Litepost: Streamlined web 2.0 webmail quietly open for registration

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Litepost: Streamlined web 2.0 webmail quietly open for registration

by David Chartier Aug 19th 2007

Webmail is a hot industry these days, with Gmail, Yahoo! and nearly every provider in between vying for users by adding as many features as they can dream up. Fortunately, a small provider named Litepost is taking a different approach, offering a streamlined webmail interface with just a dash of web 2.0 to help bring your email into the 21st century web. We found Litepost back in June when they announced very limited private beta testing of their product, and it seems as though they have quietly lifted the veil so the public can sign up. While there is no official announcement on the company's blog, the Litepost registration page is live and working, and we were able to sign up for an address just fine.

Litepost stands out with a number of unique features, including email tagging and rating, as well as interesting 'Who, What, When, Why' sorting methods with which, for example, you can sort by date first, then sender (or vice versa). You can also arbitrarily group messages together for any reason, solving one of the complaints of the message threading or conversation view that Gmail made popular. Another strong appeal of Litepost is the fact that it is open source, and a Litepost Webmail Server is in the works, which will allow individuals, organizations and businesses to download and install the Litepost software on their own server for domain and security goodness.

If all this has sparked your attention, take Litepost for a spin. In our testing we found its features and unique UI to be quite compelling, and its open source, portable nature will likely give it some legs with which to grow.

Thanks Alex

Tags: email, Litepost, open source, OpenSource, rating, tagging, tags, webmail

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mex said 11:27AM on 8-19-2007

Heh, thanks for this downloadsquad! Just registered. Hope it's good!

Chris said 12:34PM on 8-19-2007

Seems busted to me - the second you register on the left it says thank you on the right. But when you login it said my attempt was invalid. I tried with & without the @litepost.com, and tried re-registering but it did recognize my name as "in use." So... no go so far. Maybe it's just busy.

raycosm said 12:43PM on 8-19-2007

Registered and logged in fine for me.

Alex Leonard said 7:02PM on 8-19-2007

Hmm.. I've logged in and tested it out, and maybe I need to give it more of a chance but I'm not really seeing the attraction.

The navigation doesn't feel very intuitive to me, and though I know it's designed to be lightweight, and basic, but is there really a need to drop quick links to inbox and sent. I know "home" is the inbox I suppose, but having to click on Tags then Click on Sent to see your sent mail seems a little excessive.

fanpages said 4:55AM on 8-22-2007

Tried to sign-up to show interest in the testing of upcoming limited beta, but their form validation did not allow my .info e-mail address.

Seems like they need to do a lot of work in advance of the beta!

BFN,

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