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What Is Uebimiau?

Uebimiau is a lightweight email application written in PHP. It has not seen active development since 2006 and stopped working with PHP as of PHP 5.3. Although you can still download Uebimiau, we strongly discourage you from using it and recommend you replace it with one of these newer and actively developed alternatives.

Uebimiau Webmail Alternatives

Telaen

Originally based on Uebimiau, Telaen is a webmail application written in PHP. It is compatible with POP3 and IMAP, so it runs on any server that supports PHP with Sendmail or QMAIL. Telaen is fast, lean, and simple, but also extremely powerful. It requires only a standard installation of PHP and does not need an external database.

As of April 2015, the stable version of Telaen was 1.3.2 and version 2.0 was in development. Telaen 1.3.x is compatible with PHP4 and PHP5. Starting with version 2.x, Telaen is dropping support for PHP4. Telaen is free open source software distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2). You can use and redistribute the software but must preserve the author credits.

The benefit of using Telaen over other webmail applications is that it does not require an external database nor does it need any PHP libs or extensions. This makes Telaen simple and fast.

Although Telaen is designed to run on a bare-bones installation of PHP, it can be enhanced with the following libraries: Smarty, TinyMCE, PHPMailer, and iCalCreator. These are bundled with the release for convenience, but Telaen works equally well with the system-provided ones.

Features of Telaen

• Compatible with SMTP, POP3, IMAP, and MIME
• Supports multiple folders
• Send/Receive attachments
• Address book
• Multi-language support
• Themes or skins
• HTML email
• User preferences
• Search
• Quotas
• Spam-aware; auto-populates Spam folders

How do I install Telaen?

Most hosting providers offer webmail login to email accounts directly from a control panel. If your provider supports more than one webmail application, you can choose which one to use when you log into your account. When you select Telaen, you can set it to load automatically the next time you log in.

If your provider does not support Telaen, you can download it as a ZIP or TAR file from the author’s website (jimjag.github.io) and install it on your server manually using FTP. The download includes detailed installation instructions. You can also download the source code from GitHub. Before installing, talk to your provider to find out about any special requirements or compatibility issues.

Telaen Server Requirements

Telaen does not require an external database and runs on any web server that supports Sendmail or QMAIL.

The performance of Telaen depends on the speed of your web and POP3/IMAP servers and PHP, but you can get better performance by following these recommendations:

• Use Apache 2.4
• Configure PHP for Telaen with a large memory allocation and a long (or non-existent) time-limit
• Use a good PHP cache like XCache or APC
• If possible, host your Email server on your web server so you can connect to the loopback address
• IMAP has a faster interface, so use it instead of POP3 if you can
• Think twice before enabling quotas since they add to the overhead

Roundcube

Roundcube webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides all the functionality you expect from an email client, including MIME support, an address book, folder management, message searching, and spellcheck.

Roundcube is easy to install and configure and runs on a standard LAMPP stack (Linux OS, Apache web server, MySQL database, and PHP programming language). It provides skins that use the latest web standards to provide a usable and customizable UI. It also supports a WYSIWYG editor, spell check, and HTML cleanup. The benefits of using Roundcube over other webmail applications are its attractive UI and impressive set of features.

As of April 2015, the last stable release of Roundcube was version 1.1.0 on February 8, 2015, with an update (1.1.1) on March 18, 2015. Roundcube webmail is free open source software distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPLv3 or later) with the exception of skins and plugins.

Features of Roundcube

• Multilingual capabilities
• Full-featured address book
• HTML emails
• Message and contact search
• Canned response templates
• Extensibility using the plugin API

How do I install Roundcube?

Most hosting providers offer webmail login to email accounts directly from a control panel. If your provider supports more than one webmail application, you can choose which one to use when you log into your account. When you select Roundcube, you can set it to load automatically the next time you log in.

If your provider does not support Roundcube, you can download it from roundcube.net and install it on your web server manually using FTP. Several versions of Roundcube, as well as packages and plugins, are available for download, so you should look for the latest stable version. Before installing, talk to your provider to find out about any special requirements or compatibility issues.

Roundcube Server Requirements

• Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, Cherokee or Hiawatha web server
• PHP Version 5.3.7 or higher
• MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MSSQL or Oracle database
• An IMAP server that supports IMAP4 rev1
• An SMTP server (recommended) or PHP configured for mail delivery

SquirrelMail

SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail application written in PHP. For maximum compatibility across browsers, SquirrelMail includes built-in pure PHP support for IMAP and SMTP, as well as support for pure HTML 4.0 with no JavaScript required.

Features of SquirrelMail

• Support for IMAP and SMTP
• Support for HTML 4.0 (no JavaScript required)
• Support for MIME
• Address book
• Folder management

How do I install SquirrelMail?

Most hosting providers offer webmail login to email accounts directly from a control panel. If your provider supports more than one webmail application, you can choose which one to use when you log into your account. When you select Squirrelmail, you can set it to load automatically the next time you log in.

If your provider does not support SquirrelMail, you can download it from squirrelmail.org and install it on your web server manually using FTP. Several versions of SquirrelMail, as well as packages, are available for download, so look for the latest stable version. Before installing, talk to your provider to find out about any special requirements or compatibility issues.

SquirrelMail Server Requirements

There are only two requirements for SquirrelMail:

• A web server with PHP 4.1.0 or higher installed; PHP 4, PHP 5 and PHP 6 are all supported
• Access to an IMAP server that supports IMAP 4 rev 1.

Conclusion

Uebimiau is written in PHP, but it does not work with the latest versions. There have also been reports of security vulnerabilities. For these reasons, we strongly discourage you from using Uebimiau and recommend that you switch to one of the alternatives described here.