Email has become an essential part of our life and it is hard to imagine a business world without such useful tool. Considering the widespread usage of various email clients, it’s important to use software that has appropriate options that will enhance your user experience and simplify most of your operations connected with emails. Of course there are many free email services though today we are talking about webmail clients using POP3 and SMTP protocols for both local and remote mail servers. Mostly these mail clients are powered by PHP or Java scripts. Even though most of these clients are not that new, we believe that their popularity and great set of extremely useful and well-thought options will be the key arguments for you to try them out. As usual we are glad to hear a word from you about software that we have missed to include to our list.

1. Roundcube

Roundcube offers a wide range of various functions including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking. This browser-based client has conquered thousands of users’ hearts due to its excellent interface and superb functionality.

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2. AtMail

AtMail has great Ajax-powered interface with a bunch of awesome options. Among other useful features we can mark out video mail, PHP source code, IMAP support, live spell check, HTML email composing etc.

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3. Afterlogic

This browser-based webmail client has clean and simple Ajax-powered interface which makes it fast and powerful – just as any desktop mail client is. It supports all major browsers, can be easily integrated into the cPanel. Also Aftelogic software has such usable features as message preview pane, auto-complete for e-mail addresses, keyboard shortcuts, spell-check and many others.

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4. SquirrelMail

I’ve included Squirrel mail into this list due its reliability and smooth interface. It is a simple, powerful and plain software which will work almost anywhere you want. It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols. All pages are rendered in HTML 4.0 (with no JavaScript required) which increases its compatibility across major web browsers.

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5. Zimbra

Zimbra has Ajax-powered interface which helps users to enrich their user experience. The great thing about this software is that you can integrate 3-rd party applications into your webmail like maps, CRM data etc.

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6. Mailr

Mailr is an open source webmail application written in Ruby which uses Ruby On Rails web application framework. It has a bunch of great options such as slick address book, HTML and plaintext message composition and mail filters based on Maildrop.

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7. Hastymail

The great thing about Hastymail is their plugins system. Besides default functions you can you can add pages within the Hastymail application, modify internal data structures, make AJAX callbacks using their AJAX system and do many other useful things.

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8. Postaci

Postaci is a database independent (supports MySQL, mSQL, Microsoft SQL, Sybase, PostgreSQL), multilingual POP3/IMAP e-mail client. It has very clean and simple interface which can be used at any platofrm which supports PHP.

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9. Claros in touch

Claros inTouch is an Ajax communication suite which includes webmail, post-it notes, calendar, address book, built-in instant messenger and rss reader. It has pretty neat security system including powerful anti-spam protection.

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10. Emexis

Being a new kid on the block Emexis can conquer with the leading clients. It was build on SquirrelMail although it has improved user’s interface, calendar, disk quote etc.

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Written by Edward Korcheg

Edward has been with TemplateMonster blog since 2009 and is a great fan of social media and web development trends (especially jQuery and HTML5). In fact, HTML5 along with retro trucks are his two biggest hobbies. He dreams of one day coding himself a retro truck using nothing but HTML5 Canvas tag.

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