crackerMail v2.0

Created by Craig (Big Cracker) McNaughton
www.bigcracker.ca

Download the .zip file.

Featured on freeware4u.com.

Overview

This is a really basic webmail system, using PHP's IMAP functionality. It was designed for use in a password-protected folder, since POP3/IMAP mailbox usernames and passwords are stored, making mailboxes available to anyone with access to the folder.

Capabilities

  1. Handles any number of POP3 or IMAP mailboxes
  2. Delete messages
  3. Reply to, Reply to All, and Forward messages
  4. Download attachments
  5. Preserves attachments when forwarding and allows attachments on new, Reply and Forward messages
  6. Option to Reply from another mailbox, if multiple mailboxes are created in Manage Mailboxes
  7. Option to view full headers of messages
  8. Option to modify mailbox information
  9. Lists all mailboxes and number of messages in one table
  10. Customizable pagination to speed message display
  11. Sort list of messages by From, Subject or Date in ascending or descending order
  12. Option to view another mailbox without returning to mailbox listing
  13. Obvious links (e.g., http://www.example.com) in plain text messages replaced with actual links
  14. Includes FCKEditor for composing messages in HTML format

There may be other capabilities not specifically listed.

Limitations

  1. no option for customizing reply format
    • if message was received in HTML, reply will be in HTML.
  2. no option for automatically adding signature
  3. server must have PHP compiled with IMAP support and valid sendmail parameters

There may be other limitations that have yet to be identified.

Installation

  1. Unzip the contents of crackerMail_2.zip into a password-protected folder.
    • Or unzip the contents and upload them into a password-protected folder.
  2. Ensure the file permissions on config.php and address.txt are CHMOD xx7; Everyone must have read, write and execute permissions.
    • If you had installed any previous version of crackerMail, unfortunately you cannot copy your existing email_config.php file, since the format has been completely changed.
  3. Open index.php in your favourite browser.
  4. Click Manage Mailboxes.
  5. Add your mailboxes.
  6. Click Preferences.
  7. Edit your e-mail handling preferences.
    • Exit page: path from root to page to load on exit
    • Theme: themes are CSS files located in the themes folder, change or add to them as you wish.
      • Themes are populated automatically in the list from the contents of the /themes/ folder.
    • Menus: menus can display icons with tooltips, plain text or text with icons
    • Mail format: HTML or plain text
    • Message List Sort: sort ascending or descending by Date Received, From or Subject
  8. Click Mailboxes to return to index.php.
  9. Click View to view messages.

 

If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to leave me a message

– Craig