On Friday, 9 April 2021 00:56:27 BST Dan Egli wrote:
> On 4/8/2021 5:12 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >> I
> >> think I'm missing the part that I can access it with a GUI, like when I
> >> go to mail.google.com or something.
> > 
> > Dovecot is an IMP server, it doesn't have a GUI. What you are thinking of
> > is a webmail *client*. That's just another client, like Thunderbird or
> > mutt, as far as Dovecot is concerned. There are a few webmail clients
> > available, I use Roundcube.
> 
> It all depends on what you want. I've not used Roundcube, although I
> hear it's good. I've used SquirrelMail, Horde, and SOGo. I personally
> prefer SOGo, but it's complicated to setup. SquirrelMail is easy, but
> lacks a lot of features that SOGo had. Horde is kind of in the middle.
> The only thing I'd watch out for is that if you use SOGo, the gentoo
> packages are WAY out of date. The most recent SOGo package in portage is
> 4.3.2, but you can get the sources for 5.1.0 from the SOGO.NU website.

Quick clarification:

A webmail client is a web app, served by a webserver.  Adding all these 
packages, complication and configuration, on what otherwise remains a desktop 
installation/use case, when the OP already uses a mail client application on 
localhost to access his emails, makes me think it's a bit of an overkill.

Unless, instead of a mail client desktop application, a webmail interface is 
preferred and the burden of configuring and maintaining so many more packages 
is acceptable.