IMP 4.0

IMP H3 (4.0) is now available. This is a major upgrade on top of IMP 3.

The major changes compared to the IMP 3.x versions are:

  • Much improved message format support through Horde's rewritten MIME system
  • Many, many additional and improved mime viewers for attachments
  • Encrypting, signing, decrypting and verifying of signed and encrypted messages (PGP/GPG and S/MIME)
  • Message filters moved to a separate application (Ingo) to support more filter backends and a more robust/comprehensive/easy-to-use UI
  • Full charset support in folders, mailbox, message and compose views
  • Mail folders in the left menu
  • Experimental support for virtual folders
  • Preview of attachments in compose view
  • Send attachments as links
  • Option to not save attachments with sent mail
  • Navigation through message and mailbox views with arrow keys
  • View all messages of a thread
  • HTML message composition with a cross-browser WYSIWIG editor
  • Fetching mails from other email accounts to view with IMP
  • Message previews in mailbox view
  • Prevent message loss during compositon due to session timeouts
  • Management of shared IMAP folders
  • Priority settings for composed messages
  • User management for supported IMAP servers
  • Integrated quota support
  • Support for mailing list headers
  • Ability to forward multiple messages at once
  • Downloading of all attachments from a message as a single ZIP file
  • Stripping individual attachments from messages
  • Alias and "tied to" addresses in user identities
  • Authentication with Horde credentials
  • Graphical emoticons and country flags in message view
  • Various caching improvements to drastically minimize duplicate IMAP server->web server traffic

IMP 4.0 requires PHP 4.3.0 or higher, and will operate with version 3.0 of the Horde Application Framework.