Hail

Hail is a web based Hotmail client written in PHP. This client will give users some advanced abilities over their hotmail account. At this time the plans for Hail's future looks good. The Hail connection class is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Hail is now being rebuilt from the ground up. We decided that logging into the Hotmail webpage and parsing the HTML was neither efficient or reliable. The new version makes use of the HTTPMail protocol that Outlook Express versions 5 and above use. As such, all old code has been scrapped, and a team effort is turning out the new code. A couple of general goals are to have a cleaner interface than hotmail with little or no ads, and a reusable PHP API for use in other applications. All HTTP authentication and XML parsing code have been hand-implemented, and there is no reliance on third party libraries. The reason for this is that we decided that people with only PHP installed should still be able to use Hail without having to have root / Administrator access on the server to install extra libraries etc. (Also Craig's web hosting provider doesn't have cURL etc. :) We're very interested in hearing what kind of features and functionality our users would like to see implemented. If you're not a user yet because a major feature is missing, or because of a bug that we don't seem to have listed as a todo item, let us know and we'll probably add it to the bug list or the proposed feature list. Version .07a is out, and now includes the ability to delete email, among several interface changes and other new features. Visit the Hail site for more info.