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SquirrelMail

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SquirrelMail
Original author(s)Nathan and Luke Ehresman[1]
Developer(s)The SquirrelMail Project Team
Stable release1.4.22 (12 July 2011;13 years ago(2011-07-12))[±]
Repositoryhttps://sourceforge.net/projects/squirrelmail/
Written inPHP
PlatformWeb platform
Available in56 languages[2]
List of languages
Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Bangladeshi Bengali, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, British, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indian Bengali, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Russian Ukrainian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh
TypeWebmail
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websitewww.squirrelmail.org

SquirrelMailis a project that aims to provide both aweb-based email clientand aproxy serverfor theIMAPprotocol.

The latest stable version 1.4.23-svn is tested with PHP up to version 8.1 and replaces version 1.4.22 which can only run on PHP version 5.0-5.4. The svn part in the version name points out that bugfixes and minor improvements are no longer published as new versions, but instead are maintained withinApache Subversionversion control system.

History

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The webmail portion of the project was started by Nathan and Luke Ehresman[1]in 1999 and is written inPHP.SquirrelMail can be employed in conjunction with aLAMP "stack",and any other operating systems that support PHP are supported as well. The web server needs access to the IMAP server hosting the email and to anSMTPserver to be able to send mails.[3]

SquirrelMail webmail outputs validHTML4.0 for its presentation, making it compatible with a majority of currentweb browsers.SquirrelMail webmail uses a plugin architecture to accommodate additional features around the core application, and over 200 plugins are available on the SquirrelMail website.[4]

The SquirrelMail IMAP proxy server product was created in 2002 by Dave McMurtrie while at theUniversity of Pittsburgh(where it was named "up-imapproxy", although it has become more commonly known as "imapproxy" ) and adopted by the SquirrelMail team in 2010.[5]It is written inCand is primarily made to providestatefulconnections forstatelesswebmail client software to an IMAP server, thus avoiding new IMAP logins for every client action and in some cases significantly improving webmail performance.

Both SquirrelMail products arefree and open-source softwaresubject to the terms of theGNU General Public Licenseversion 2 or any later version.

SquirrelMail webmail was included in the repositories of many majorLinux distributions[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] and is independently downloaded by thousands of people every month.[15]

Platforms

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SquirrelMail webmail is available for any platform supporting PHP. Most commonly used platforms includeLinux,FreeBSD,macOSand the server variants ofMicrosoft Windows.SquirrelMail IMAP Proxy compiles on most flavors ofUnix,and can generally be used on the same platforms that the webmail product can with the exception of Microsoft Windows, unless used in aCygwinor similar environment. Apple shipped SquirrelMail as their supported web mail solution inMac OS X Server.[16]

Plugins

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The SquirrelMail webmail client itself is a complete webmail system, but extra features are available in the form ofplugins.There are over 200 third-party plugins available for download from the SquirrelMail website and SquirrelMail ships with several "standard" or "core" plugins.

Internationalization

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SquirrelMail webmail has been translated into over 50 languages including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, and Spanish.[2]

Notable installations

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SquirrelMail has been implemented as the official email system of the Prime Minister's Office of the Republic of India for its security advantages over Microsoft'sOutlook Express.[17][18][19][20]

In 2004HEC Montréalbusiness school deployed SquirrelMail as part of a comprehensive webmail solution, to support thousands of users.[21]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ab"SquirrelMail history".Squirrelmail.org.Retrieved11 August2009.
  2. ^ab"SquirrelMail translation statistics".L10n-stats.squirrelmail.org. 16 June 2009.Retrieved11 August2009.
  3. ^"SquirrelMail, a Web-Based Mail Server – O'Reilly Media".onlamp.com. Archived fromthe originalon 25 July 2010.Retrieved29 July2010.
  4. ^Wallen, Jack (7 August 2007)."SolutionBase: Taking SquirrelMail to new levels".Articles.techrepublic.com.com. Archived fromthe originalon 31 December 2009.Retrieved31 October2010.
  5. ^"IMAP Proxy home page".Retrieved15 November2010.
  6. ^"Fedora Package Database – squirrelmail".fedoraproject.org. Archived fromthe originalon 20 December 2012.Retrieved6 March2010.
  7. ^"Novell: openSUSE 10.3: squirrelmail".novell.com. Archived fromthe originalon 11 April 2011.Retrieved6 March2010.
  8. ^"Debian – Package Search Results – squirrelmail".debian.org.Retrieved6 March2010.
  9. ^"CentOS Package List".centos.org. Archived fromthe originalon 9 March 2010.Retrieved6 March2010.
  10. ^"CentOS SquirrelMail Package".centos.org.Retrieved6 March2010.[dead link]
  11. ^"Ubuntu – Package Search Results – squirrelmail".ubuntu.com.Retrieved6 March2010.
  12. ^"Gentoo Packages /package/mail-client/squirrelmail".gentoo.org. Archived fromthe originalon 26 September 2010.Retrieved6 March2010.
  13. ^"FreeBSD Ports Search – squirrelmail".freebsd.org.Retrieved6 March2010.
  14. ^"Port description for mail/squirrelmail".freebsd.org. Archived fromthe originalon 10 September 2012.Retrieved6 March2010.
  15. ^"Project Statistics for SquirrelMail".sourceforge.net.Retrieved25 July2018.
  16. ^"Peachpit: Mac OS X Server Mail Service Boot Camp: Advanced Mailing List Features and Web Mail".13 October 2006.Retrieved30 August2010.
  17. ^"Microsoft dumped after India PM's emails go AWOL".The Register.17 March 2009.Retrieved6 March2010.
  18. ^"PMO's email system infected for three months".The Times of India.15 March 2009.Archivedfrom the original on 11 August 2011.Retrieved6 March2010.
  19. ^"Indian PM Abandons Outlook for Open-Source Email".infopackets.com. 20 March 2009.Retrieved6 March2010.
  20. ^"No Microsoft mail for PM".techgoss.com. 16 March 2009.Retrieved6 March2010.
  21. ^"HEC Montréal: Deployment of a Large-Scale Mail Installation".linuxjournal.com. 1 May 2004.Retrieved25 July2010.
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