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 whole Wiki.

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 - 2024 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, 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 many more IMAP RFC's
• 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	81.613
app.js	4.207.787	421.481
boot.js	868.735	4.142
libs.js	658.812	192.625
sieve.js	0	84.707
polyfills.js	334.608	0
serviceworker.js	0	285
TOTAL	8.240.095	784.853

js/min/*	RainLoop	Snappy	RL gzip	SM gzip	RL brotli	SM brotli
admin.min.js	256.831	40.119	73.606	13.425	60.877	12.028
app.min.js	515.367	190.884	139.456	64.643	110.485	55.533
boot.min.js	84.659	2.084	26.998	1.202	23.643	1.003
libs.min.js	584.772	92.664	180.901	34.414	155.182	30.850
sieve.min.js	0	41.164	0	10.365	0	9.359
polyfills.min.js	32.837	0	11.406	0	10.175	0
TOTAL user	1.217.635	285.632	358.761	100.259	299.485	87.386
TOTAL user+sieve	1.217.635	326.796	358.761	110.624	299.485	96.745
TOTAL admin	959.099	134.867	292.911	49.041	249.877	43.881

For a user it is around 69% 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	84.444	46.946	17.613	15.077
app.min.css	274.947	67.834	39.647	15.528	13.542
boot.css		1.326		664	545
boot.min.css		1.071		590	474
admin.css		30.576		7.013	6.096
admin.min.css		24.692		6.336	5.579

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	540.792	102.388	167.971	84.241	138.010
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?!?)

	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).