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, OwnCloud, X-Mailer)
Admin uses password_hash/password_verify
Auth failed attempts written to syslog
Added Fail2ban instructions
ES2015
PHP 7.3+ required
PHP mbstring extension required
PHP replaced pclZip with PharData and ZipArchive
PHP yaml extension else use the old Spyc
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 OAuth support
Removed POP3 support
Removed background video support
Removed Sentry (Application Monitoring and Error Tracking Software)
Replaced gulp-uglify with gulp-terser
CRLF => LF line endings
Embed boot.js and boot.css into index.html
Ongoing removal of old JavaScript code (things are native these days)
Added modified Squire HTML editor as replacement for CKEditor
Split Admin 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

Removal of old JavaScript

This fork uses downsized/simplified versions of scripts and has no support for Internet Explorer.

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

Things might work in Edge 18, Firefox 50-62 and Chrome 54-68 due to one polyfill for array.flat().

Added dev/prototype.js for some additional features
boot.js without webpack overhead
Modified Jua.js to be without jQuery
Replaced ProgressJS with simple native dropin
Replaced Autolinker with simple https/email detection
Replaced ifvisible.js with simple drop-in replacement
Replaced momentToNode with proper HTML5
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
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

RainLoop 1.15 vs SnappyMail

js/*	RainLoop	Snappy
admin.js	2.158.025	101.796
app.js	4.215.733	501.679
boot.js	672.433	4.726
libs.js	647.679	227.974
polyfills.js	325.908	0
serviceworker.js	0	285
TOTAL	8.019.778	836.460

js/min/*	RainLoop	Snappy	RL gzip	SM gzip	RL brotli	SM brotli
admin.min.js	255.514	51.172	73.899	15.082	60.674	13.491
app.min.js	516.000	243.404	140.430	71.302	110.657	60.167
boot.min.js	66.456	2.525	22.553	1.391	20.043	1.201
libs.min.js	574.626	115.877	177.280	42.809	151.855	38.099
polyfills.min.js	32.608	0	11.315	0	10.072	0
TOTAL	1.445.204	412.978	425.477	130.584	353.301	112.958
TOTAL (no admin)	1.189.690	361.806	351.061	115.502	292.627	99.467

For a user its around 66% 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
Split app.css to have seperate 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 vendors/bootstrap/less/breadcrumbs.less
Removed vendors/bootstrap/less/navbar.less
Removed vendors/bootstrap/less/popovers.less
Removed vendors/bootstrap/less/progress-bars.less
Removed vendors/bootstrap/less/scaffolding.less
Removed vendors/bootstrap/less/sprites.less
Removed vendors/bootstrap/less/tooltip.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	340.334	107.316	46,959	18.818	16.150
app.min.css	274.791	88.449	39.618	16.838	14.830
boot.css		2.066		913	742
boot.min.css		1.696		818	664
admin.css		48.053		9.494	8.310
admin.min.css		38.740		8.441	7.501

Squire vs CKEditor

The Squire implementation is not 100% compatible yet, but it shows the massive overhead of CKEditor.

Still TODO:

support for tables (really needed?!?)
support BIDI (really needed?!?)

	normal	min	gzip	min gzip
squire	128.826	47.074	33.671	15.596
ckeditor	?	520.035	?	155.916

CKEditor including the 7 asset requests (css,language,plugins,icons) is 633.46 KB / 180.47 KB (gzip).

To use the old CKEditor, you must enable it in /data/_data_/_default_/configs/application.ini in the [labs] section add/edit: use_ck_html_editor = On

PHP73 branch

There's a RainLoop 1.14.0 branch with only the PHP 7.3 changes at https://github.com/the-djmaze/snappymail/tree/php73

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