need a proven webmail system - free :-)

Hi guys,

I have been searching the net and special sites like hotfiles.com for days to find a good webmail tool/script.

My site is with a provider, I don't run my own server so I need something that can simply be uploaded and configured, nothing that needs to be compiled.

The server runs on apache 1.xx dunno the exact version but its one of the latest builds. I have a mysql database, php and cgi and almost all of the other gimmicks enabled.

What I want the webmailer to perform is:
- multiple pop3 accounts per user
- only one login into webmail the choose from pop3 accounts/check all - no loging in for each account
- good contacts usage, easy to pick from contacts to insert into to,cc,bcc field

why I am asking here for help is the fact that I have been trying out different webmailers for severall days and I just need one that is working (bugless, more or less)

I will give you some names so you can see I actually did test some:

- bphp - mail - the installation instructions seem to be very outdated. I am lost without an instruction, might be good still
- phpmailbox - looked good although very simple, could`'t try it out as the webpage of that guy simply disappeared and gives me a site under construction now. `'ll check it out later
- IlohaMAil - you have to login for each of your pop3 accounts separately - does not make any sense if someone has 6 pop3 accounts to check
-poppawid - really tried this one out - performs a bit slow and there are severall bugs mentioned even in the support forum but unsolved yet - if I delete a message, login later it will be downloaded again and severall other nsty things.

I even had a look a mymail webmail, then discovered the post about that guy stealing the code, whatever...

Why I need a webmail is that I need to be able to read and write emails from seevral of my pop3 web accounts and some good friends of mine will son be traveling for severall months so I thought I might give them a gift and supply them with the option to read and write mail from faraway places and send everybody postcards (using a good contact list to get the adresses from)

- somehow I ended up on the site of V-webmail - looks great but not free and very very expensive.

Do you have any scripting languages (PHP, Perl, etc) available to you?

how do you mean that?

If you mean if I can write php, perl etc, NO - but I have basic programming skills so if I have a look at a php script or a (perl) cgi script most of the times I know what is going on there and I am able to help myself if I get errors.

well this answer was my best guess as I am still not sure if I got your question right.

Hi

Have you check SquirelMail yet ? Its free and widely used too. How about NOCC ?

Maybe you want to search in Sourceforge as well.

I`l have a look at those two in the next days.

Any experience with any one of those two? Recomandation?

Had a look at squirrelmail:



Just trying to find out if that is the case.

EDIT: Just got info back from my provider: use pop3 instead of IMAP, will implement this feature this year.
=>no suirrelmail for me

Well NOCC :-)

had a look at the screenshots as well as the requierements, features and bugtracks:

the screenshots show someone composing an email and it looks like you have to enter the recipients email by hand. Most of the tools I mentioned earlier had some way to enter recipients easily with one or two clicks by for example displaying the addressbook on the same page as the new email => click and add... I dunno doesn't lok to glorious after a few glances, just reading the bugtracks...

Anyway I was asking for someone actually being able to recommend a web mail tool after reading what features I was looking for.

EDIT: Just found out from the feature requests that an address book is not included.
=>no nocc for me

I was asking what your server has installed on it.

In my first post I said:

Thats why I wasn't sure what you were asking for.
By gimmicks I meant SSI enabled, ssh access, pop3 access (no IMAPI) , perl (vers. 5.xx - should be one of the latest builds, too lazy to check right now) and I guess thats about all there is

to mttatkns






does that help ?
Any other suggestions?

I have recently been looking at groupware systems although that would be overkill.

As I already stated I need a nice webmail with calendar and address book.

http://openwebmail.com
If you want a demo, go to http://mail.postman.net/ , username demo, password demodemo

hi mttatkns

when I clicked your link I realized I had already visited that site. As far as I can remember the reasons why I didn't try openwebmail are the following:

- it is based on neomail and neomail (as far as I remember) you had to compile or install manually on the server and as I mentioned above I am with a webhost so I don't have root privileges
- took this excerpt from the bug tracking forum:



AND the address book is minimalistic (at least in the demon I tried). Anywaythe main reason for not using opwnwebmail is the installtion issue.

Try look at Postaci ...
http://freshmeat.net/projects/postaci/

they wanted a calendar.