Download Horde Groupware Webmail 4.0-RC1

Horde Groupware Webmail is, as the name suggests, a package with which groupware and webmail can be offered. The package is written in php and uses the Horde framework . For more information, please refer to this one and this one pages. The developers have released version 4.0-RC1 of Horde Groupware Webmail with the following announcement on the mailing list:

Horde Groupware Webmail Edition 4.0-RC1

The Horde Team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the Horde Groupware Webmail Edition version 4.0.

Horde Groupware Webmail Edition is a free, enterprise ready, browser based communication suite. Users can read, send and organize email messages with four different webmail interfaces and manage and share calendars, contacts, tasks and notes with the standards compliant components from the Horde Project.

The installation method for Horde Groupware Webmail Edition 4 has been changed to use the PEAR installer. Please follow the instructions on to install Horde Groupware Webmail Edition.

The major changes compared to the Horde Groupware Webmail Edition version 1 are:

Global changes:

• Completely refactored for PHP 5.
• New installation process through PEAR installer.
• Simplified configuration process.
• ActiveSync support.
• Frameless layout.
• Grouping into advanced and simple user preferences.
• Improved caching and reduced session sizes.
• Much faster Share library.
• Reduced dependency on external libraries.
• Lots of improvements in all library components.

Email changes:

• New mobile front end.
• Much improved AJAX frontend including a vertical pane layout.
• New IMAP library written from scratch with broad RFC support and huge performance improvements.
• More powerful search and filter functionality.
• Smart reply feature.
• Improved new mail notifications.
• Localized special folders.
• Better display of HTML messages.
• HTML signature.
• Draft auto-saving.
• Support for custom IMAP flags.
• Reduced memory usage.

Address book changes:

• Duplicates searching and merging.

Filter changes:

• Changed default Sieve port to 4190.

Calendar changes:

• New AJAX frontend with integrated tasks support.
• New mobile front end.
• Resource scheduling.
• System calendar.
• Calendar coloring.
• Calendar and event tagging.
• Cross time zone support.
• CalDAV client support.
• Improved recurring event exceptions.
• Improved notification and invitation messages.

Task changes:

• New Ajax front end (in calendar).
• System task list.
• Task list coloring.
• Quick task adder.

The full list of changes can be viewed here:
https://github.com/horde/horde/blob/0fe2605c2989c94d433d01cec3741b3796ba3c24/webmail/docs/CHANGES

Have fun!
The Horde Team.