Employees need to access their email from wherever they happen to be – on the road, at customer sites, remote offices, and at home. WebMail clients allows receiving and sending email messages using POP3 and SMTP protocols through both local and remote mail servers. Providing secure filtering of unsafe content while viewing HTML-formatted email messages. WebMail clients can operate under different popular web platforms (PHP, ASP.NET, ruby on rails, java).
Today i wanted to share with you 10 AJAX-based & PHP webmail client that delivers the look and feel, usability and performance of a desktop application. Some of the webmail clients listed below are open source code that can be easily modified to better suit user’s needs, while others are not. So You must check their license to know the rules.
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1. RoundCube
RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking. RoundCube Webmail is written in PHP and requires a MySQL or Postgres database. The user interface is fully skinnable using XHTML and CSS 2.
2. Zimbra
Zimbra provides open source email and calendar groupware software, with a browser-based AJAX client to deliver a rich experience with a message conversation view and visual search builder that makes multi-gigabyte inboxes easier to use. They also integrate 3rd party applications as “mash-ups” via web services so you can view CRM data, maps, or anything else without leaving the context of a message.
3. Xuheki
Xuheki is a fast IMAP client which has a browser-based AJAX client so you can access it from anywhere to read your email. It has most features that you would expect from a fine “Mail User Agent”. Xuheki is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
4. SquirrelMail
SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP. It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no JavaScript required) for maximum compatibility across browsers.
5. Atmail
AtMail, a free lightweight Ajax Webmail client software that is written in PHP that allow end user receive email via web browser and WAP devices. This webmail client software can be installed on variety platform like Windows and Linux. Plus more, it support various email technology like IMAP/POP3 mailboxes, and an optional email-server mode that uses Exim as the MTA.
6. Afterlogic
AfterLogic WebMail Lite PHP is easy-to-use webmail script with modern interface, supports AJAX and skins. Users can receive, view, delete, compose, and send mail through web interface (POP3 and SMTP supported). Multiple attachments, multiple mail accounts and domains, preview panel, web-based administration. Easy installation, supports PHP 4.1 and above. Open source and completely free. Can be upgraded to Pro version with extended features….
7. Hastymail
Hastymail is a full featured IMAP/SMTP client written in PHP. Compatible with PDAs, phones, text browsers, and with all mainstream browsers. Hastymail has a powerful plugin system that PHP developers can use to alter the way it works. Plugins can add pages within the Hastymail application (including css files), alter existing pages by inserting XHTML, modify internal data structures within Hastymail, make AJAX callbacks using their AJAX system, and even communicate with a configured SQL server.
8. Mailr
Mailr is an open source webmail application written in Ruby which uses Ruby On Rails web application framework. The application is tested with Courier-IMAP but it should be possible to use it with any other IMAP server.
9. Claros inTouch
Claros inTouch is an Ajax communication suite with key features such as webmail, address book, post-it notes, calendar (in progress), webdisk (in progress), built-in instant messenger and rss reader. It is the first open source web application which features built in spam protection and instant messaging capabilities together with web 2.0 technologies. Built with Java, utilizes JSP/Servlets with the well known J2EE technologies & uses MySQL database.
10. Postaci
Postaci is a PHP based POP3/IMAP e-mail client that is very simple and easy to use. It supports SMTP authentication. It can handle both protocols and the defaul protocol can be changed from a single configuration file. Postaci is platform independent, it can work on any operating system which supports PHP. Postaci is also database independent, it can be used with MySQL, mSQL, Microsoft SQL, Sybase, PostgreSQL.
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113 Comments:
More than a year ago
I prefer Afterlogic webmail. It's really nice and simple
More than a year ago
I currently use 3mail4.me. It is stable fast and seems secure enough. They very care about privacy and that's good. Honestly I just don't trust big email companies because of the NSA and all these insane laws they have passed or plan on passing.
More than a year ago
Nice list of webmails. It is good to have them in one place. But I couldnt find your personal opinion about them. Which do you prefer?
More than a year ago
Thanks David for your positive contribution about revealing the paid and also the free sources for Atmail
More than a year ago
Thanks for the info, Have tried to fix all my email issues with iCloud but its still a mess, gonna give RoundCube a try.
More than a year ago
Your article is really good and it helps me to finish my project.
More than a year ago
Yea atmail sucks. I had purchase the paid versions and it had problems and they wouldnt even support it. Worst Customer Service ever. I have emails to prove.
More than a year ago
I've extensively used Squirrelmail, Roundcubemail and Afterlogic webmail lite.
The Afterlogic one is by far the most responsive and usable.
More than a year ago
very good post....very usefull information...thanks
More than a year ago
TOP of webmail clients:
1.-SquirrelMail
2.-RoundCube
3.-AtMail
More than a year ago
A big thank you for your article. Really Cool.
More than a year ago
Major thanks for the blog.Really thank you! Really Cool.
More than a year ago
Even if the post is some days older: many thanks for your article ! This was exactly what I'm looking for!
More than a year ago
Thanks for researching and putting up this list!
I needed to switch from Merak Icewarp webmail which isn't updated anymore.
I have tried a couple of the webmail packages you mention here and decided to go for Webmail lite from after logic that fits my needs.
Your post saved me time in finding available webmail server packages. Thanks
More than a year ago
I think that Zimbra is not compared with he other webmails.
Zimbra is much more that a regular webmail service, it is the whole server! You should compare Zimbra with Exchange or Lotus, not the rest of this example. Yet, if you really want something REALLY Pro you should go for Zimbra.
Zimbra is not for everyone, but everyone who uses it Loves it.
No need to say that I'm really addicted to Zimbra... :P
More than a year ago
It won't. you need at least 2 GB of RAM (4 recommended for Production).
More than a year ago
Any suggestions for a commercial script to sell an email service?
More than a year ago
Xuheki is not php-based, it's perl-based. Installation instructions are available for debian/ubuntu. I failed to make it work on CentOS.
More than a year ago
i couldn't get either hastymail or atmail to work with tls,, i think the former supports latter clearly doesnt. i have had both roundcube and squirrelmail work in that mode at one time
More than a year ago
Oh I disagree, Thunderbird beats Outlook hands down handling IMAP. And since this is a list of webmail clients I would think that any standard email client was also being used then the protocol used would be IMAP.
More than a year ago
As the content above states . . .
More than a year ago
I prefer Wordpad, seriously
More than a year ago
claros in touch is not a php s/w , its a java product, but this is included in this post with PHP heading
More than a year ago
I am looking for a mail client where I can make some serious changes to the code. I will need to be able to collect from about 100 email accounts, and do things like:
I am getting error reports because someone is creating 404s as they look for weaknesses in my system. I want to be able to write code to report when I get a lot of reports from the same IP address (which appears in the email), and perhaps even block them from the site.
That sort of thing means that I must have a database, preferably MySQL, to store the mails in.
Of course, that is just one example.
Does that sound like the sort of thing anyone has done? I am thinking about RoundCube at the moment, but would love to know if any else has experience with extending email clients, and what client they have used.
More than a year ago
ha ha ha....very funny... rofl