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.

SCREENSHOTS

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

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