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About SnappyMail

Simple, modern, lightweight & fast web-based email client. (It is an actively developed fork of RainLoop).

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AGPL-3.0

More about SnappyMail

SnappyMail

Simple, modern, lightweight & fast web-based email client.

The drastically upgraded & secured fork of RainLoop Webmail Community edition.

We thank the RainLoop Team for making a great PHP 5 product that was good in the past.

Up to date system requirements, snappy performance, simple installation and upgrade, no database required - all these make SnappyMail a good choice.

For more information about the product, check snappymail.eu.

Information about installing the product, check the wiki page.

And don't forget to read the RainLoop documentation.

License

SnappyMail is released under GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3 (AGPL). http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html

Modifications

This fork of RainLoop has the following changes:

Privacy/GDPR friendly (no: Social, Gravatar, Facebook, Google, Twitter, DropBox, X-Mailer)
Admin uses password_hash/password_verify
Auth failed attempts written to syslog
Added Fail2ban instructions
ES2018
PHP 7.4+ required
PHP mbstring extension required
PHP replaced pclZip with PharData and ZipArchive
Dark mode
Added option to remove background/font colors from messages for real "dark mode"
Removed BackwardCapability (class \RainLoop\Account)
Removed ChangePassword (re-implemented as plugin)
Removed POP3 support
Removed background video support
Removed Sentry (Application Monitoring and Error Tracking Software)
Removed Spyc yaml
Removed OwnCloud
Replaced gulp-uglify with gulp-terser
CRLF => LF line endings
Embed boot.js and boot.css into index.html
Removal of old JavaScript code (things are native these days)
Added modified Squire HTML editor as replacement for CKEditor
Updated Sabre/VObject
Split Admin specific JavaScript code from User code
Split Sieve specific JavaScript code from User code
JSON reviver
Better memory garbage collection management
Added serviceworker for Notifications
Added advanced Sieve scripts editor
Slimmed down language files
Replaced webpack with rollup
No user-agent detection (use device width)
Added support to load plugins as .phar
Replaced old Sabre library
AddressBook Contacts support MySQL/MariaDB utf8mb4
Added Fetch Metadata Request Headers checks
Reduced excessive DOM size
Support Kolab groupware
Support IMAP RFC 2971 ID extension
Support IMAP RFC 5258 LIST-EXTENDED
Support IMAP RFC 5464 METADATA
Support IMAP RFC 5819 LIST-STATUS
Support IMAP RFC 7628 SASL OAUTHBEARER aka XOAUTH2
Support IMAP4rev2 RFC 9051
Support Sodium and OpenSSL for encryption
Much better PGP support

Supported browsers

This fork uses downsized/simplified versions of scripts and has no support for Internet Explorer nor Edge Legacy. Supported are:

Chrome 80+
Edge 80+
Firefox 78+
Opera 67+
Safari 13.1+

Removal of old JavaScript

The result is faster and smaller download code (good for mobile networks).

Added dev/prototype.js for some additional features
Modified Jua.js to be without jQuery
Replaced Autolinker with simple https/email detection
Replaced momentToNode with proper HTML5 <time>
Replaced resize listeners with ResizeObserver
Replaced bootstrap.js with native drop-in replacement
Replaced dev/Common/ClientStorageDriver/* with Web Storage Objects polyfill
Replaced Ajax with Fetch classes because we use the Fetch API, not jQuery.ajax
Replaced knockoutjs 3.4 with a modified 3.5.1
Replaced knockout-sortable with native HTML5 drag&drop
Replaced simplestatemanager with CSS @media
Replaced inputosaurus with own code
Replaced keymaster with own shortcuts handler
Replaced OpenPGP.js v2 with OpenPGP.js v5
Removed ifvisible.js
Removed pikaday
Removed underscore
Removed polyfills
Removed Modernizr
Removed nanoscroll
Removed lightgallery
Removed jQuery
Removed jquery-ui
Removed jquery-scrollstop
Removed jquery-mousewheel
Removed matchmedia-polyfill
Removed momentjs (use Intl)
Removed opentip (use CSS)
Removed non-community (aka Prem/Premium/License) code
Removed ProgressJS

RainLoop 1.17 vs SnappyMail

js/*	RainLoop	Snappy
admin.js	2.170.153	81.589
app.js	4.207.787	416.123
boot.js	868.735	2.711
libs.js	658.812	192.392
sieve.js	0	85.597
polyfills.js	334.608	0
serviceworker.js	0	285
TOTAL	8.240.095	778.697

js/min/*	RainLoop	Snappy	RL gzip	SM gzip	RL brotli	SM brotli
admin.min.js	256.831	40.319	73.606	13.343	60.877	11.970
app.min.js	515.367	191.764	139.456	64.128	110.485	54.852
boot.min.js	84.659	1.600	26.998	940	23.643	767
libs.min.js	584.772	91.434	180.901	33.893	155.182	30.383
sieve.min.js	0	41.566	0	10.427	0	9.413
polyfills.min.js	32.837	0	11.406	0	10.175	0
TOTAL user	1.217.635	284.798	358.761	98.961	299.485	86.002
TOTAL user+sieve	1.217.635	326.364	358.761	109.388	299.485	95.415
TOTAL admin	959.099	133.353	292.911	48.176	249.877	43.120

For a user its around 70% smaller and faster than traditional RainLoop.

CSS changes

Solve jQuery removed "features" with native css code
Themes work in mobile mode
Bugfix invalid/conflicting css rules
Use flexbox
Use border-box
Split app.css to have separate admin.css
Remove oldschool 'float'
Remove unused css
Removed html.no-css
Removed dev/Styles/Cmd.less
Removed dev/Styles/Scroll.less
Removed Internet Explorer from normalize.css
Removed node_modules/opentip/css/opentip.css
Removed node_modules/pikaday/css/pikaday.css
Removed unused vendors/bootstrap/less/*
Removed vendors/jquery-nanoscroller/nanoscroller.css
Removed vendors/jquery-letterfx/jquery-letterfx.min.css
Removed vendors/Progress.js/minified/progressjs.min.css
Removed gulp-autoprefixer

css/*	RainLoop	Snappy	RL gzip	SM gzip	SM brotli
app.css	340.331	81.923	46.946	17.033	14.647
app.min.css	274.947	66.171	39.647	15.062	13.240
boot.css		1.326		664	545
boot.min.css		1.071		590	474
admin.css		30.540		6.984	6.093
admin.min.css		24.738		6.340	5.589

PGP

RainLoop uses the old OpenPGP.js v2 SnappyMail v2.12 uses OpenPGP.js v5, GnuPG and Mailvelope. SnappyMail is able to use and generate ECDSA and EDDSA keys, where RainLoop does not.

Since SnappyMail tries to achieve the best mobile experience, it forked OpenPGP.js to strip it down. * remove all unused Node.js * remove all old browsers support See https://github.com/the-djmaze/openpgpjs for development