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

Copyright (c) 2020 - 2022 SnappyMail Copyright (c) 2013 - 2022 RainLoop

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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• boot.js without webpack overhead
• 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
• 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	82.515
app.js	4.207.787	406.190
boot.js	868.735	2.031
libs.js	658.812	192.965
sieve.js	0	86.121
polyfills.js	334.608	0
serviceworker.js	0	285
TOTAL	8.240.095	770.107

js/min/*	RainLoop	Snappy	RL gzip	SM gzip	RL brotli	SM brotli
admin.min.js	256.831	40.856	73.606	13.566	60.877	12.142
app.min.js	515.367	188.137	139.456	62.532	110.485	53.603
boot.min.js	84.659	1.251	26.998	773	23.643	627
libs.min.js	584.772	92.055	180.901	34.113	155.182	30.641
sieve.min.js	0	41.926	0	10.484	0	9.451
polyfills.min.js	32.837	0	11.406	0	10.175	0
TOTAL user	1.217.635	281.443	358.761	97.418	299.485	84.871
TOTAL user+sieve	1.217.635	323.369	358.761	107.902	299.485	94.322
TOTAL admin	959.099	134.162	292.911	48.452	249.877	43.410

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
• 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	83.746	46.946	17.262	14.779
app.min.css	274.947	67.483	39.647	15.311	13.365
boot.css		1.326		664	545
boot.min.css		1.071		590	474
admin.css		30.816		6.939	6.028
admin.min.css		24.969		6.300	5.531

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

OpenPGP	RainLoop	Snappy	RL gzip	SM gzip	RL brotli	SM brotli
openpgp.min.js	330.742	539.257	102.388	166.998	84.241	137.186
openpgp.worker	1.499		824		695

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	122.321	41.906	31.867	14.330
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 install the plugin.