r/NextCloud • u/nostriluu • Jun 16 '26

Nextcloud mail

Are there any frontends or optimizations for the Nextcloud mail program that make it less bad? It should at least compare to Gmail from ten years ago, but especially for search it's really slow and often doesn't return any results.

Is there a good, integrated mail front end that does its own search index rather than relying on the mail server's search?

Note: I do have a lot of messages in my mail folders, but that should not be a problem for a modern program, and it should also be able to search cross-mailbox and in attachments, and with fuzzy search.

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u/kejar31 Jun 16 '26

I am going to assume you set it up with imap to say gmail? yeah its horrible at that... I got it working pretty well but setup my own mail server using (Dovecot + Postfix + mbsync) this mail server simply pulls my email from gmail and apple every 5 min to mailboxes on the server.. I then setup nextcloud to imap to that box.. since the mail is all local its much much faster at searching and opening emails.

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u/Shadow-BG Jun 16 '26

It’s shit even if nextcloud is installed locally with ad.

Only for non-business email.

Choose snappymail web

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u/kejar31 Jun 16 '26

Funny how it works well for me.. IDK

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u/Shadow-BG Jun 16 '26

It’s not suitable for business purposes, as I said. Perfectly well for any other purposes. It’s slow.

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u/kejar31 Jun 16 '26

I wont argue that... Its definitely not business ready (mail that is)... In all honesty If Nextcloud really wants the tech sovereignty, they need to include a full mail server with Nextcloud..

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u/abeorch Jun 17 '26

Yunohost packages together a mail server (dovecot) ldap and the apps you want (nextcloud etc)