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NeoMail, Horde and SquirrelMail are 3 commonly free webmail client offer by most hosting company (limited to linux hosts only). 

1.  NeoMail
   Neomail has been discontinued due to long-standing security and stability issues, and the fact that the largest control panel vendor, cPanel, has also discontinued support for Neomail
2.  Horde
   I find Horde mail client (Internet Messaging Program or the IMP) is the best, It is written in PHP and provides webmail access to IMAP and POP3 accounts. It is included with cPanel and Plesk installations as a webmail client. It often integrates email, calendar, address book, notes, tasks, filters and a newsreader with cPanel.Check out screenshots here.
3. Squirrelmail
   The SquirrelMail client itself is a complete webmail system, but extra features are available in the form of plugins. A plugin allows non-standard features to be added to SquirrelMail, often without the need to modify the source code. There are over 200 third-party plugins available for download from the SquirrelMail website, and SquirrelMail ships with several “standard” or “core” plugins, allowing an administrator to add:
   • Spell checking (squirrelspell)
   • Mail filters (filters)
   • Web-based administration of SquirrelMail (administrator)
   • A calendar (calendar)
   • An interface to submit bug reports semi-automatically (bug_report)

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net2ftp - is a Php web based FTP client and a web based file manager.

Screen shots

Browse the FTP server	View a code with syntax highlighting
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Features highlight

• Navigate the FTP server
  Once you have logged in, you can browse from directory to directory and see all the subdirectories and files.
• Upload files
  There are 3 different ways to upload files: the standard upload form, the upload-and-unzip functionality, and the Java Applet.
• Download files
  Click on a filename to quickly download one file.
  Select multiple files and click on Download; the selected files will be downloaded in a zip archive.
• Zip files
  … and save the zip archive on the FTP server, or email it to someone.
• Unzip files
  Different formats are supported: .zip, .tar, .tgz and .gz.
• Install software
  Choose from a list of popular applications (PHP required on the target server).
• Copy, move and delete
  Directories are handled recursively, meaning that their content (subdirectories and files) will also be copied, moved or deleted.
• Copy or move to a 2nd FTP server
  Handy to import files to your FTP server, or to export files from your FTP server to another FTP server.
• Rename and chmod
  Chmod handles directories recursively.
• View code with syntax highlighting
  PHP functions are linked to the documentation on php.net.
• Plain text editor
  Edit text right from your browser; every time you save the changes the new file is transferred to the FTP server.
• HTML editors
  Edit HTML a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) form; there are 2 different editors to choose from (FCKEditor and TinyMCE).
• Code editor
  Edit HTML and PHP in an editor with syntax highlighting (CodePress).
• Search for words or phrases
  Filter out files based on the filename, last modification time and filesize.
• Calculate size
  Calculate the size of directories and files.

Server Requirements

• PHP 4.2.3 and above.
• PHP 5 and MySQL are optional.
• Works perfectly on safe_mode

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Installing a Php MySQL + Apache development environment was once very frustrating (especially on Windows Vista !) until XAMPP launched.

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start. The best part is IT IS FREE.

I have only tried the Windows version and is already loved it ! The windows version works on Windows 98, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista. This version contains: Apache, MySQL, PHP + PEAR, Perl, mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System for Win32 and NetWare Systems v3.32, Ming, JpGraph, FileZilla FTP Server, mcrypt, eAccelerator, SQLite, and WEB-DAV + mod_auth_mysql

Screen shots.

Why I like XAMPP so much ?

1. The installation is really easy on my Vista notebook, I do not have to handle the troublesome Vista User account control (UAC).
2. Installation comes with latest Apache 2.6, php 4 & 5, MySQL 5+
3. Zend optimer is included.
4. Switching between Php 4 and Php 5 is very simple.
5. Apache and MySQL can run as service of run adhoc.

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