B1gMail

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b1gMail
Developer(s) b1gMail Project
Initial release2002
Stable release
7.4 / 24. February 2018
Preview release
7.4.1-rc1 / 14. October 2023
Repository www.github.com/b1gMail-OSS/b1gMail
Written in PHP
Operating system Linux, Windows
Platform PHP / MariaDB
Available inGerman, English
Type Webmail
License GPLv2, before proprietary
Website www.b1gmail.eu

b1gMail is an e-mail system developed mainly in PHP. In contrast to other webmailers, b1gMail is designed to offer visitors e-mail address. It comes with own storage system and can also run on a web space with PHP and MySQL. The source code has been freely available under the GPLv2 license since 2022.

Contents

b1gMail has a wide range of functions, such as multilingualism, sending email attachments, full support for MIME and HTML message formats, calendar, to-do list, SMS support, extensive filter rules and a built-in spam filter. The functional scope of b1gMail can also be extended with plug-ins.

b1gMail supports following receiving methods:

b1gMailServer

b1gMailServer is an add-on for b1gMail and provides a POP3, IMAP and SMTP server. It can also be used as an MTA. b1gMailServer is written in C/C++. Since 2023, the source code has been published for the first time and the license has been changed to GPLv2. [1]

History

The project started in year 2002. [2] There was a Lite and a Pro version, but these were combined into one version shortly afterwards. [3]

With the release of Version 6, B1G Software ended the free release of b1gMail. [4] In 2019, B1G Software discontinued b1gMail. [5] B1G Software announced that it would place b1gMail under an open license. This was completed in 2023.

b1gMail 6 had an experimental monitoring function in accordance with the German Telekommunikations-Überwachungsverordnung. [6] It was removed with the release of version 7.

All b1gMail 6 versions have an Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in hilfe.php which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the chapter parameter. [7]

Features

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References

  1. "b1gMailServer". github.com. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  2. "Release 2.0.0 Lite". sourceforge.net (in German). Archived from the original on 2013-07-14. Retrieved 2023-02-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. "b1gMail Pro kostenlos". sk-stgeorg.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  4. "b1gMail 6 - Information". b1g.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2004-06-05. Retrieved 2023-02-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. "Zukunft von b1gMail". b1gmail.com (in German). Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  6. "Abhörverpflichtungen verunsichern Webmail-Anbieter [Update]". heise.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  7. "CVE Record: CVE-2007-4975". cve.org. Retrieved 2024-04-05.