| Developer(s) | Atmail |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 6.20.12 / 1 Sep 2011 |
| Operating system | Linux, Mac OS X |
| Type | Webmail Mail server ActiveSync |
| License | Commercial with source |
| Website | http://www.atmail.com/ |
Atmail is a commercial Linux messaging platform provider. The company was founded in 2001 and has its company headquarters located in Peregian Beach, Australia. The company develops webmail, mail-server and groupware solutions built for Linux and other Unix operating systems, and includes the source code under a commercial license.
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The software serves three main functions:
Atmail Server - Leverages open source projects such as Dovecot, Exim and MySQL on the backend to provide a comprehensive mailserver solution with management via an easy to use 'Webadmin' control panel. Support for IMAP/POP3/SSL/SMTP/TLS
Atmail WebMail - Built using PHP Zend, Atmail provides a complete Web-based mail platform, intended to rival desktop clients. The user-interface is built with the jQuery toolkit.
Atmail Groupware - Provides a complete CalDAV web-based client, and CalDAV server based on the Apple Calendar server project. Support for shared calendars, delegation, Outlook sync, and all the features available in CalDAV 3.x
Originally developed in 1998, @Mail was one of the first commercial WebMail products available. The software is now more commonly referred to as Atmail instead of the original name '@Mail'. Initially developed in Perl, Atmail is now offered in PHP using the Zend Framework for ease-of-customization by a larger number of developers.
As of 19 May 2008 a free version of the Atmail webmail client was made available. Named AtMail Open, it is a lightweight, webmail-only version of the commercial application and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license.[1]
As of July 17, 2009 Atmail released the new 6.X version which is a complete rewrite of the software based on the Zend and jQuery platform.
As of Sept 8, 2010 The flagship Atmail 6.20 version was released with support for Exchange ActiveSync [2]
Atmail utilizes the following technology