This page is just an overview free software mail and messaging projects.
Web MailSquirrelmailThe standard. Very easy to install, works well, has lots of plugins which can make it do all kinds of crazy things. Stable. PHP. squirrelmail.org IMPDifficult to install, now has more features than squirrelmail. Some people prefer the IMP interface to squirrelmail. PHP. horde.org RoundCubeAJAX fancy and slick. PHP. Still beta. Very pretty. roundcube.net IlohaMailI haven't tried it, but it claims to be easy to set up. Has contact groups, which SM and IMP don't have yet (in a usable way, at least). blog.ilohamail.org HastyMail Clean, fast, CSS, PHP. hastymail.sourceforge.net
client side GPGhushmail librariesSome hushmail">www.hushmail.com/about-downloads">hushmail java libraries are available for download. They do client side gpg, I believe. gpg javascriptSomeone wrote a javascript">www.hanewin.net/encrypt">javascript library to do gpg encryption and decryption entirely in javascript. gpg javaThere are a couple different libraries. Here is an example of a mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/c.meijer/mmusing.htm client">java gpg enabled client Communications ServersZimbraMonolith java communication server. AJAX. Outlook replacement plus gmail tags, etc. Fancy. Beta. www.zimbra.com/ HulaDoes everything. Calendering and mail server, used to be novell NetMail? Big and scalable. hula-project.org scalix tagline: "Enterprise-class Email & Calendaring on Linux. Web client. Desktop performance."
scalix.org. started life as HP's OpenMail. they have a open source 'community edition' which doesn't have some features, like multi-server support.
CitadelRoots as a bbs. Many features, many UIs. Unique feature is that it has a 'room' concept, great for community sites. www.citadel.org |
