Vamp

VAMP is a useful and free web-mail client written entirely in the PHP scripting language which can access POP3 mailboxes. It features an interface not entirely dissimilar to other web-mail clients like Microsoft's Hotmail or IMP. The main goal of this project is to deliver a solid web-based E-Mail reading and composing platform that is fast, simple and easy to set up. VAMP also has some features rarely found in other web-mail packages.

"Virtual users" for example, which basically means that all E-Mails to a certain domain are put together in a single mailbox which is accessible through a POP3 server. VAMP then decodes this E-Mail box and allows several users to access their own E-Mails, and prevents users from viewing another user's mail.

Here are some key features of "Vamp":

￭ Easy to set up and maintain configuration using the Setup Tool ￭ Access to local and remote POP3 E-Mail boxes ￭ Ability to compose messages with attachments, carbon-copy's etc... ￭ Each user has his own contact and signature database ￭ VAMP supports translation-on-the-fly to support different languages ￭ "Virtual users" ￭ Support for both MySQL and PostgreSQL databases ￭ Support for encrypting attachments (under PHP3) ￭ ...much much more...

Requirements:

￭ A webserver which supports parsing PHP files ￭ PHP3 or PHP4 ￭ A POP3 server for receiving mail (either local or remote) ￭ An SMTP server for sending mail (local or remote) ￭ An SQL database supported by PHP (for now just MySQL and PostgreSQL