[ILUG] Interesting webmail clients

[Phil]

Hi all,

I seem to remember a thread on ILUG discussing the merits of various 
webmail clients but I can't find it. I've been looking at this myself 
and thought I'd throw in my findings.

Atmail, who have been in the business for years, have released an open 
source version of their webmail client under the Apache license. It's 
written in PHP with a nice Ajax-y UI. So far it runs very nicely and 
speaking as someone who threw in the towel when trying to get IMP to 
work, it's fairly easy to configure.

The website for it is here:
http://atmail.org/



Prior to finding atmail, I also looked at Claros Intouch 2.1 
(http://www.claros.org/web/showProduct.do?id=1). This also has a very 
nice UI (I think it uses YUI) and is released under GPL but I stopped 
using it for two reasons:

1. There is no way to specify the sender address, a deal breaker for me
2. It crashed occasionally and required a restart of Tomcat (yes it's 
written in Java).

2 may be easily solved, I didn't spend time on it because of 1 but the 
UI is slightly nicer (IMO) than Atmail so you it's worth a look.

Hope this helps,
  -Phil