I am working on a project to create a few extremely stripped down interfaces for common Web/Internet tasks in order to make computers accessible to my visually impaired grandmother. Currently she uses Mac OS X Mail.app, but I had the idea that I could re-skin a webmail interface running on my own server to make it easier for her to use.
The ideal webmail interface to use as a starting point would be without frames or AJAX and written in Python, Perl, or PHP5+, though any setup could work as long as the template and stylesheet files were separate from the application itself.
This frontend must also connect to a remote IMAP server, since her email account is with her ISP and not on my server.
Can anyone recommend a bare-bones, no-nonsense webmail interface that would work for this?
http://roundcube.net/ looks pretty good and I've heard good things about it.
Personally, haven't used it in any huge capacity.
The other commonly used one is horde/imp which is used in a lot of various places, relatively simple from an end users point of view not so much so from a sysadmin point of view.
Hope that helps.
Squirrelmail is probably the simplest, but that doesn't necessarily equate to ease of use. I does support IMAP though, and customizing should be do-able, it is built in php.
http://squirrelmail.org/index.php
http://www.horde.org/imp/
it's a good webmail client
Atmail - http://www.atmail.com
http://squirrelmail.org
It's pretty simple.
Maybe HastyMail? (http://www.hastymail.org/) It does use AJAX however.
Give a look at this one:
http://nocc.sourceforge.net
It think it's the best for you.
Or this one:
http://www.hastymail.org/
Wouldn't Thunderbird, or Firefox + Stylish extension be enough to customize the interface for visually impaired person?