SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP4. SquirrelMail includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (no JavaScript required) for maximum compatibility across browsers. The program has very few requirements and you can easily install and configure it without any stress. It has all the functionality you would want from an email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation. The publisher has been able to address a lot of issues earlier recorded in previous versions. These problems or issues where basically in the areas of security, harsh and hard to exploit XSS bugs, and general click-jacking vulnerability, and a small problem with message sanitizing.

Users of older version of SquirrelMail should take note of a few things when upgrading to this new version. As a result of a fix made that standardizes the folder list display, administrators who had their configuration file set to work around this issue in the past will need to update their configuration. This will commonly affect those using Courier IMAP, but could affect others as well. So, you have to be sure you take this into consideration when updating.

SquirrelMail is a freeware, and runs on Mac, Unix, and Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP.

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