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.
LINKS
FEATURES
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.
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.
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.
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.GB2312.utf8 |
utf-8 |
from zh_CN.GB2312
|
|
| Chinese - Traditional |
zh_TW.Big5 |
big5 |
up to date openwebmail
|
Alex Huang |
| Chinese - Traditional - Unicode |
zh_TW.Big5.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 |
01/07/2005 Posz Marton,
02/21/2003 Peter Gervai,
01/29/2003 Nagy Endre
|
|
| Indonesian |
id |
iso-8859-1 |
01/24/2005 Captain James,
04/02/2002 Hu-Wei Liang
|
|
| 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 |
04/10/2004 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 |
12/31/2003 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
|
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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.
BASED SOFTWARES
RELATED LINKS
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Thanks to Kevin Lo,
who made the
OpenBSD port
for openwebmail.
-
Thanks to Yen-Ming Lee,
who made the FreeBSD port
for openwebmail.
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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.
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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 openwebmail installation service at very low cost.
Thanks to Brian N. Smith,
who made
Sun Cobalt package of openwebmail 2.10.
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Thanks to Laurent Frigault,
who has made an unoffical release of
openwebmail-2.01 with maildir support.
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
openwebmail-2.10 with shared calendar support.
We hope we can merge it into main stream in the future.
-
Thanks to Helmut Grund
who has written
the Webmin module for Open Webmail
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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 :
a tutorial and benchmark for Open WebMail + SpeedyCGI.
-
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
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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.
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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.
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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 Alex
Teslik 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.
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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
Distributed System Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering
National Cheng-Kung University,
Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Jan/06/2005
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