alphix/snappymail

Simple, modern & fast web-based email client

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 RainLoop documentation.

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 - 2021 SnappyMail Copyright (c) 2013 - 2021 RainLoop

Modifications

This fork of RainLoop has the following changes:

• Privacy/GDPR friendly (no: Social, Gravatar, Facebook, Google, Twitter, DropBox, OwnCloud, X-Mailer)
• Admin uses password_hash/password_verify
• Auth failed attempts written to syslog
• Added Fail2ban instructions
• ES2015
• PHP 7.3+ required
• PHP mbstring extension required
• PHP replaced pclZip with PharData and ZipArchive
• PHP yaml extension else use the old Spyc
• 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 OAuth support
• Removed POP3 support
• Removed background video support
• Removed Sentry (Application Monitoring and Error Tracking Software)
• Replaced gulp-uglify with gulp-terser
• CRLF => LF line endings
• Embed boot.js and boot.css into index.html
• Ongoing removal of old JavaScript code (things are native these days)
• Added modified Squire HTML editor as replacement for CKEditor
• Split Admin 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
• Prevent Google FLoC
• Added Fetch Metadata Request Headers checks
• Reduced excessive DOM size

Supported browsers

This fork uses downsized/simplified versions of scripts and has no support for Internet Explorer nor Edge Legacy. Supported are:

• Chrome 69+
• Edge 79+
• Firefox 69+
• Opera 56+
• Safari 12+

Removal of old JavaScript

The result is faster and smaller download code (good for mobile networks).

• Added dev/prototype.js for some additional features
• boot.js without webpack overhead
• Modified Jua.js to be without jQuery
• Replaced ProgressJS with simple native dropin
• Replaced Autolinker with simple https/email detection
• Replaced ifvisible.js with simple drop-in replacement
• Replaced momentToNode with proper HTML5
• 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
• 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

RainLoop 1.15 vs SnappyMail

js/*	RainLoop	Snappy
admin.js	2.158.025	91.050
app.js	4.215.733	451.709
boot.js	672.433	2.861
libs.js	647.679	214.458
polyfills.js	325.908	0
serviceworker.js	0	285
TOTAL	8.019.778	760.363

js/min/*	RainLoop	Snappy	RL gzip	SM gzip	RL brotli	SM brotli
admin.min.js	255.514	47.330	73.899	14.216	60.674	12.715
app.min.js	516.000	232.217	140.430	68.323	110.657	57.830
boot.min.js	66.456	1.621	22.553	968	20.043	810
libs.min.js	574.626	103.928	177.280	37.795	151.855	33.829
polyfills.min.js	32.608	0	11.315	0	10.072	0
TOTAL	1.445.204	385.096	425.477	121.302	353.301	105.184
TOTAL (no admin)	1.189.690	337.766	351.061	107.086	292.627	92.469

For a user its around 68% smaller and faster than traditional RainLoop.

OpenPGP	RainLoop	Snappy	RL gzip	SM gzip	RL brotli	SM brotli
openpgp.min.js	330.742	293.972	102.388	93.030	84.241	77.142
openpgp.worker	1.499	1.125	824	567	695	467

CSS changes

• Solve jQuery removed "features" with native css code
• Themes work in mobile mode
• Bugfix invalid/conflicting css rules
• Use flexbox
• 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 vendors/bootstrap/less/breadcrumbs.less
• Removed vendors/bootstrap/less/navbar.less
• Removed vendors/bootstrap/less/popovers.less
• Removed vendors/bootstrap/less/progress-bars.less
• Removed vendors/bootstrap/less/scaffolding.less
• Removed vendors/bootstrap/less/sprites.less
• Removed vendors/bootstrap/less/tooltip.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	340.334	96.105	46,959	17.510	15.104
app.min.css	274.791	78.371	39.618	15.671	13.804
boot.css		1.326		664	545
boot.min.css		1.071		590	474
admin.css		40.198		8.442	7.371
admin.min.css		31.756		7.401	6.572

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?!?)
• support BIDI (really needed?!?)

	normal	min	gzip	min gzip
squire	128.826	47.074	33.671	15.596
ckeditor	?	520.035	?	155.916

CKEditor including the 7 asset requests (css,language,plugins,icons) is 633.46 KB / 180.47 KB (gzip).

To use the old CKEditor, you must install the plugin.