INTRODUCTION
Open WebMail is a webmail system based on the Neomail version 1.14 from Ernie Miller. Open WebMail is designed to manage very large mail folder files in a memory efficient way. It also provides a range of features to help users migrate smoothly from Microsoft Outlook to Open WebMail.
Official Forum http://openwebmail.org/forum
Freshmeat http://freshmeat.net/projects/openwebmail
Online Demo http://www.postman.net/
MIRRORS
Please use mirror sites near you to avoid overload on official sites!
Sites URL Location Maintainer
Official http://openwebmail.org/openwebmail/ US Thomas Chung
Develop http://turtle.ee.ncku.edu.tw/openwebmail/ Taiwan openwebmail
2 http://openwebmail.luxadmin.org/ LUX http://www.luxadmin.org/
5 http://dp.fce.vutbr.cz/openwebmail/ Brno, Czech Republic, Europe Pavel Schauer
6 http://mirrors.atn.ro/Openwebmail/ Oradea, Romania Bogdan Parcalab
7 http://openwebmail.nlcd.com.cn/ Beijing, China Zhiyao Li
8 http://openwebmail.luxmi.net/ London, UK LuxmiNET
9 http://openwebmail.mybsd.org.my/ SELANGOR, Malaysia Ahmad Faisal
10 http://openwebmail.lagmonster.org/ Los Angeles, USA Taz Meister
11 http://openwebmail.roel.net/ Amsterdam, Netherlands Roel van der Made
12 http://gnu.kookel.org/ftp/openwebmail/ Amsterdam, Netherlands Kelkoo.com GNU Mirrors
13 http://openwebmail.ippartners.pl Tarnow, Poland Tomasz Pajor
15 http://openwebmail.nobandwidth.net Nashua, NH, USA John Cole
16 http://openwebmail.mirrors.redwire.net San Diego, CA, USA Japheth Cleaver
17 http://www.openwebmail.nl/ Amsterdam, Netherlands Tino Donderwinkel
18 http://openwebmail.nigilist.ru/ Moscow, Russia Petya Kohts
19 http://web.lasg.ac.cn/openwebmail/ Beijing, China Wang Jun
20 http://holodeck3.net/owmirror/ St. Petersburg, FL, USA Peter Friedrich
22 http://openwebmail.nameserver.in.th/ Khonkaen, Thailand Pakon Jamsai
23 http://ws182.wts.fi/openwebmail/ Jyvaskyla, Finland Pasi Sjoholm
24 http://mirrors.arad.astral.ro/openwebmail/ Arad, Romania Dani Radulescu
25 http://owm.opensourcerules.net/ Raleigh, NC Sam Gates
26 http://openwebmail.tolix.org/ Burlingame, California, US http://www.tolix.org/
27 http://openwebmail.mirrorplus.org/ Munich, Germany Mirrorplus.org
FEATURES for Users
Auto Login
Each user can determinte if he want to enable the auto login feature in Open WebMail. When enabled, the user don’t have type his username and password in every login to Open WebMail. Open WebMail will do this automatically for him. However, for security reason, the auto login feature will be actived only if user doesn’t log out in previous session and the previous session is still not timeouted. Further more, the sysadm can limit the range of IPs that are allowed to use the auto login feature.
Multiple Languages/Multiple Charsets
Open WebMail is currently available for more than 30 languages, and it is quite easy to add new language to Open WebMail if yours is still not supported. For languages with more than one charsets, Open WebMail will choose one as the default charset for the language. If a message is written with charset other than the default, it will be converted to the default charset automatically.
Strong MIME Message Capability
Open WebMail has very well support for MIME messages. While most webmail packages present MIME messages poorly compared to traditional POP clients, Open Webmail presents MIME messages in an attractive format comparable to that presented by Microsoft Outlook. Either inline or uuencoded attachments are supported.
In addition to the presention, Open WebMail also allow user to compose complex HTML messages with inline attachments or external attachments. A friendly WYSIWYG editor HTMLArea 3.0 has been built into Open WebMail, the user can write HTML messages conformtably and easily without any knowledge of HTML tags. This HTML editor can be used on IE5.5+ for Windows or Mozilla1.3+ for all platforms 🙂
Full Content Search
Full content search with regular expression support is provided. When a user enters a keyword in the search box, the scope of the mail folder is limited to the keyword related messages. This means the user can use the sort or static functions on the search result. The scope limit is released when the user selects another folder or refreshes the current folder.
Draft Folder Support
This feature enables the user to write a message in a number of stages, even over several days. The user can save an unfinished message into the draft folder and continue editing at any time.
Confirm Reading Support
The user can request a ‘confirm-reading receipt’ for each message sent. When the message is read by the recipient, a receipt will be sent back to this user.
Spelling Check Support
The spelling check in Open WebMail is very user-friendly and powerful: It makes suggestions for mis-spelled words, and the user can correct the errors very easily by selecting one of the suggestions from a drop-down menu.
vCard compliant Addressbook
The addressbook is greatly improved by Alex Teslik since 10/30/2004. The new system implements a completely vCard compliant system that is extendable and modular. vCards can be exchanged with any contact software out in the mainstream. This brings OpenWebMail up to date with current address technology and allows sharing of addressbook information among users.
POP3 Support
Multiple POP3 accounts can be defined, allowing a single user to fetch mails from a number of mail servers. All messages fetched will be stored in the INBOX folder. Should the fetch operation exceed 10 seconds (due to a slow link or large message for example), the operation will be put into background to avoid an http timeout.
Mail Filter Support
Multiple filter rules can be set to move or copy incoming mails to different folders automatically or even delete them directly. The user can categorize mails from a specific person or spammer, and identify mails containing viruses very easily by defining rules of sender, receiver, SMTP relay, subject, body or filename of attachments.
In addition to the static filter rules, openwebmail has build-in five smart filters: repeatness filter, bad format from filter, faked smtp filter, faked from filter and faked exe contenttype filter. Repeatness filter, bad format from filter and faked SMTP filter are useful in filtering messages from spammer, faked from filter and faked exe contenttype filter are useful in filtering messages generated from virus.
Since mail filtering is activated only in Open WebMail, messages will stay in the INBOX until the user reads their mail with Open WebMail. ‘finger’ or other mail status check utilities may report new mail incorrectly, since they are not aware of filters: A command tool ‘openwebmail-tool.pl’ is provided for use as finger replacement, which performs mail filtering before reporting mail status.
AntiSpam Support through SpamAssassin
Open WebMail can use the SpamAssassin as the external spamcheck module to scan messages fetched from pop3 servers or all incoming messages. The SpamAssassin will determine a spamlevel for each scanned message based on its content. The user can define a spamlevel threshold for all his messages in Open WebMail, any message with spamlevel more than this threshold will be moved from INBOX to the SPAM folder automatically.
Open WebMail also supports the Spam/NotSpam Learning through the sa-learn program in SpamAssassin. In case the spamlevel determined by SpamAssassin is not very appropriate, the user can train the system by telling it to learn the messages as Spam or NotSpam.
AntiVirus Support through ClamAV
Open WebMail can use the ClamAV as the external viruscheck module to scan messages fetched from pop3 servers or all incoming messages. If a message or its attachments is found to have virus, Open WebMail will move the message from INBOX to the VIRUS folder automatically.
Calendar with Reminder/Notification Support
The user can keep track of their appointments, meetings, birthdays, whatever, with the build-in calendar in Open WebMail. This calendar provides several views, including year view, month view, week view and day view, so the user can browse their scheduled events very easily. There is also reminder support for scheduled events, user can specify the days that the reminder should look ahead and the first 5 upcoming events will be displayed in the top of mail folder view. If the user want the event reminder to be available outside the webmail system, he can also specify a notification email address, eg: the one used by mobile phone, for each scheduled event, so he can get notification of these events on his mobile phone.
Webdisk Support
The webdisk module provides a web interface for user to use his home directory as a virtual disk on the web. It is also designed as a storage of the mail attachments, the user can freely copy attachments between mail messages and the webdisk.
The / of the virtual disk is mapped to the user’s home directory, any item displayed in the virtual disk is actually located under the user home directory.
Webdisk supports basic file operations, eg: mkdir, rmdir, copy, move, rm, file upload and download. Download of multiple files or directories is supported, webdisk compresses the files into a zip stream on the fly in the transmission. It also handle many types of archives, including zip, arj, rar, tar.gz, tar.bz, tar.bz2, tgz, tbz, gz, z…. The user can compress, decompress or list the contents of archives without copying them into his computer.
HTTP Compression
Open WebMail supports compression of HTML content over HTTP. With compression turned on, the average page size has been reduced for over 80%. This feature effectively reduces the use of nework bandwidth between the client computer and the webmail server and is very useful for users with slow connection to the webmail server, eg: dialup users, PDA users.
FEATURES for System
Fast Folder Access
Folder access performance is greatly improved through the use of dbm (a simple database provided by perl). When a mail folder is selected in the folder view, Open WebMail will parse the mail folder file and cache the parsed result to a dbm. This dbm is reused whenever the user wants to access the folder. The dbm cache eliminates the scan of an entire folder for every access, a significant benefit when dealing with a large folders. The dbm is automatically synchronized with any changes to the folder itself; the dbm update is incremental if the folder modification is done by the Open WebMail application itself. The dbm will however be recreated when a folder is found to have been changed by an external program.
Efficient Message Movement
The size of a message will be slightly increased after it is read at the first time because of status change. A large movement of messages may be introduced due to the size change. Also, the user may want to move a group of messages between two folders. The routines for message update and movement have been totally rewritten so that minimal movement occurs, with correspondingly minimal memory utilization.
Smaller Memory Footprint
Much effort has been put into optimizing Open WebMail’s memory utilization. The memory footprint of Open WebMail is much smaller than its predecessors when dealing with messages with large attachments (e.g. a 20MB document), as a result of which the application now runs smoothly on a medium sized machine, (e.g. a Celeron 300 with 128MB RAM).
Graceful File Lock
Since a mail folder may be used by multiple programs simultaneously, it is necessary to lock the file before accessing the folder. Open WebMail uses a blocking lock with a timeout limit of 60 seconds. It gives the lock a better chance of success than a nonblocking lock, which returns an error if the lock can not be acquired immediately. Open WebMail also supports locking by dotlock file to ensure that the file locking operates correctly on platforms operating with an incomplete implementation of NFS lockd.
Persistent Running through SpeedyCGI
SpeedyCGI is a way to run perl scripts persistently, which can make openwebmail run much more quickly. It uses machnism similar to mod_perl or FastCGI. Open WebMail has been modified to work with SpeedyCGI. All you have to do is to install the SpeedyCGI package and change the interpreter for openwebmail scripts. Kevin L. Ellis has written a tutorial and benchmark for Open WebMail + SpeedyCGI.
Remote SMTP Relaying
With the help of Net::SMTP module, openwebmail can talk SMTP to SMTP daemons on either localhost or remote machine. This gives openwebmail the better compatibility with various SMTP daemons. The system administrator also has more flexibility when designing the mail service system.
Various Authentication Modules
Various authentication modules are directly available for openwebmail, including auth_unix.pl, auth_ldap.pl, auth_mysql.pl, auth_pgsql.pl and auth_pop3.pl, auth_vm-pop3d.pl. With these modules, openwebmail can be integrated with other systems easily.
PAM support
Openwebmail can also use other sources for authentication through the PAM (pluggable authentication module). Ex: NIS+, NIS, LDAP, Radius…. Solaris 2.6, Linux and FreeBSD 3.1 are known to support PAM. For more information about PAM, please see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
Virtual Hosting
You can have as many virtual domains as you want on same server with only one copy of openwebmail installed. Open Webmail supports per domain config file. Each domain can have its own set of configuration options, including domainname, authentication module, quota limit, mailspooldir …
You can even setup mail accounts for users without creating real unix accounts for them. Please refer to Kevin Ellis’s web page: “How to setup virtual users on Open WebMail using Postfix & vm-pop3d”
User Alias
Open Webmail can use the sendmail virtusertable for user alias mapping. The loginname typed by user may be pure name or name@somedomain. And this loginname can be mapped to another pure name or name@otherdomain in the virtusertable. This gives you the great flexibility in account management. For example, you may have john for different domains by actually mapping them to different real user ids.
john@domain1.com john1
john@domain2.com john2
john@domain3.com john3
Pure Virtual User Support
Pure virtual user means a mail user who can use pop3 or openwebmail to access his mails on the mail server but actually has no unix account on the server. Openwebmail pure virtual user support is currently available for system running vm-pop3d + PostFix. The authentication module auth_vdomain.pl is designed for this purpose. Openwebmail also provides the web interface which can be used to manage(add/delete/edit) these virtual users under various virtual domains. Kevin L. Ellis has written a tutorial for openwebmail + vm-pop3d + postfix for this.
Per User Capability Configuration
While options in system config file(openwebmail.conf) are applied to all users, you may find it useful to set the options on per user basis sometimes. For example, you may want to limit the client ip access for some users or limit the domain which the user can sent to. This could be easily done with the per user config file support in Open Webmail.
There are too many other small enhancements to mention. You may choose to find them by yourself…
AUTHENTICATION MODULES
Open Webmail has the following modules to support different types of authentication:
Name Description Maintainer
auth_ldap.pl authenticate user with LDAP Ivan Cerrato
auth_ldap_vpopmail.pl authenticate user with LDAP for vpopmail Andrea Siviero
auth_mysql.pl authenticate user with MySQL (through DBD::MySQL interface) Alan Sung
auth_mysql_postnuke.pl authenticate user with MySQL in PostNuke (through DBD::MySQL interface) Didier MICHAUT
auth_mysql_vmail.pl authenticate user with MySQL under vmail (through DBD::MySQL interface) Zoltan Kovacs
auth_nis.pl authenticate user with yppoppassd on NIS/YP server Vladimir M Costa
auth_pam.pl authenticate user with PAM openwebmail, Taco Scargo
auth_pgsql.pl authenticate user with PostgreSQL (through DBD::Pg interface)) Oliver Smith
auth_pgsql.pl authenticate user with PostgreSQL (through native interface) Veselin Slavov
auth_pop3.pl authenticate user through pop3 server openwebmail
auth_unix.pl authenticate user with unix passwd openwebmail, Trevor Paquett
auth_vdomain.pl authenticate user of virtual domain on system running vm-pop3d & postfix openwebmail
LANGUAGES
Open Webmail is available for the following languages:
Language Abbreviation Charset Lang/Templates Translation Help Translation
Arabic – Windows ar.CP1256 windows-1256 01/24/2005 Isam Ishaq
Arabic – ISO 8859-6 ar.ISO8859-6 iso-8859-6 01/24/2005 Isam Ishaq
Bulgarian bg windows-1251 02/15/2005 Veselin Slavov
Catalan ca iso-8859-1 02/23/2005 Jordi Sanfeliu,
05/21/2002 Jordi Vidal
Czech cs iso-8859-2 03/03/2005 Milan Kerslager,
02/25/2003 Pavel Schauer,
01/06/2003 Jan Bilik,
11/15/2001 Michal Drapak
Chinese – Simplified zh_CN.GB2312 gb2312 09/04/2004 Wang Jun Wang Jun
Chinese – Simplified – Unicode zh_CN.utf8 utf-8 from zh_CN.GB2312
Chinese – Traditional zh_TW.Big5 big5 up to date openwebmail Alex Huang
Chinese – Traditional – Unicode zh_TW.utf8 utf-8 from zh_TW.Big5
Croatian hr iso-8859-2 01/28/2005 Igor Zivkovic
Danish da iso-8859-1 03/11/2005 Gunner Poulsen,
03/05/2003 Frank
Deutsch de iso-8859-1 02/13/2005 Martin Bronk,
09/13/2003 Markus Zander,
02/08/2003 Christian Schoepplein,
06/14/2001 Andreas Roedl
Dutch nl iso-8859-1 01/28/2005 Jeroen Visser and Robert den Ouden,
10/12/2001 Christian Boer,
06/28/2001 Michiel van Slobbe Jeroen Visser and Robert den Ouden
English en iso-8859-1 up to date openwebmail William Brillinger,
Brent Epp
Finnish fi iso-8859-1 12/30/2004 Pasi Sjoholm,
11/20/2002 Kari Paivarinta,
02/19/2002 Jouni Kivilahti,
02/19/2002 Helja Laitinen
French fr iso-8859-1 02/24/2005 Dominique Fournier,
09/26/2004 Nabil SEFRIOUI,
01/22/2003 Stephane HERMET,
03/21/2002 Cyril Sabatier Frederic GLISE
Hellenic/Greek el iso-8859-7 02/16/2005 Dimitris sehh Michelinakis
Hebrew – Windows he.CP1255 windows-1255 09/27/2003 Yehuda Drori, Shay Sevet
Hebrew – ISO 8859-8 he.ISO8859-8 iso-8859-8 03/26/2003 Yehuda Drori
Hungarian hu iso-8859-2 04/29/2005 Posz Marton,
02/21/2003 Peter Gervai,
01/29/2003 Nagy Endre
Indonesian id iso-8859-1 04/29/2005 Captain James,
04/02/2002 Hu-Wei Liang Captain James
Italian it iso-8859-1 11/25/2004 Benedet Marvi
Japanese – ShiftJIS ja_JP.Shift_JIS shift_jis from ja_JP.utf8
Japanese – eucJP ja_JP.eucJP euc-jp from ja_JP.utf8
Japanese – Unicode ja_JP.utf8 utf-8 12/23/2004 Hidetoshi,
04/25/2003 Captain James and Interactive Artists, LLC
Korean ko euc-kr 03/11/2005 Sungjun Park,
06/24/2003 Thomas Chung,
12/31/2001 Moonsang Kwon
Lithuanian lt windows-1257 01/16/2003 Alvydas Sinkunas
Norwegian no iso-8859-1 12/19/2003 Are Tysland
Polish pl iso-8859-2 02/13/2005 Pawel Foremski,
08/18/2004 Mikolaj Menke,
03/13/2003 Pawel Jablonski,
06/03/2002 Grzegorz Nosek,
04/26/2002 Michal Talecki
Portuguese pt iso-8859-1 06/18/2003 Jose Ferradeira
Portuguese Brazil pt_BR iso-8859-1 05/12/2005 Julio Cesar Cunha,
02/25/2003 Vladimir M Costa,
08/28/2002 Rui – iG,
09/20/2001 Edison Figueira Junior Edison Figueira Junior
Romanian ro iso-8859-2 02/23/2005 Gabriel Hojda,
07/04/2003 Zeno Popovici,
06/03/2002 Vladimir Hrusca
Romanian -Unicode ro.utf8 utf-8 02/23/2005 Gabriel Hojda
Russian ru koi8-r 08/22/2004 Oleg Dzyza,
03/07/2002 Denis Mysenko
Serbian sr iso-8859-2 07/27/2004 Aleksandar Pejic
Slovak sk iso-8859-2 06/18/2004 Peter Sedivy,
09/13/2003 Lubos Klokner
Slovenian sl windows-1250 02/15/2005 Uros Sajko
Spanish es iso-8859-1 02/23/2005 Javier Smaldone Javier Smaldone
Swedish sv iso-8859-1 07/22/2001 Goran Jartin
Thai th tis-620 06/24/2005 Atsawin Chaowanakritsanakul
Turkish tr iso-8859-9 01/29/2003 Erdinc Guler
Ukrainian uk koi8-u 05/25/2003 Volodymyr M. Lisivka
Urdu ur utf-8 03/29/2003 Muhammad Umair Abbasi
Some Language Charset Resources are available at
IANA: Official Names for Character Sets
W3C: Charsets supported by some popular HTML applications
W3C: Languages, countries and the charsets typically used
Mirosoft: Character Set Recognition
Mirosoft: Valid Locale Identifiers
Icon Sets
Open Webmail has the following iconsets which could be choosed in per user preference.
Iconsec Name Creator/Maintainer
Adjunct.(Blue|Metal|Silver) 01/27/2004 Sergio Bukhgalter
Cool3D up to date Emir Litric, openwebmail
Cool3D.Czech 09/14/2004 Jan Bilik
Cool3D.Chinese.Simplified 10/19/2002 Compass Studio WebMail System
Cool3D.Chinese.Traditional
up to date openwebmail
Cool3D.Danish 02/18/2005 Gunner Poulsen
Cool3D.Deutsch 01/05/2005 Martin Bronk,
08/05/2002 Ralf Becker
Cool3D.Dutch 08/23/2002 Jan Houtsma
Cool3D.English up to date openwebmail
Cool3D.Hellenic 10/04/2004 Dimitris sehh Michelinakis
Cool3D.Hebrew 09/27/2003 Yehuda Drori
Cool3D.Italian 07/26/2002 Andrea Partinico
Cool3D.Japan 12/23/2004 Hidetoshi
Cool3D.Korean 11/02/2003 Youngho Kang
Cool3D.Norwegian 06/18/2002 Are Tysland
Cool3D.Polish 05/06/2005 Tomasz Wieckowski
Cool3D.Portuguese.Brazilian 10/30/2004 Julio Cesar Cunha, Jordi S. Bunster
Cool3D.Russian 01/20/2005 Oleg Dzyza
Cool3D.Slovak 11/23/2002 Lubos Klokner
Cool3D.Spanish 12/05/2004 Jaime Caballero
Cool3D.Turkish 07/28/2002 Erdinc Guler
Cool3D.Urdu 05/25/2003 Muhammad Umair Abbasi
Default up to date Emir Litric, openwebmail
Default.Chinese.Traditional up to date openwebmail
Default.Deutsch 08/05/2002 Ralf Becker
Default.Norwegian 08/20/2002 Are Tysland
Default.Polish 05/10/2005 Tomasz Wieckowski
Default.Slovak 11/23/2002 Lubos Klokner
Default.Spanish 12/26/2001 Javier Smaldone
XP.(Blue|Green|Purple|Red) 03/03/2003 Alexander Mutsaers
BASED SOFTWARES
Thanks to Ernie Miller. His great work Neomail provided the solid foundation upon which Open WebMail was built. Without Neomail, there would be no Open WebMail.
Thanks to Michael Arndt. The web calendar support in openwebmail is based on his great code in WebCal 1.12.
Thanks to Joshua Cantara, the web based spelling check is based on his code in WBOSS 1.5a.
Thanks to Sam Horrocks. who wrote the SpeedyCGI package, which is a perl accelerator by making script resident in memory. It improves the performance of Open WebMail for 5x-10x speedup. Sam also provided the fix for setuid scripts to us, so Open WebMail can be used with SpeedyCGI on Solaris.
Thanks to interactivetools.com. who wrote the great HTMLArea editor, and released it under BSD like licence. The HTML message composing support in openwebmail is based on this wonderful product.
Thanks to Mats Andersson, who wrote the Mindterm, a SSH client implemented as a Java applet, and released it under GPL. The SSH terminal support in openwebmail is actually using the great software.
Thanks to
Nikolay Pelov, the PAM support in openwebmail is mostly from the example code in his perl Authen::PAM module.
RELATED LINKS
Thanks to Kevin Lo, who made the OpenBSD port for openwebmail.
Thanks to Yen-Ming Lee, who made the FreeBSD port for openwebmail.
Thanks to Torsten Brumm, who made the Linux/Suse package for openwebmail. He also wrote an install script install-owm-suse.sh to help the users installing Open WebMail and related packages from source.
Thanks to Sergio Rua, who made the Linux/Debian package for openwebmail.
Thanks to Leslie Herps and raqtweak.com, who made the free Cobalt package of latest openwebmail, they also provide at very low cost.
Thanks to Brian N. Smith, who made of openwebmail 2.10.
Thanks to Laurent Frigault, who has made an unoffical release of .
Thanks to Varadi Gabor, who has made a maildir patch for 2.32 based on Laurent Frigult’s implementation.
We hope we can merge the maildir support into main stream in the future.
Thanks to Darren Stuart Embry, who has made an unoffical release of. We hope we can merge it into main stream in the future.
Thanks to Helmut Grund who has written
Thanks to Kevin Ellis, who fixed the bugs related to virtual user and option auth_withdomain so openwebmail could work smoothly with vm-pop3d. Please refer to Kevin’s web page “How to setup virtual users on Open WebMail using Postfix & vm-pop3d”.
Kevin was also the first one that successfully ran Open WebMail in persistent mode under SpeedyCGI, which brought great speedup to Open WebMail. Please refer to his document : .
Thanks to Guillermo Soria, who translated the Kevin’s Howto into Spanish “Howto Open WebMail usando Postifx y vm-pop3d”.
Thanks to _KhlER3L, who wrote the document Customizing the look of Open WebMail v1.65
Thanks to Nimrod Zimerman and Nimrod S. Carmi, who contributed the useraddbyweb package in contrib/. This allows users to be added to a Linux system dynamically through web sign-up.
Thanks to Fr. V. Chua, S.J., who wrote the How to Install document for this useraddbyweb package.
Thanks to Herr Doktor C. Lesser, who provided free webmail accounts on site http://mail.ipspace.com with the openwebmail package.
Thanks to Arthur Corliss, who provided free webmail accounts on site http://www.postman.net/ with the openwebmail package. He also released the automatic sign-up program adduser.pl-0.2.tar.gz for linux platform.
USER CONTRIBUTIONS
Thanks to Thomas Chung, who donated the domain openwebmail.org to the Open Webmail project, setup openwebmail.org site and maintained the RPM package for Open Webmail on RedHat/Linux platform. He also helped other users to solve problems on installing Open Webmail. Thank you, Thomas!
Thanks to Emir Litric for his great works of art. He made all the great 3D icons and the many fancy styles in Open WebMail, and maintained the doc/RedHat-README.txt. He is now one of the authors of Open Webmail.
Thanks to Dattola Filippo, who wrote the advanced search module and stationery module in the openwebmail. He also wrote the patch to support mark read operation on whole folder, save message to draft if sendmail error and fixed the bug that the ‘ and \ chars in filterrule will be eat by javascript
Thanks to Bernd Bass, who wrote the vdomain module which can be used to manage the vm-pop3d/postfix virtual domain users.
Thanks to Scott Mazur who has written the openwebmail-vdomain.pl to add the forward, autoreply and vdomain_mailbox_command support for vdomain users. He also made a lot changes to the core system for better performance.
Thanks to Auktionshaus Software who has implemented the new vCard compliant addressbook system for openwebmail, he also greatly improved the web calendar by writing the new dayview code, item update routines and DHTML popup calendar support.
Thanks to Brent Epp and William Brillinger of Precision Design Co., Altona, Manitoba, Canada., who wrote the great help tutorial for openwebmail.
Thanks to Norvasen who has had hosted hardware, DNS and bandwidth for openwebmail.org for over 18 months.
Thanks to Pentecost Inc. for their consulting expertise and operational support.
Thanks to Russ Reese, the login alias/mapping is based on his patch code and idea.
Thanks to Dugal James P., who submitted the patches for PAM support, automated DST adjustment, internal msg detection on Solaris dtmail, disallowed_pop3servers option, fix for passwdfile in NIS+, fix for user homedir in sun automounter and fix to the content-type header error in attachment downloading.
Thanks to Raul Monferrer, who submitted the patch for multiple dictionaries support in spellcheck.
Thanks to James Dean Palmer, who contributed the support for new mail headers: In-Reply-To, References and X-Status. He also wrote a new sort method “by thread” for folderview, added the ‘A’ flag display of answered messages and made the from column more concise by cutting it off at .AT. symbol if it is a pure address.
Thanks to Nimal Ratnayake, who submitted the patch for .forward editing.
Thanks to Chen-hsiu Huang, who fixed the templates to solve the display problem on Mozilla/Netscape browser and added support for ‘markasread’.
Thanks to Carl Olsen, who contributed the code of using Net::SMTP module. This allows openwebmail to use other host as SMTP relay for mail sending.
Thanks to Brian Suttonb, who contributed the Hotmail style definition file.
Thanks to Ivan Cerrato, who contributed the LDAP authentication module(auth_ldap.pl) and script add_user.pl to add an user account on a LDAP server
Thanks to Volodymyr M. Lisivka, who patched the openwebmail-spell.pl to check vocabularies composed by characters other than English letters.
Thanks to Frank.AT.post12.tele.dk, who has fixed a lot of bugs in checkmail.pl so it can work correctly with server of pure virtual user configuration. He also provided the idea and code for disable_embedded_CGI option and suggested the use of $ENV{SCRIPT_FILENAME} so *.pl can find required modules automatically
Thanks to Chris Heegard, who provided the information of how to use openwebmail on Mac OS X and suggested the use of wrapsuid.pl to generate C wrappers for suid scripts.
Thanks to A.Johnson Jeba Asir, who fixed the hang problem in attachment uploading caused by a bug in encode_base64() in mime.pl
Thanks to Koppi, who fixed the bug related to the variable localization behavior in ‘foreach’ statement.
Thanks to Oliver Schindler, who helped to debug the insecure dependence error due to tainted variables
Thanks to Veselin Slavov, who contributed the PostgreSQL authentication module (auth_pg.pl, pgsql interface) and submitted the patch to add selection menu of logindomain at login
Thanks to Kelson Vibber, who fixed a serious bug in auth_ldap.pl, a bug in smiley code in readmessage and added %1 variable support to virtusertable
Thanks to Trevor Paquette, who made fix for option domainname_override and folderusage_threshold and the auth_module auth_unix_cobalt.pl for Cobalt server.
Thanks to Andrea Partinico, who made the mkcool3d_en.sh and mkcool3d_it.sh under uty/, which can be used to generate the Cool3D iconsets for different languages. The Cool3D.Large.English and Cool3D.Italian is made with these scripts.
Thanks to Neil Inns, who donated the openwebmail.con domainname to this project.
Thanks to Ralf Becker, who submitted the patch that added preliminary subdir support to mailfolder.
Thanks to James Briggs, who provided the great help in testing and debugging the charset conversion for Japanese language.
Thanks to Isam Ishaq, who provided suggestions and helped openwebmail to support languages in RTL(right-to-left) mode, eg: Arabic, Hebrew.
Thanks to Javier Smaldone who provided the enhance code to addressbook popup window. The user can set default filter for listed entries, and the checked entries will be remembered even after filter statement is changed.
Thanks to Scott E. Campbell who added the personal dictionary support to spellcheck
Thanks to Dao-hui Chen who added the SSL support for pop3 messages retrival.
CONTACT
If you encountered any problem with Open Webmail, please check changes.txt to see if the problem is fixed in the latest current version. If not, try the readme.txt and faq.txt.
If you want to seek help, please post your problem in the openwebmail forum.
If you want to submit patch or bug-report, please email to openwebmail.AT.turtle.ee.ncku.edu.tw
If you want to mirror this site, please use this script.
Please DO NOT email questions/problems to openwebmail.AT.turtle.ee.ncku.edu.tw or the authors directly, they will be just simplely ignored. We would prefer to do the discussion on the forum thus the information could be shared by others.
OPENWEBMAIL TEAM
The Open WebMail is brought to you by
Chung-Kie Tung 董仲愷
Nai-Jung Kuo éƒä¹ƒæ¦®
Chao-Chiu Wang 王詔丘
Emir Litric
Thomas Chung
Filippo Dattola
Bernd Bass
Scott Mazur
Alex Teslik
Distributed System Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering
National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C.