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List of web-based email clients (webmail software)

acmeMail

http://www.astray.com/acmemail/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/acmemail/
perl (and CPAN)
Has folders only if have IMAP
Uses Mail:Cclient library (for IMAP and POP3). If using POP3, only one folder (INBOX) is available :(

aeromail

http://www.cushman.net/projects/aeromail/
PHP via IMAP
uses Basic HTTP authentication; no cookies; not many features, but lightweight, speedy and easy to install.

AnyMail

http://netbula.com/anyemail/
Perl
$125 to $2995

AtDot

http://www.ndn.net/atdot/
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/atdot/
http://freesoftware.fsf.org/download/atdot/
(maybe not supported anymore?)

BasiliX

PHP
MySQL

emumail

$

Hastymail

http://hastymail.sourceforge.net/
IMAP
PHP
Contains its own encryption and IMAP functions. Uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for themes. Supports browsers like dillo, links, lynx, Palm OS browsers and more.

Horde / IMP (Internet Messaging Program)

http://www.horde.org/imp/
PHP
Uses IMAP?
Uses (My)SQL?
Said to be hard to install

IlohaMail

http://www.ilohamail.org/
IlohaMail (pronounced: e-lo-ha-mail) is a light weight yet full featured multilingual webmail program that is easy to use and install. It runs on a stock build of PHP, and does not require databases (although database support is available) or the IMAP library (it is powered by a custom IMAP/POP3 library).

JAWmailM

http://mailreader.com/
perl

neomail

http://neomail.sourceforge.net/
http://neocodesolutions.com/software/neomail/
perl
maybe not supported anymore? or maybe it is? (last updated 2001-07-26)
now I see neomail 1.27 released Nov. 24, 2003.

NOCC

http://nocc.sourceforge.net/
PHP
connect via IMAP or POP3

nwebmail

(was nmail) http://nwebmail.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nwebmail/
ANSI C, but doesn't compile or install under BSD without a lot of changes.
mime attachments, import/export address books

Oakmailer

http://www.oakbox.com/scripts/oakmailer.shtml
Uses perl and CPAN modules. The display is driven by a cascading style sheet.

oMail-webmail

http://omail.omnis.ch/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/omail
Perl solution for mail server based on qmail (and optionally vmailmgr or vpopmail). Uses maildirs directly (instead of POP3 or IMAP). Includes multiple language support (English, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, and many more), HTML and pictures inline display, folders, and address book support.

Open WebMail

http://turtle.ee.ncku.edu.tw/openwebmail/
based on neomail 1.14

postaci

http://freshmeat.net/projects/postaci/
PHP
POP3/IMAP

postman

ftp://ftp.uv.es/pub/unix/postman/postman.html
http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/Postman/
C++
IMAP
multiple folders, MIME, addressbook

pimp (Prometheus Internet Mail Program)

http://prometheus.zerodivide.net/apps/pimp/
PHP
IMAP

prayer

http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~dpc22/prayer/
C
Washington IMAP

Sendmail mobile message server (SMMS)

Sendmail's webmail program, commercial only. Scales HUGE (aimed at hotmail sized mail). Model is a back end, which keeps threads open to the IMAP server and front end(s) which speak HTTP/HTML to the user. Fails over if you have more than one front/back end. It means that small, you run it on one box; large you can run (say) 5 backends and 100 front ends (to handle the connections from the users which use up the TCP sockets) and handle a 100k to 1 million concurrent users.

spmail

http://smallpig.net/spmail/spmail.shtml

perl, mysql, uses POP3

SquirrelMail

http://www.squirrelmail.org/
PHP
needs IMAP4rev1
  • has a useable search engine
  • can search all subfolders for new mails

sqwebmail

http://inter7.com/sqwebmail/
Only Maildirs
Written in C

ThinMailer

http://www.oakbox.com/scripts/thinmailer.shtml
perl 5 (and perl modules)

twig (The Web Information Gateway)

http://twig.screwdriver.net/
PHP
Scheduling, Usenet, Bookmarks and more ...

UebiMiau

http://www.mycgiserver.com/~active/
UebiMiau is a simple, yet efficient PHP-based webmail supporting both IMAP and POP3 without dependence of any PHP's extra modules or database. Multiple folders support without IMAP. Said to be easy to install.

w3mail

http://www.w3mail.org/
$199 commercial
perl (and variety of modules)
POP3

WebThing

http://www.webthing.com/software/mail.html

webmail

http://software.jaos.org/
Perl (uses several CPAN modules);
Uses POP3.

A webmail with "virtual domain" support (sendmail style) is available at http://illx.org/wvds.html.
Security hole? user can view files?

WING (the Web IMAP/NNTP Gateway)

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mbeattie/wing/
Apache/mod_perl
IMAP

PHP Based: http://www.find-script.com/scripts/PHP/Email_Programs/Web_Based_Email/

HTTP Mail User Agent inventory
http://www.cru.fr/http-mail/

Email access via the Web - a listing of software
http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/


Last update: Mon Apr 11 17:54:16 PDT 2005
First published: Fri Aug 31 15:49:53 PDT 2001