| Application | Package | Version | Worked By | URLs | Comment | Status |
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| Mail Transfer Agents | ||||||
exim | exim | 4.20 | Maintainers |
| Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. It is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence. In style it is similar to Smail 3, but its facilities are more general. |  |
zmailer | zmailer | 2.99.55 | Maintainers |
| Zmailer is an internet message transfer agent intended for gateways or mail servers or other large site environments that have extreme demands on the abilities of the mailer. The creation of this project was motivated by the problems of the Sendmail design in such situations. | |
sendmail | sendmail | 8.12.9 | Maintainers |
| Sendmail is probably the best known and most widely used mail transport agent in the Internet. However, as its story is full of security problems, we don't recommend its usage. | |
qmail | qmail | 1.03 | Felix Von Leitner |
| qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It is designed for typical Internet-connected UNIX hosts. It seems that the development of qmail has been stopped and that the project is unmaintained. |  |
postfix | postfix | native since 2.2.0 | Maintainers |
| Postfix is Wietse Venema's mailer that started life as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not upset existing users. Thus, the outside has a sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is completely different. Based on patch from Dean Strike. | |
courier | courier | 0.42.2 | Maintainers |
| The Courier mail transfer agent is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols, such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single, consistent, framework. Individual components can be enabled or disabled at will. | |
| Mail Retrieval Agents | ||||||
fetchmail | fetchmail | 6.2.2 | Maintainers |
| Fetchmail is a full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports every remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, ETRN, and ODMR. It can even support IPv6 and IPSEC. | |
| Mail User Agents | ||||||
mutt | mutt | 1.4.1 | Maintainers |
| Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems that features native support for POP and IMAP over IPv6. | |
sylpheed | sylpheed | 0.9.6 | Maintainers |
| Sylpheed is an e-mail client and news reader based on GTK+ and running on X Window System. | |
sylpheed-claws | sylpheed-claws | 0.9.5 | Maintainers |
| Sylpheed-claws is a bleeding edge branch of the sylpheed e-mail client and news reader, with lots of new features. | |
KMail | KDE | 3.1.2 | Maintainers |
| KMail is the excellent Mail User Agent included in the K Desktop Environment. | |
mozilla-mail | mozilla | since 1.4 | Maintainers |
| Mozilla is world-class open source browser that is designed from the ground up to support open internet standards across a variety of platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, Solaris, and many more. Mozilla provides users with acclaimed browsing convenience along with power features such as pop-up blocking and tabbed browsing. The Mozilla mail client natively supports SMTP, POP3 and IMAP4 over IPv6. Mozilla 1.4 doesn't fully support IPv6 on the Win32 platform. | |
thunderbird | thunderbird | since 1.0 | Maintainers |
| Thunderbird is world-class open source e-mail client that is based on Mozilla. Since version 1.5 IPv6 is also supported on Win32 platform. | |
ximian-evolution | evolution | 1.4.5 | Maintainers |
| Ximian Evolution is the award-winning personal and workgroup information management solution for Linux and UNIX-based systems. The software seamlessly integrates email, calendaring, meeting scheduling, contact management, and task lists, in one powerful, fast, and easy-to-use application. | |
alpine | alpine | 2.0 | Maintainers |
| alpine is the successor of pine and is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. alpine was developed by Computing & Communications at the University of Washington. See also http://www.washington.edu/alpine/tech-notes/installation.html . | |
pine | pine | 4.58 | Rafael Martinez Torres |
| Pine is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. Pine was developed by Computing & Communications at the University of Washington. Though originally designed for inexperienced email users, Pine has evolved to support many advanced features, and an ever-growing number of configuration and personal-preference options. Pine is available for Unix as well as for personal computers running a Microsoft operating system (PC-Pine). |  |
| Application | Package | Version | Worked By | URLs | Comment | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox daemons | ||||||
solidpop3d | solidpop3d | 0.15 | Maintainers |
| The SolidPop3 POP3 Server is a fully RFC1939-compliant implementation of a Post Office Protocol version 3 server that has flexibility as its main goal. The server is easily configurable and supports many features such as: APOP authentication scheme, virtual hosting, maildir and mailbox handling, bulletins and expiration of messages. | |
courier-pop3d | courier | 0.42.2 | Maintainers |
| The Courier mail transfer agent is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols, such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single, consistent, framework. Individual components can be enabled or disabled at will. | |
courier-imapd | courier | 0.42.2 | Maintainers |
| The Courier mail transfer agent is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols, such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single, consistent, framework. Individual components can be enabled or disabled at will. The Courier IMAP server is also available as a standalone package. | |
cyrus-imapd | cyrus-imapd | 2.2.1-BETA | Maintainers |
| The Cyrus IMAP server differs from other IMAP server implementations in that it is generally intended to be run on sealed servers, where normal users are not permitted to log in. The mailbox database is stored in parts of the filesystem that are private to the Cyrus IMAP system. All user access to mail is through the IMAP, POP3, or KPOP protocols. The Cyrus IMAP server software comes with a compatibility POP3 server. The 2.2.x is the development branch of cyrus-imapd which features virtual domain and native IPv6 support. At the moment the latest development release of the Cyrus IMAP server is 2.2.1-BETA and its code is to be considered of beta quality. | |
cyrus-imapd | cyrus-imapd | 2.1.15 | Hajimu UMEMOTO |
| The Cyrus IMAP server differs from other IMAP server implementations in that it is generally intended to be run on sealed servers, where normal users are not permitted to log in. The mailbox database is stored in parts of the filesystem that are private to the Cyrus IMAP system. All user access to mail is through the IMAP, POP3, or KPOP protocols. The Cyrus IMAP server software comes with a compatibility POP3 server. The 2.1.x is the stable branch of cyrus-imapd. At the moment the latest stable release of the Cyrus IMAP server is 2.1.15. | |
dovecot | dovecot | 0.99.10.6 | Maintainers |
| Dovecot is an IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. Although it's written with C, it uses several coding techniques to avoid most of the common pitfalls. Dovecot can work with standard mbox and maildir formats and it's fully compatible with UW-IMAP and Courier IMAP servers as well as mail clients accessing the mailboxes directly. | |
bincimapd | Binc IMAP | 1.2.10 | Maintainers |
| Binc IMAP is a well designed, modular IMAP server for Maildir. Its goals are to be secure, stable, and fast, yet flexible and easy to maintain. | |
| Application | Package | Version | Worked By | URLs | Comment | Status |
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| Webmail | ||||||
courier-webmail | courier | 0.42.2 | Maintainers |
| The Courier mail transfer agent is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols, such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single, consistent, framework. Individual components can be enabled or disabled at will. The web CGI client is also available as the standalone SqWebMail package. | |