Quick list of open-source webmail clients

Cory Doctorow recently wrote about Mailpile, an Indiegogo-based effort to fund development of a new open-source web-based E-Mail client.

I really have to wonder, does the world really need another such client? Here is a bunch of them:

• Roundcube – Written in PHP with a moderm AJAX UI.
• The Horde Project – Not only provides E-Mail, but a full groupware suit.
• Zimbra – Not only provides a client but also a full server that can replace Microsoft Excange.
• SquirrlMail – Includes a rather old style UI, but seems to be very popular. Most web hosting providers support installing it directly with their site management tools.
• Mailr – Not very pretty, but written with Ruby On Rails, if you don’t want to run PHP.
• And many, many, more.

I’ve been running my own mail sever for years. In my view, that is where the bigger  problems are, the constant flood of spam and other E-Mail attacks, seems to have led most internet service providers to block all E-Mail sent from anyone who doesn’t look like a large service provider. When running my own server I’d often find out that my mail get rejected unless I relay it through such a provider.