Posted on September 7th, 2006 by tpo
An survey of existing webmail solutions.
Survey of Webmail Interfaces
acmemail 2.1.9
- www.astray.com/acmemail/
- IMAP/POP3
- MIME
- GPL
- untested
AeroMail 2.41
- http://www.nicolaas.net/aeromail/
- written in PHP
- IMAP
- IMAP folder manipulation
- viewwing/sending attachements
- GPL
- untested
AtDot-1.8.1
- www.atdot.org
- shows sender, subject and size
- mime attachements are shown mime-encoded in the email-body
- on big emails CPU-usage 90-98%
- doesn't test if listed emails are still valid (not deleted by another email client) before deleting or forwarding
- emails are being saved localy when geting index (can be easily changed by replacing RETR by TOP for cuicpop)
At Mail 1.5
- webbasedemail.com
- specialised for mail via WAP
- includes sign-up for accounts
- supports SMS
- POP3 SQl and mbox
- supports MIME
- cutomizable look
- LDAP
- unknown licence, probably proprietary
- not tested
Coconut Webmail Pro 1.1.1
- www.coconutsoftware.com
- nested folders
- aliases
- filters
- footers
- mail forwarding
- easy to install
- uses 95% cpu on large attachments
- users need to register in a sperate database before getting access to a pop3 server
- no imap support
- commercial
CWMail
- netwinsite.com/dmailweb/
- $5000 (5000 mailboxes)
- not tested
DMail-Web
- www.netwinsite.com/dmailweb/
- shows sender, subject and size
- mime attachements are shown mime-encoded in the email-body
- maximal size of emails can be defined
- on big emails CPU-usage 90-98%
- doesn't test if listed emails are still valid (not deleted by another email client) before deleting or forwarding
- emails are being saved localy when geting index
- 485$
foodora
- www.netspace.org/~bperkins
- not very complete
- not tested
IMP 2.2.0
- horde.org/imp/
- IMAP and POP3 support
- MIME support (send and recieve)
- LDAP search support
- hard to configure ?
- very actively developped
- free
jwma 0.9
- jwma.sourceforge.net
- IMAP support
- MIME support
- depends on quite a few other packages
- BSD licence
mailman-2.0
- www.endymion.com/products/mailman/
- supports some MIME, HTML-MIME
- template based
- $250, $400 professional
- not tested
- I've got the following report: "mailman kills memory and cpu on big email and will give internal server errors for attachments"
mailreader
- mailreader.com/
- supports MIME
- not tested
MailSpinner
- www.mailspinner.com
- $8750 (5000 mailboxes)
- not tested
MUMail 1.2.5
- www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~marktop/MUMail/
- partial MIME support
- Java based
- free
- not tested
NeoMail 1.20
- neomail.sourceforge.net
- inline image display
- sending/recieving attachements
- multiple folders support
- configurable limits
- address book
- seting of user preferences possible
- Perl based
- free
- not tested
NOCC 0.9.1
- nocc.sourceforge.net
- POP, IMAP, SMTP
- MIME
- inline HTML display
- customizable look
- multilanguage
- PHP based
- free
- not tested
PIMP 4.1
- IMAP
- optional cookies, no Java or Javascript, no frames, massive scalability
- supports sending attachements
- adressbook
- GPL
- not tested
popper 1.42
- www.ractive.ch/gpl/popper.html looks very nice - like Outlook in fact.
- MIME
- POP3 only
- GPL
- not tested
Postaci 1.1.0
- www.trlinux.com/
- addressbook, notebook, bookmarks
- save/move/delete
- MIME
- POP3/IMAP
- GPL
- not tested
Postman
- ftp.uv.es/pub/unix/postman/postman.html
- addressbook, bookmarks, user preferences, search mail
- optional cookied
- HTML only (no Java/script)
- MIME send and recieve
- IMAP, multiple folders support, no reconnections (keeps connection open)
- written in C++
- GPL
- not tested
Spmail 1.1b2
- sourceforge.net/projects/spmail
- multiple accounts
- filtering
- address book
- dowloading attachements
- searching mails
- based on mysql
- can run under Mod_Perl
- GPL
- not tested
ThorMail 0.9.7
- sourceforge.net/projects/thormail/
- for IMAP
- free
- not tested
TWIG 2.4.0
- twig.screwdriver.net
- IMAP/POP3
- written in PHP3
- contact management, simple scheduling, usenet groups, todo manager, bookmarks
- information sharing with other users
- free
- not tested
W3Mail 1.0.0
- http://w3mail.sourceforge.net
- POP3
- send and recieve MIME attachments
- adressbook
- web based configuration editor
- easy installation
- commercial version $199, personal free
- not tested
WWW-Mail
- www.vejrum.dk/www-mail/
- doesn't show size of emails
- shows sender and subject
- support for MIME in attachements
- one can send mail without loging in (spaming...)
- doesn't show size of emails
- on big emails CPU-usage 90-98%
- doesn't test if listed emails are still valid (not deleted by another email client) before deleting or forwarding
- doesn't download emails, but leaves them on the popserver
- free for non-profit use, $200 for commercial users

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