6 useful Ajax and PHP based WebMail Clients

Webmail client is also know as web based Email clients that allow User to Access there email from any Internet-connected computer around the world. it allow user to receive and send email messages using POP3 and SMTP protocols through both local and remote mail servers.

By providing application-like user interface and Sophisticated privacy protection user can easily view HTML-formatted email messages. WebMail clients can operate under different popular web platforms (PHP, ASP.NET, ruby on rails, java). In this Article, you will read about the 6 useful Ajax and PHP based Webmail Clients.

1. RoundCube Webmail client

   

   RoundCube Webmail client is a open source, browser based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface which is easy to install/configure and that runs on a standard LAMPP server. 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 client is written in PHP and use MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite or MSSQL database to store data.

   Features of Roundcube webmail

   1. Multilanguage Supported
   2. Drag-&-drop message management
   3. Full support for MIME and HTML messages
   4. Sophisticated privacy protection
   5. Compose messages with attachments
   6. Multiple sender identities
   7. Richtext/HTML message composing
   8. Forwarding messages with attachments
   9. IMAP folder management
   10. Support for external SMTP server

2. SquirrelMail Webmail Client

   

   Squirrelmail is a standards web based webmail Client 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. SquirrelMail has all the functionality you would want from an email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation.

3. Horde IMP email client

   

   Horde is a Open Source browser based communication suite based on PHP and Horde Framework. Users can read, send and organize email messages and manage and share calendars, contacts, tasks and notes with the standards compliant components from the Horde Project.

   Features of Horde Webmail client

   1. IMAP and POP3 supported webmail client
   2. Message filtering and searching
   3. HTML message composition with WYSIWIG editor
   4. Built in attachment viewers
   5. Encrypting and signing of messages (S/MIME and PGP)
   6. Full character set support for folders names and email messages
   7. Folder tree in left menu pane
   8. Conversation view of all messages in a thread
   9. Give Message previews in mailbox view
   10. Fetching of messages from external email accounts
   11. Flexible, individual alias addresses
   12. IMAP folder subscriptions
   13. Support for mailing list headers
   14. Forwarding of multiple messages at once

4. Zimbra Webmail Client

   

   Zimbra is a another one open source browser-based email and calendar groupware Client that allow you to test, evaluate, deploy, customize and improve the performance of message conversation view and visual search builder that makes multi-gigabyte inboxes easier to use. Zimbra syncs to smartphones (iPhone, BlackBerry) and desktop clients like Outlook and Thunderbird. It also features archiving and discovery for compliance. Zimbra can be deployed on-premises or as a hosted email solution.

5. Hastymail2 Webmail Client

   

   Hastymail2 is a full featured lightweight IMAP/SMTP client written in PHP. Fully Compatible with PDAs, phones, text browsers, and all mainstream browsers. Hastymail2 is also support for Flexible and powerful plugin system that allow PHP developer to create there own plugins to enhance the performance of Hastymail2. It give you ability to use a database for storing user settings, contacts, and plugin data, with support for both Postgresql and Mysql .

   Features of Hastymail2

   1. W3C valid UTF-8 XHTML pages that can be configured to be delivered as type application/xhtml-xml for supported browsers.
   2. Multilevel theme system using CSS, PHP templates, and icon sets
   3. Flexible and powerful plugin system with documentation, examples, and many plugins like a calendar, auto complete, sound notifications, HTML mail composition, and more
   4. The ability to use a database for storing user settings, contacts, and plugin data, with support for both Postgresql and Mysql
   5. Tunable smart cache to balance IMAP activity and PHP session size to maximize performance for different configurations
   6. AJAX updating using a lightweight and simple system
   7. Small page sizes to minimize load time and bandwidth use. Average page sizes including javascript with AJAX updating, CSS, and images is less than 100K without compression or caching, 50K when using gzip compression, and less than 20K when using gzip and normal browser caching
   8. Multilanguage supported
   9. Advanced IMAP search capabilities
   10. IMAP SSL and STARTTLS* support
   11. Vcard based contact management including import/export ability

6. Mailr – open source webmail

   

   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.

   Features of Mailr

1. Uses IMAP protocol
2. Caches IMAP server connections
3. HTML and plaintext message composition
4. Address book (contacts) with possible import from CSV file
5. Ajax based autocomplete of email addresses
6. Mail filters based on Maildrop
7. i18n based on Sascha Ebach’s manual

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