On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:24:25PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I am an old time ELM user, now upgraded to MUTT. I have over 4,000 email
> files (each containing multiple emails) in my Mail directory. This is
> because I've been collecting emails since 1991 and want to keep them
> online so I can refer to them.
> 
> However I would like to join the rest of the world and use a web based email
> client. 

Why? 

> 
> The problems that I have are:
> 
> 1. It needs to be able to access them email in the mutt files interchangeably.

A local imapd. At least uw-imapd and dovecot support a
"pre-authenticated" mode of running the imapd by the user. Thus you can
connect with mutt from either localhost or with a remote host with
ssh/pubkey without typing/storing a password.

> 
> 2. It needs to work on a web server running Apache 2.

Shouldn't be an issue.

> 
> 3. If it uses IMAP, it needs to have support for SSL.

Shouldn't be an issue. This is a matter of setting up apache properly.
Note the limitations that a proper SSL setup has (no name-based virtual
hosting)

> 
> I tried roundcube and found that it has two problems that affect me:
> 
> a. It does not see my old email files. This could be an IMAP problem
>    or another problem. I turned off email caching in roundcube to prevent
>    double copies of the files.

What imapd? Can you give more details?

> 
> b. If I go into folder list on on roundcube, it crashes due to using too
>    much cpu time. I have a slow computer, but 128 seconds is a long time.

uw-imapd is generally very unefficient with large mbox folders, as you
probably know.

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