"Gmail clone" Webmail Client

[erikcw]

Hi all,

I've been using Gmail for a couple of months now, and I love it! The whole concept of having messages in "conversations" and the google powered search features are just so powerful.

The problem I have is that I am now spoiled by gmail, and don't really want to go back to Horder/IMB, Squirelmail, Neomail, etc on my own server. (and no, forwarding all of my mail into my gmail account is not a realistic option...)

Does anyone know of any mail clients that are available (or soon will be available) which have similar features? (opensource is of course preferable, but I would also be interested in a looking at a commercial product).

Thanks!
Erik

[bill]

Opera's M2 is what you should look at if you want those features.

[erikcw]

M2 looks great for the desktop - but I am looking for a webmail client. Something I can install on my server...

[claus]

ZOË is what you need - it has a built in server and everything runs in a browser. It was Gmail before Gmail.

It's quite easy to import mail from pop as well as imap or files in the mbox format, and it doesn't have that 1Gb limit.

added:
>> The whole concept of having messages in "conversations" and
>> the google powered search features are just so powerful.

With zoë it's not just conversations, it's also people, timelines, countries, domains, whatever, and the search is just as powerful. Plus, your email is on your machine. It's one of those things that's very easy to use and very complicated to explain, so the best way to find out is to try it.

It's not GNU, but it's creative commons released and free (as in beer).

Added (II): I have no affiliation whatsoever.

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Edit: Hanu's right (msg below - i always confuse the two names)

[edited by: claus at 11:03 pm (utc) on Nov. 9, 2004]

[bakedjake]

Yeah, M2 absolutely rocks. Use it with IMAP, and you can keep everything on the server, if that's what you're concerned about.

[Hanu]

It's ZOË not ZÖE.

[erikcw]

Not sure that ZOE will do the trick either. Seems a bit resource intensive to use on a live web server. I'd really like a full fledged webmail client (like Horde) which has features similar to gmail - so far it doesn't seem like one exists yet....

[claus]

I don't know how you got the idea that it's ressource intensive, but perhaps you're right, i wouldn't know about that. I've never noticed it but then again, i don't run it on a machine that's just a web server. Still, i used to run it just fine on my laptop with only a few hundred MB of ram and a full load of emails dating several years back.

That's probably not helpful information anyway, but here's some tips for finetuning performance: [sourceforge.net...]

[moltar]

I just checked out Zoe, but you cannot even compose an email there. It is really just a search engine of your emails. It's a pretty cool application, but not exactly an email client.