COMPARISON

OF

EMAIL CLIENTS

WHAT IS AN EMAIL CLIENT?

An email client, email reader or more formally mail user agent (MUA) is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email.

DIFFERENT EMAIL CLIENTS

• RAINLOOP
• ROUNDCUBE
• SQUIRRELMAIL
• HORDE
• MAILPILE
• ZIMBRA
• CLAROS
• AFTERLOGIC

RAINLOOP

Simple, modern & fast web-based email client

Modest system requirements, decent performance, simple installation and upgrade, no database required -
all these make RainLoop Webmail a perfect choice for your email solution.

Features

• Modern user interface.
• Complete support of IMAP and SMTP protocols.
• Minimalistic resources requirements.
• Allows for adding multiple accounts to primary one, simultaneous access to different accounts in different browser tabs is supported.
• Administrative panel for configuring main options.
• Integration with Facebook, Google, Twitter and Dropbox.
• Managing folders list.
• Keyboard shortcuts support.
• Drag'n'drop for mails and attachments.
• Configurable multi-level caching system.

SCREENSHOTS

ROUNDCUBE

It is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an email client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking.

Features

• Connects to any IMAPv4 server
• Full support MIME and HTML messages
• Threaded message listing
• Full-featured address book based on vCard with group support
• LDAP directory integration for address books
• Forwarding messages with attachments
• Built-in caching for fast mailbox access
• Searching messages and contacts
• Spell checking
• Support for external SMTP server
• IMAP folder management
• Template system for custom themes

SCREENSHOTS

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.
• It has very few requirements and is very easy to configure and install.
• SquirrelMail has all the functionality you would want from an email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation.

SCREENSHOTS

HORDE

• Horde Groupware is a free, enterprise ready, browser based collaboration suite.
• Users can manage and share calendars, contacts, tasks, notes, files, and bookmarks with the standards compliant components from the Horde Project.

FEATURES

• Dynamic, basic and mobile interfaces
• Public and shared resources (calendars, address books, tasklists and notepads)
• Unlimited resources per user
• Synchronization with PDAs, mobile phones, groupware clients
• Platform independant, works on any web server with PHP support, i.e. Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X Server
• Abstract database support, e.g. for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite

SCREENSHOTS

MAILPILE

• Mailpile is a modern, fast web-mail client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features.
• The development of Mailpile is funded by a large community of backers and all code related to the project is and will be released under an OSI approved Free Software license.
• Mailpile places great emphasis on providing a clean, elegant user interface and pleasant user experience.
• Mailpile aims to make it easy and convenient to receive and send PGP encrypted or signed e-mail.

FEATURES

• Powerful search & tagging makes your pile of mail managable, whether you have just a few messages, thousands or even millions.
• Mailpile is designed to be fast and responsive, outperforming "the cloud" even on slow computers.
• Store your mail on devices you control, your search index is encrypted so if your computer gets stolen, your mail stays secure.
• OpenPGP signatures and encryption are part of Mailpile's core design, not an afterthought or plugin.
• It's ironic that most web-mail solutions filter out spam, only to replace it with their own advertisements.
• Host your install of mailpile on your laptop, desktop, Raspberry PI, server in the cloud, or put it on a USB stick and carry it in your pocket.

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CLAROS

• 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(chat) 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.

FEATURES

• No page refreshes, fast and clean user interface, enhancing your e-mail experience.
• Chat with your friends from any network while you are composing an e-mail.
• It supports many languages out of the box.
• Supports both Pop3 and IMAP protocols.
• A full featured address book is included.
• Read news from your favorite RSS feed from the same interface.
• Don't memorize things. Simply place a post-it note. It will stay where you left it.
• Fully MIME compatible whilst both sending and receiving e-mail.

SCREENSHOTS

ZIMBRA

• Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is a collaborative software suite, that includes an email server and web client, owned and developed by Zimbra, Inc.
• Zimbra Collaboration is an open source messaging and collaboration solution.
• Zimbra includes complete email, address book, calendar, file-sharing and tasks

FEATURES

• Open source messaging and collaboration solution including full-featured email, calendar, address book, file-sharing and tasks
• Hierarchical storage management allows cost savings while deploying large user mailboxes
• Compatibility with Windows, Mac, and Linux   desktop environments.
• Better scalability and ease of maintenance
• Flexibility to integrate other applications as web services in our AJAX web client.
• Powerful search capabilities and support for very large mailboxes

SCREENSHOTS

AFTERLOGIC

• AfterLogic WebMail Lite is a free web-based IMAP and SMTP email-client with Ajax interface. AfterLogic WebMail Lite is available for both PHP and ASP.NET platforms.
• The version of AfterLogic WebMail Lite that is written in PHP is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the Affero General Public License (AGPL) version 3

FEATURES

• WebMail Pro delivers all the features users would expect. Built on the latest HTML5 and CSS3 technology
• Can run on a secure HTTPS server and communicate with a mail server over SSL connection
• Mail threading (with IMAP THREAD support)
• Mobile sync for Mail, Contacts and Calendar

• Encrypt, sign, decrypt and verify e-mails right in the browser. All the crypto takes place directly in the browser, neither PGP keys nor decrypted data are sent to the server.
• Implements cloud storage of files and folders, with DAV sync.
• Identities with signatures
• Customizable skins
• Google Drive and Dropbox support

SCREENSHOTS

THANK YOU :)