Squirrelmail - webmail
Top Features
- clean interface
- suports IMAP folders
- multiple identities
Squirrelmail is a great web-based product that we’ve been using for a few years. It allows you to access your POP3 or IMAP email over the web – perfect for those moments when you just need to check on something from another location, although it is easily good enough to use as your only email client.
The tool needs to be set up with the mail settings for the domain (or organisation), then each user can log in with their username and password. The login screen can be customised to match your online brand, and within the tool itself a number of themes are available which the users can choose between on a per-user basis.
The product also has all the other features you’d expect from a desktop email client – address books, IMAP folder support, read receipts, attachment handling, priorities …. you get the picture. Its default view is frames with the folder list on the left and messages in the main pane, similar to Outlook or other similar products. Used in Opera with the “small screen” feature, it renders very tidily into a list of folders followed by a list of messages, and I imagine this would translate well to use on a device of any kind.
A recent addition to the feature set for Squirrelmail is support for multiple identities. This means that if you have different email addresses, you can send from any one in the drop down list and it sets your outgoing email address, reply-to and display name accordingly. This is useful when you use an address which allows suffixes, such as gmail, or multiple addresses at the same domain. The program will allow you to send email from any of the addresses you have set up, and when you reply to email from one of these identities, it picks that identity (email address, reply-to address and display name) accordingly.
Other Resources
Squirrelmail is a sourceforge project, they have an active community based on their sourceforge homepage at http://squirrelmail.sourceforge.net.