Atmail 6 Beta Program open

May 6, 2009

After over 9 months in development, the new Atmail 6 platform is now available for BETA. We are opening a beta for selected customers and interested users to test-drive the new version, send us feedback, and help to improve the product for release.

Atmail 6 Moto

More than just an Exchange Replacement for Linux - Built using open standards, Web 2.0 enhanced, design for usability, speed and performance. Providing users an enhanced messaging experience. Our aim is to arm ISPs and business users the tools to do messaging better.

What will Atmail 6 deliver?

  • Unified Webmail interface - An advanced Webmail platform built for usability
  • Built using the best Zend and jQuery have to offer
  • Open standards for Calendaring - Atmail provides a CalDAV client/server, open standards, open calendaring
  • Push support - Mail, Address-book and Calendar data
  • Browser friendly - IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome
  • Groupware made easy
  • Mail threads, conversations, improved address-book integration
  • Faster backend with Exim and Dovecot for the server edition

Register your interest for the beta program, we are hand selecting users on a daily basis and want to work closely with our beta users.

Screenshots for the new Mail interface ( 3pane and 2pane options available )

Atmail6 - Beta Mail Screen

New Webmail - 2 or 3 pane available, mail threading & conversations included

Atmail6 - Beta Abook Screen

Improved Address-book - DnD support, vCard import/export, Push support to iPhone

A production Atmail 6.0 version is due to be released on 15th June 2009 for download and upgrading existing versions. Stay tuned for more updates on the Beta program.


Filed under: Frontpage, Open Source, Atmail 6 — Ben Duncan @ 9:06 am

14 Comments »

  1. My biggest hope for this version is the option to view other peoples calendar (Outlook) and to be able to plan meeting through Planning Assistant (Also in Outlook). Then Exchange2007 can go home and I can offer this instead ;) Very few business users/customers of my uses webmail.

    Comment by Are — May 6, 2009 @ 12:03 pm

  2. I’m increasingly banning whole IP subnets from which spam has been received.

    Currently I have to manually find out the subnet by doing a WHOIS on the received headers then edit Exim’s configure file to do this.

    It would be very useful to have this facility in the admin interface and even better if it could be done automatically to mails that users mark as spam or move to the spam folder.

    Comment by Matthew Ralston — May 7, 2009 @ 8:53 am

  3. I 2nd what Are said above, and add that I hope mail sorting works as expected by sorting an entire mailbox by date rather than just the current view. =) We have high expectations out here.

    Comment by Nathan — May 7, 2009 @ 11:38 am

  4. Hi!
    In Atmail V6 we have integrated various open standards as the back end of our calendaring system. We implement RFC 2445 / RFC 2518 / RFC 4791 / RFC 3283 via the calendar server, which allows common iCalender/CalDav/WebDav applications such as Apple iCal and Mozilla Sunbird to use our webmail application. Using a caldav connector in Outlook will provide you with the complete exchange alternative and provides for people who do not wish to use the webmail interface to use something they are already familiar with. The caldav standard allows for fine grain access control to yours and others calendars allowing ’shared’ events.

    Comment by Atmail_Developer — May 8, 2009 @ 12:00 am

  5. We have implemented sorting at the IMAP level , this is working great. However, for a large mailbox, the speed is dependent on the remote IMAP server!

    Comment by Ben Duncan — May 8, 2009 @ 12:34 am

  6. For spam and banning IP subnets, check our KB article on using fail2ban: http://atmail.com/kb/2009/fail2ban-for-courier-imap-lockout-times/ - Tweak the config file for grepping the maillog for Spamassassin or Exim RBL logs, you could implement an automated firewalling based on IP’s to the SMTP server.

    Comment by Ben Duncan — May 8, 2009 @ 12:44 am

  7. For my part, I would love it if the IMAP capability wouldn’t mess with my mailbox structure on the server. Previous versions kept wanting to create folders with it’s own name and/or in a different location on the server and not using mine (for the default folders like sent, trash, etc). Hopefully this version will work better and allow me to choose the location of these folders on my server rather that do it’s own thing.

    Comment by Andres — May 10, 2009 @ 6:51 pm

  8. will atmail 6 still support multi-server environments, we have two servers now and will need three in the next couple of months, but would like an better support for multi-server support such as easier updating of multiple servers, have an API like you have now (we have built a custom API around yours), not have domains in a array in a file (is slow to search for domains as there is so many). will this new version have such features?

    Comment by Steven Craig — May 11, 2009 @ 11:45 pm

  9. Hi there,

    Yes, improved multi-server support is planned for A6. We want to make it easier for ISP’s to offer multi-server instances, and make “Email Server” for the cloud deployments that much easier.

    Think memcached, all Atmail settings in SQL, CalDAV, fewer flat-file config files.

    We will be offering an easier API then we have now, returning XML, better formulated, and added API calls.

    Comment by Ben Duncan — May 12, 2009 @ 6:10 am

  10. A couple of (fairly small) features I’d love to see:
    - New mail alert in title bar (great when using tabs in browser)
    - Support for multiple identities (sending from multiple email address aliases)

    These invaluable features are currently what is stopping me moving to atmail from SquirrelMail.

    Comment by Marcus — May 21, 2009 @ 2:37 am

  11. The new Atmail looks great! However, will Hosted Atmail customers receive the upgrade also?

    And if so, when will this be?

    Comment by Wayne Harrison — May 23, 2009 @ 4:10 am

  12. How long will this release be delayed?

    Comment by Ehab — June 19, 2009 @ 5:37 am

  13. I second Ehab’s query above. Has a new release date been defined?

    Comment by Joel — June 19, 2009 @ 11:00 am

  14. Very strange that there isn\\\’t any information about this delay or any response from Atmail. I\\\’m awaiting purchase until I have gotten to test it, but the lack of response here (and in forum) makes me think twice if I should try it at all. Even a delay for 1 month or 3 months are okey for my part as long as they keep us informed and let us know they are alive…

    Comment by Are — July 7, 2009 @ 6:10 am

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