Wednesday 4 July 2012

Email Clients - Open Source & Freeware

Email Clients - Open Source

Alpine
Alpine is a free software email client developed at the University of Washington.
Alpine 1.0 was publicly released on December 20, 2007.
The name "Alpine" stands for Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email. Alpine is a rewrite of the Pine Message System that adds support for Unicode and other features. Alpine is meant to be suitable for both inexperienced email users and the most demanding of power users. Alpine is developed at the University of Washington, as was Pine before it. Alpine can be learned by exploration and the use of context-sensitive help. The user interface can be customized.


Arachne
Arachne is a full-screen Internet suite containing a graphical web browser, email client, and dialer. It primarily runs on DOS based operating systems, but includes builds for Linux as well. It should not be used with X. Arachne was originally created by Michal Polák (under the label xChaos software, later renamed to Arachne Labs) in the C language and compiled using Borland C++ 3.1 compiler, but since been released under the GPL as Arachne GPL


Balsa
Balsa is a lightweight email client for GNOME. Balsa has a graphical front end, support for MIME attachments coming and going, directly supports POP3 and IMAP protocols. It has a spell checker and direct support for PGP and GPG for encryption. It has some basic filtering capabilities, and natively supports several email storage protocols. It also has some internationalization support, including Japanese fonts. It builds on top of these other open source packages: GNOME, libtool, libESMTP, aspell, and gmime. It also can optionally use libgtkhtml for HTML rendering, libkrb5 for GSS-API, and openldap for LDAP functionality. It can optionally be configured to use gpg-error and gpgme libraries.


Citadel UX
Citadel/UX (typically referred to simply as "Citadel") is a collaboration suite (messaging and groupware) that is descended from the Citadel family of programs which became popular in the 1980s and 1990s as a bulletin board system platform. It is designed to run on open source operating systems such as Linux or BSD. Although it is being used for many bulletin board systems, in 1998 the developers began to expand its functionality to a general purpose groupware platform. In order to modernize the Citadel platform for the Internet, the Citadel/UX developers added functionality such as shared calendars, instant messaging, and built-in implementations of Internet protocols such as SMTP, IMAP, Sieve, POP3, GroupDAV and XMPP. All protocols offer OpenSSL encryption for additional security. Users of Citadel/UX systems also have available to them a web-based user interface which employs Ajax style functionality to allow application-like interaction with the system. Citadel uses the Berkeley DB database for all of its data stores, including the message base.
The software is open source, and released under the GPL.

classilla
Classilla is a Gecko-based web browser for PowerPC-based classic Macintosh systems, essentially an updated descendant of the now-defunct Mozilla Application Suite by way of the Mac OS port maintained in the now-aborted WaMCom project. The name is a portmanteau of Classic (the classic Mac OS, as defined by the Classic Environment), and Mozilla

  
Columba
Columba is an open source email client for Unix-like operating systems and Windows, written in Java


Claws Mail


Claws Mail is a free, GTK+-based, open source email and news client. It offers easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format and also the Mbox mailbox format via a plugin. Claws Mail runs on both Windows and Unix-like systems such as Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X.


Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform email and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser. On December 7, 2004, version 1.0 was released, and received over 500,000 downloads in its first three days of release, and 1,000,000 in 10 days.



Gnuzilla
Gnuzilla, or GNUzilla, is a derivative of the Mozilla Application Suite created by the GNU Project as an attempt to be entirely free software. The reasons being that while the Mozilla project produces free and open software, the binaries released included additional non-free software in the form of Talkback, a crash reporter. In addition, non-free software is also distributed as plugins. Despite this fork, the Gnuzilla and Mozilla projects will continue to synchronize with upstream releases in the future and keeps the triple-licensing to facilitate the reuse of code. 


Spicebird
Spicebird is a personal information manager based on Mozilla Thunderbird's code developed by an Indian company called Synovel. It is free and open source software. It provides e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging. It can be used for personal or office use to access your email, calendar information and various instant messaging (or chat) accounts. The integrated instant messenger can connect to GTalk, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, XMPP and various other servers and protocols. It has a dashboard that provides gadgets for showing information such as new emails, schedule for the day and many more. iGoogle gadgets can also be added to the dashboard.



Email Clients - Freeware

http://www.incredimail.com
IncrediMail Xe is an email client by Perion Network Ltd. that lets you add e-mail Backgrounds, Emoticons, Ecards, Sounds, Animations, and 3D effects to your e-mails. Users who download IncrediMail have access to these contents directly from within the IncrediMail client. IncrediMail Xe is used on the Microsoft Windows operating system and is free to download from IncrediMail's download page. IncrediMail enables importing of active email accounts and messages into one email manager for easy access. The email program is compatible with leading email services including Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! and AOL, and supports POP3 mail protocols as well as HTML mail formatting. The program includes advanced message filtering, an automatic spell checker, and font style preferences among other features and capabilities.

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