugins already - 2FA, ManageSieve, Cal/CardDAV, etc. So it's actually very capable yet super easy to deploy & maintain/administer.

(Alps is IMAP-only, but I don't think this is a limitation nowadays)

And sorry for misusing the notification functionality - I just thought it might be of interest for the Cypht community. Feel free to close this issue for lack of actionable items.

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This was added recently: https://www.openhub.net/p/MIGADU_ALPS

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So the Alps webmail is supported by Migadu, which is an email provider started in 2014: https://www.migadu.com/about/

It is great that SaaS providers use, offer and contribute to Open Source!

As of now, https://webmail.migadu.com/ is still powered by RainLoop but perhaps there is another URL to use Alps.

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Nowadays, https://webmail.migadu.com/ uses a RainLoop fork: https://github.com/the-djmaze/snappymail

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Another place for good ideas is the Alps issue list: https://todo.sr.ht/~migadu/alps

Here you can compare some stats between Alps, Cypht and SnappyMail: https://openhub.net/p/_compare?project_0=Migadu+Alps&project_1=Cypht+Webmail&project_2=SnappyMail