Free mailboxes etc software for linux

Mailbox Strainer is a Superkaramba widget that examines an arbitrary number of IMAP mailboxes, POP3 mailboxes and local mail folders for new messages. For the latest new messages, the content of a specified header is displayed on the screen. When new messages arrive, Mailbox Strainer emits a notification via KNotify.

You may have serveral instances running such that each one checks its own collection of mailboxes. SpamAssassin may be invoked to detect spam, or message headers modified by external spam checkers can be evaluated. It is also possible to make SpamAssassin learn from specified IMAP or local folders.
Configuration can be done through a graphical interface or manually via a configuration file (an annotated configuration file is supplied).

Mailbox Strainer is written in Perl. Depending on the features you want to use, a number of Perl modules must be installed. In particular, PerlQt will be needed for the configuration dialog. All modules can be found at http://www.cpan.org , consider using the CPAN shell (perl -MCPAN -e shell) for this will automatically resolve dependencies. To find out which modules are missing on your system, invoke module-test.pl . (Hopefully I didnt forget any of them, it has become quite a number.)

The local mail capabilities are those of the Email::Folder::* modules, so they should be able to handle mbox and maildir. Currently, using the spam detection with local mbox folders is _strongly_ discouraged! It is likely to destroy your Emails, see http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.pep/68 for the reason. (A possible workaround is presented in http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.pep/72.) So spam checking is currently disabled for local mailboxes. You can enable it by changing lines 975, 998 and 1081 of perl/mailbox-strainer.pl. Remove "0 &&" from each of those lines.

A few words about password storage: The configuration dialog stores encrypted passwords (of length at least 8) in the configuration file. This is meant as a protection against accidentally displaying the configuration file, but nothing else. Consider this as a parody on proper encryption, even the secret key can be found in the perl scripts.

Asmail is a "mail-checker" like xbiff, but with the Afterstep look & feel. It indicates the status of your mailbox. It can be put in the Wharf, execute program on incoming mail, execute program on mouseclick, show animations and more...
The application is has an AfterStep look & feel, multiple e-mail mailboxes monitor for computers running X Windows.
This application reads the configuration file and launches as many threads as there are mailboxes defined. There is no limit on the number of mailboxes to watch. Each mailbox
is verified according to the timeout specified in the configuration file. The progress and the status of mailboxes are presented on the screen.
The application may present a summary of all mailboxes or each mailbox separately (as many as will fit into the picture). You can specify the XPM picture to use as the backdrop
animation for the status update.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes a problem where error printing output causes errno to be set to a different value.

PowerMail provides a redundant and distributed system for receiving and storing mail.
PowerMail is a redundant and distributed system for receiving mail via SMTP and storing it for users to access with POP. The way PowerMail works is quite unorthodox, and its design emphasizes speed and efficiency.
Modified Maildir mailboxes allow PowerMail to employ hardlinks to save diskspace and deliver messages with thousands of recipients instantly.
PowerMail can operate self-sufficiently or cooperate with a regular MTA to support mail forwarding.
Enhancements:
- fixes for older gcc compilers (Ruben dArco)
- pptool ignored SYSCONFDIR and only did /etc/powermail (Ruben dArco)
- added ldap-forwarding-attribute
- --help display was somewhat screwed (Ruben dArco)
- run-as-uid/run-as-gid broken (Ruben dArco)
- TOP cleaned up (Ruben dArco)

getmail is a mail retriever designed to allow you to get your mail from one or more mail accounts on various mail servers to your local machine for reading with a minimum of fuss.
getmail it is secure, flexible, reliable, and easy-to-use. getmail is designed to replace other mail retrievers such as fetchmail.
Main features:
- simple to install, configure, and use
- retrieve virtually any mail
- support for accessing mailboxes with the following protocols:
- POP3
- POP3-over-SSL
- IMAP4
- IMAP4-over-SSL
- SDPS (Demon UKs extensions to POP3)
- support for single-user and domain mailboxes
- retrieve mail from an unlimited number of mailboxes and servers
- can remember which mail it has already retrieved, and can be set to only download new messages
- support for message filtering, classification, and annotation by external programs like spam filters and anti-virus programs
- support for delivering messages to different destinations based on the message recipient
- reliability
- native safe and reliable delivery support for maildirs and mboxrd files, in addition to delivery through arbitrary external message delivery agents (MDAs)
- does not destroy information by rewriting mail headers
- does not cause mail loops by doing SMTP injection, and therefore does not require that you run an MTA (like qmail or sendmail) on your host
- written in Python, and therefore easy to extend or customize
- a flexible, extensible architecture so that support for new mail access protocols, message filtering operations, or destination types can be easily added
- cross-platform operation; getmail 4 should work on Unix/Linux, Macintosh, and other platforms. Windows support available under the free Cygwin package.
- winner of various software awards, including DaveCentrals "Best of Linux.
Enhancements:
- A fix for an exception when getmail is trying to report a POP3 server that completely missed generating a UIDL token for a message. .

WebMail is a www-frontend to IMAP/POP3 mailboxes. You can compare it to the systems Hotmail, YahooMail etc use.
Main features:
- gives a user complete access to his POP3 or IMAP mailboxes via an easy-to-use web interface
- neither Java nor Javascript on the Clientside
- runs as Java Servlet (and Servlet 2.2 WebApp)
- pluggable services (IMAP, POP3, ...) through the Java Mail API
- configurable looknfeel through templates
- user configurable mailboxes: each folder may be on a different IMAP host
- sophisticated folder support
- support for multiple languages
- MIME support: images, html- and textfiles are shown via the webbrowser (configurable), all other files may be downloaded with a click
- fancy mail formatting: link highlighting, umlaut conversion, "smiley-substitution"
- Very fast compared to CGI scripts
- Modular concept with plugin support
- Easy administration (webinterface) and installation

Archmbox is a simple email archiver written in perl; it parses one or more mailboxes, selects some or all messages and then performs specific actions on the selected messages.
At this time archmbox supports mbox and mbx mailbox formats.
Four different modes are available:
- list mode, which is useful to list all selected messages before archmbox performs the real operations (archiving or deleting)
- kill mode, if messages should be deleted from the mailbox(es) rather than archived
- archive mode, to archive the selected messages in a different mailbox
- copy mode, to copy the selected messages from the source mailbox
Messages selection is based upon a date criteria; an absolute date or a days offset can be specified. It is also possible to refine the selection using regular expressions on the header fields of the message.
All archived messages are stored in a new mailbox with the same name of the original one plus .archived as extension (this is the default, but can be changed); the archive mailbox can be saved in gz or bz2 compressed format as well.
Archmbox was successfully tested on the following platforms:
- Linux
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD
- MacOS X
- OpenDarwin
- Sun Solaris
A little hack is needed for Sun Solaris; please read here or the INSTALL file included with the distribution for further details.

Sendmail Analyzer is a perl script reporting full HTML and graph sendmail usage reports. The project reports statistics on inbound, outbound and largest messages, senders and recipients, relays, domains, and complete mailboxes usage if your country law allow it.

Statistics are generated per hour, day, month and year. Graphs are in PNG format.

Postilion is a mail user agent based upon the popular TkRat program. The main changes to TkRat are in the user interface portion, so all of the underlying functionality of TkRat remains. This includes MIME support, Virtual folders, PGP support, support for unix mail files, MH folders, POP and IMAP.

Many other features and enhancements have been added to Postilion, ranging from robust support for IMAP in a shared folder environment, to subtle touches which make mail browsing just a bit more pleasant of an experience. This program was made by the users requests.

Great effort has been made to support multiuser environments with support for system wide configurations, mailboxes and address books; shared folders, etc. Many of these features require the use of IMAP mailboxes. When you build Postilion, you will also build an IMAP4rev1 server which you can experiment with. See the "imap" directory for details.

One of the main features of TkRat which has not survived the transition well at all is multi-language interface support (TkRat had built-in support for English, Swedish and Italian). The reason for this is that I have changed much of the text, yet I do not know these languages for translation. Instructions are included for how to do translations, and I solicit any interested party to contribute their translations (please contact me before starting, just so I can coordinate efforts). Postilion currently has support for English, French, German, Italian Dutch and Swedish.