42 of the Best Free Linux Email Software
Email is arguably one of the most popular and useful functions
of a Linux system. Fortunately, there is a wide selection of free email
software available on the Linux platform which is stable, feature
laden, and ideal for personal
and business environments. Send and receive emails, run a
mail server, filter spam, administer a mailing list are just some of
the
options explored in this article.
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is
available,
we have compiled a list of 42 high quality Linux email applications,
covering a broad spectrum of uses. There's a mix of desktop and server
based
applications included. Hopefully, there will be something of
interest for all types of users.
Now, let's explore the 42 email applications at hand. For each
title we have compiled its own portal page, providing a screenshot of
the software in action (where appropriate), a full description with an
in-depth analysis of
its features, together with links to relevant resources and reviews.
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Clients - Graphical |
| Claws
Mail |
Lightweight yet powerful and full-featured client |
| Thunderbird |
Popular
free, cross-platform e-mail, RSS and newsgroup client |
| KMail |
Email
component of Kontact,
a integrated personal information manager |
| Balsa |
Email
client for GNOME |
| Sylpheed |
Simple,
lightweight client |
| Clients - Console |
| Alpine |
Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and
Email |
| Cone |
console
newsreader
and emailer |
| Pine |
Tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic
messages |
| mutt |
Small
but very powerful text based client |
| Clients - Web Based |
| SquirrelMail |
Webmail package written in PHP
|
RoundCube
|
Browser-based
multilingual IMAP client |
| Groupware |
| Scalix |
E-mail and groupware server |
| Evolution |
Provides
integrated mail, addressbook and calendaring functionality |
| OpenGroupware.org |
Collaborative software server for multiple
clients |
| Zimbra |
Zimbra
Collaboration
Suite |
| Email Server |
| Courier |
Integrated
mail/groupware server |
| DBMail |
Enables
storing and retrieving mail messages from a database |
| Dovecot |
Secure POP3 server that supports mbox and maildir
mailboxes |
| Exim |
Highly
configurable mail transfer agent |
| Postfix |
Popular mail transfer agent
|
| qmail |
Written
as a more
secure replacement for the Sendmail program |
| Sendmail |
Mail transfer agent for sophisticated mail
configurations |
| Utilities |
| fetchmail |
SSL enabled POP3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder |
| getmail |
Flexible,
extensible mail retrieval system |
| Postfix
Admin |
Manage mailboxes,
virtual domains and aliases |
| MailWatch |
Web-based
front-end to MailScanner written in PHP,
MySQL and JpGraph |
| Security |
| Enigmail |
OpenPGP Email Security for Mozilla Applications |
| GnuPG |
Encrypt
and sign data and communication |
| Mailcrypt |
Simple
interface to public key cryptography with PGP |
| Mail filtering |
| maildrop |
mail delivery agent with a mail filtering language |
| MailScanner |
Virus
scanner and
spam detector |
| Postgrey |
Postfix policy server implementing greylisting |
| procmail |
Mail
delivery agent |
SpamAssassin
|
Perl-based spam filter using text analysis
|
| SpamBayes |
Bayesian
anti-spam classifier written in Python |
| Vipul's
Razor |
Spam-catcher using a collaborative filtering network |
| Notification |
CheckGmail
|
Gmail Notifier
|
| GMail
Notifier |
An
alternative to CheckGmail |
| Mail
Notification |
Monitors multiple mailboxes for new mail |
| Mailing List Manager |
| ezmlm-idx |
Highly automated mailing list manager |
| Mailman |
Manage
electronic mail
discussion and
e-newsletter lists |
| Majordomo |
Perl based mailing list manager |
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