Bitnami Welcomes Our Newest Commercial Partner: WebMail Pro PHP!

Tired of using the same old user interface for your enterprise email system? With the Bitnami WebMail Pro PHP stack, you can quickly launch a modern front-end for your existing email system that is simple yet full-featured and powerful. It is optimized for large numbers of mailboxes and looks great on any desktop or mobile browser. With features like CalDAV/CardDAV mobile sync, mail filtering and threading, message auto-response and auto-forward, PGP encryption, and much more, WebMail Pro PHP will take emailing with your enterprise system from cumbersome to awesome!



Key features include: 

• Modern, responsive user interface 
• Support for IMAP, SMTP, SSL and LDAP 
• Support for IMAP quotas, multiple accounts per user and multiple domains 
• Drag-and-drop support for images and other attachments 
• Thumbnail preview for images and PDF files 
• Support for OpenPGP encryption 
• Import and export of contacts via CSV or VCF files 
• Internationalized and UTF8-compliant; right-to-left support for Hebrew and Arabic 
• Extensive set of HTTP and PHP APIs for developers 
• Integration with external cloud storage providers like Dropbox and Google Drive 
• Compatible with Microsoft Exchange, Exim, Postfix, Dovecot, Sendmail, Qmail and many others Fully customizable via templates and included source code 
• Professional support

Interested in WebMail Pro PHP? Deploy a one-hour free demo of the Bitnami WebMail Pro PHP Stack! We make it easy to run WebMail Pro PHP in the cloud, virtually, or locally in minutes. Try it out now!

Roundcube now available in BitNami

Roundcube was the latest winner of the BitNami bi-weekly packaging contest and we are happy to announce that it is already available as part of the BitNami library.

You can now download free, ready to run native installers for Windows, OS X and Linux, virtual machines and Azure and Amazon EC2 images for Roundcube.

For those of you not familiar with this popular app, Roundcube is a modern webmail solution for managing your emails, similar to GMail, that you can host on your own servers. Some of its features include MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking.

You can also now launch a free cloud demo server with the BitNami Cloud Launchpad by clicking the launch button below. This server was configured with GMail by default. You can log in with a GMail account to start using it.

Thomas Bruederli, the Lead Developer and Project Administrator of Roundcube, was kind enough to answer some questions about his project.


1. What is the goal of the Roundcube application?

Roundcube aims to be a state-of-the-art webmail application that can be put on top of every standard email server and which is free to use and can easily be extended.

2. What are some of the features of Roundcube?

As the name states, the core features are everyday email reading and writing. For the use in corporate or institutional environments, Roundcube also integrates LDAP address books. Thanks to the plugin architecture one can choose from a broad variety of plugins that add further features such as calendar, task management, message filters or synchronization.

3. Which projects or organizations are using Roundcube currently?  What kind of projects do they use it for?

There are several American Universities using Roundcube for their campus or department email service, the largest deployment known is at University of Michigan serving 70K users. But also many internet service providers around the world meanwhile offer Roundcube by default for their paying hosting customers. Finally, Roundcube became the web client of the open source groupware solution Kolab which is a powerful competitor in the groupware market.

4. What do you expect will be the main benefits of having BitNami packages available for Roundcube?

Although the installation of Roundcube is rather simple, having it packaged and pre-configured will hopefully make it even easier for people to give it a try. Since the Roundcube software is still pretty young and under heavy development, we also expect to open a proper update channel with the BitNami packages.


Would you like your favorite app to be part of BitNami? Be sure to suggest and vote for it in our contest!

RoundCube: The Latest BitNami Contest Winner

Congrats to the RoundCube team! The RoudCube application is the new winner of the bi-weekly packaging contest. It has been chosen by our users to be added to the BitNami library.

RoundCube is like having your own private GMail: a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking.

RoundCube Webmail

As with all BitNami apps, we will provide free RoundCube installers, virtual machines and cloud images for the Amazon and Windows Azure clouds. 

Thanks to the community votes, we also recently released Horde Groupware Webmail in BitNami. Horde is a browser-based communication suite, where users can read, send and organize email messages and manage and share calendars, contacts, tasks and notes. If you are interested in a Webmail platform you can try Horde easily downloading the Horde Groupware Webmail installers, virtual machines or you can instantly launch a free cloud demo server.

Would you like to have your favorite app as part of BitNami? Make sure to suggest and vote for it in our contest!

Horde Groupware Webmail now part of BitNami

We are pleased to announce that Horde Groupware Webmail is now available on BitNami! Horde is an open source, enterprise-ready, browser-based communication suite. Users can read, send and organize email messages and manage and share calendars, contacts, tasks and notes with the standards compliant components from the Horde Project.

You can now download free, ready to run native installers for OS X and Linux, an Ubuntu-based virtual machine and Azure and Amazon EC2 cloud images.

You can also now launch a free cloud demo server with the BitNami Cloud Launchpad by clicking the launch button below.

Jan Scheneider, core developer and a founding member of Horde LLC was kind enough to answer some questions for those of you who may not be familiar with the project.

1. What is the goal of the Horde Groupware Webmail application? 

We aim to provide the most flexible web based Groupware available. The strong points and the focus of Horde Groupware are: flexible integration with existing infrastructure, extensive configuration and customization options, strong support for standards.

Horde Groupware Webmail Edition dashboard

2.- What are the main features of Horde Groupware Webmail?


Some of the features of Horde Groupware include:

    Dynamic, basic and mobile interfaces
    Public and shared resources (calendars, address books, tasklists and notepads)
    Translated into 41 languages including right-to-left scripts and full unicode support
    Global tagging sytem
    Customizable portal screen including applets for weather, quotes, etc.
    Import and export of groupware data from other applications
    Synchronization with PDAs, mobile phones, groupware clients
    Strong integration, e.g. address book lookups in meeting planning, task due dates in calendar
    IMAP and POP3 webmail client
    Message filtering
    Message searching
    HTML message composition with WYSIWIG editor
    Quota support
    Keyboard navigation

You can check the main Horde Groupware Webmail features at http://www.horde.org/apps/webmail and http://www.horde.org/apps/groupware

3. Which projects or organizations are using Horde Groupware Webmail currently?

Horde is especially strong in academic and hoster environments. You can find important companies and organizations at the Horde's deployments page like SAPO Mail (Portuguese ISP), Versatel.nl, University of Michigan, Columbia University and more.

4. What are the benefits for Horde Groupware Webmail to be available as BitNami stack installers, virtual machine and Azure & Amazon cloud images?

BitNami stacks make it easier for new users to get started with Horde Groupware Webmail. It also simplifies to test new versions or run the application in the cloud easily.


We are glad Horde Groupware Webmail is now part of BitNami. Would you like your favorite app to be part of BitNami? Make sure to suggest and vote for it in our contest!