Greetings everyone,
I'm new to the list as of today. I just installed Dovecot a couple of days ago for the first time, Debian Lenny Dovecot v1.0.15-2.3. So far I'm pretty impressed. I'm using mbox format with Dovecot auto-deciding to place mail in user home directories, which is great. It works very well with the Win32 Thunderbird 3 client over a small basic 100FDX switched net. I've got one list mail folder with 10,600 messages and server side body searching that folder via T-Bird is very quick, on the order of 5 seconds. It would probably be quicker if Dovecot threaded the search to use both CPUs, but pegging just the one CPU the search is still very darn quick. And this is on a dual P2-550 class machine with only 384MB RAM and a single 500GB 7200RPM SATA drive.
I'd like to install a webmail package on the same host. I used Squirrelmail for this purpose many years ago and I wasn't wholly impressed with the user interface. I'm also not impressed by the fact that I regularly receive spam from compromised Squirrelmail hosts/accounts. I really like the look/feel of the Scalix Web Access AJAX based interface, but I can't/won't use Scalix as it's not supported on Debian, it has more features than I need, and the system requirements are a bit steep.
So, what's the best FOSS IMAP enabled web mail front end with a modern look/feel? I'd like to run it on lighttpd, which I'm already using, not apache.
Thanks in advance for any advice. My apologies if my first post is a little OT, but I figured there's probably no better place to ask about the best webmail front end for Dovecot than here.
-- Stan