I was generally pissed off with my departmental WebMail server. In the sense that, it doesn’t use any Web2.0/Ajax tech. A while ago, I started searching for a simple and fast alternative imap client. A quick Google search led me to RoundCube. It’s really amazing and slick, thanks to Ajax. All you need to deploy is user/public_html web-space with PHP support and access to an SQL server. Installation is real easy. I got it up and running with in an hour. BTW, if your imap server uses ~/Maildir format, just leave the ‘imap_root’ config variable uninitialized. That was the only hiccup in my case.
