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Cypht Official Descriptions

Use these official descriptions whenever representing Cypht: websites, package registries, social-media profiles, app directories, press releases, presentations, or documentation. Choose the version that best fits your space constraints and audience.

Descriptions

Tagline

Open-source webmail aggregator: all your accounts, one place.

Very short

A modular, open-source webmail aggregator.

Short

Free and Open Source webmail aggregator that combines multiple email accounts (IMAP, JMAP, and EWS) into a single unified interface, with cross-account search, Sieve filters, contacts, calendar, and a built-in RSS reader.

Short-ish

Cypht is a Free and Open Source webmail aggregator written in PHP and JavaScript. It unifies multiple IMAP, JMAP, and EWS email accounts into a single interface — with a combined inbox, cross-account search, server-side Sieve filter management, contact management (local, LDAP, CardDAV, Gmail), a built-in calendar, RSS/Atom feed reader, PGP encryption, two-factor authentication, message tagging, and more. Fully modular and embeddable via Composer.

160 characters

Free/Open Source webmail aggregator. Unified inbox across IMAP, JMAP & EWS accounts. Sieve, contacts, calendar, RSS, PGP, 2FA. PHP/JS.

(152 characters — suitable for Twitter/X bios, Open Graph meta descriptions, Packagist/Docker Hub summaries.)

Medium — use-case focus

Cypht is built for anyone who manages more than one email account. Instead of switching between clients or browser tabs, Cypht brings all your IMAP, JMAP, and EWS inboxes into one place: a unified inbox, a unified unread view, a unified flagged view, and cross-account search. You can copy and move messages between accounts, apply server-side Sieve filters, and manage contacts from multiple sources (local, LDAP, CardDAV, Gmail) — all from a single self-hosted interface.

Beyond email, Cypht integrates RSS/Atom feeds, GitHub notifications, and WordPress.com notices into the same unified view, so you can handle all your important incoming information in one workflow. Cypht is also one of the very few webmail clients listed on jmap.io/software.html, making it a forward-looking choice for modern email infrastructure.

It runs on standard shared hosting, requires no specialised server infrastructure, and can be embedded into other PHP applications via Composer (Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, for example, ships Cypht as its integrated webmail component). All features are delivered through optional, swappable module sets, making it straightforward to tailor Cypht to your exact needs.

Medium — feature focus

Cypht (Free/Open Source, LGPL-2.1) is a webmail aggregator with a fully modular architecture written in PHP and JavaScript. Its main features include:

  • Multi-protocol email: IMAP, SMTP, JMAP, and EWS
  • Unified views: combined inbox, unread, flagged, and "everything" pages across all configured accounts
  • Cross-account and advanced search spanning all IMAP/JMAP accounts
  • Copy and move messages between accounts
  • Sieve filter management: create and manage server-side email filters
  • Contact management: local contacts, LDAP, CardDAV, and read-only Gmail contacts
  • Calendar: basic calendar with CalDAV/iCal integration
  • RSS/Atom feed reader: natively integrated into combined views
  • PGP encryption: sign, encrypt, and decrypt messages in the browser
  • Two-factor authentication (2FA): TOTP with QR-code setup and backup codes
  • Message tags/labels: organise email across all accounts
  • Multiple sender profiles: tie IMAP/SMTP servers together with display name, reply-to address, and signature
  • Themes: customisable UI via CSS overrides
  • Keyboard shortcuts: fully configurable navigation
  • Desktop notifications: browser-level alerts for newly arrived messages
  • Inline message view, colour highlights per account, saved searches, idle-timeout auto-logout, and settings recovery
  • Integrations: GitHub repository notifications, WordPress.com notices, NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
  • API login / SSO: single sign-on integration with other web applications
  • Session backends: PHP files, relational database, Memcached, or Redis
  • Embeddable: available on Packagist, usable as a library in other PHP apps
  • Docker: official image for rapid deployment

Medium — general

Cypht is a Free and Open Source (LGPL-2.1) webmail aggregator written in PHP and JavaScript. Unlike most webmail clients that treat multiple accounts as isolated silos, Cypht's core philosophy is aggregation: all configured accounts — whether IMAP, JMAP, or EWS — are surfaced in unified combined views, letting users read, search, copy, and manage email from every account in a single interface.

Cypht is built entirely from module sets (its term for plugins), making it highly extensible and straightforward to embed in other PHP applications via Composer. It runs on standard shared hosting, requires no special server infrastructure, and ships with Docker support for rapid deployment. With native JMAP support — listed on jmap.io/software.html alongside only a handful of other clients — Cypht is at the frontier of next-generation email protocol support. An active international community continues to develop and maintain the project under the cypht-org organisation on GitHub.

Long

Cypht is a Free and Open Source (LGPL-2.1) webmail aggregator written in PHP and JavaScript, actively maintained by an international community. Its central design philosophy distinguishes it from conventional webmail clients: rather than treating each email account as an isolated silo, Cypht combines all configured accounts — IMAP, JMAP, or EWS — into shared, unified views. A single combined inbox, a combined unread view, a combined flagged view, and cross-account search make it genuinely practical to manage multiple email addresses from different providers in one place, including the ability to copy or move messages between accounts.

Cypht is built entirely from module sets — its name for a plugin system so thorough that even core functionality is delivered through modules. This architecture makes Cypht unusually flexible: features can be enabled, disabled, or replaced without modifying the core, and the whole application can be embedded in a larger PHP project by pulling it in via Composer. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, for example, ships Cypht as its integrated webmail component. The application runs on standard shared hosting, requires no specialised infrastructure beyond PHP and a database, and is also available as a Docker image.

On the protocol front, Cypht supports IMAP, SMTP, JMAP, and Exchange Web Services (EWS). JMAP support is still rare among webmail clients; Cypht is one of the few listed on jmap.io/software.html. A built-in account wizard guides new users through service discovery and setup, with OAuth2 support for providers such as Gmail, and a dynamic-login flow that attempts to auto-discover connection settings for any custom domain.

Beyond email, Cypht reaches into adjacent territory. An RSS/Atom feed reader is integrated directly into the combined views so that news items receive the same first-class attention as email messages. GitHub repository notifications and WordPress.com notices can be added to the same unified timeline. A basic calendar with CalDAV/iCal support is included, along with a full contact management layer that supports local contacts, LDAP servers, CardDAV servers, and read-only Gmail contacts.

Security receives careful consideration throughout. User sessions can be stored in PHP files, a relational database, Memcached, or Redis. Session data and user settings are encrypted with libsodium. Two-factor authentication (TOTP, with QR-code setup and backup codes) and SCRAM authentication for IMAP are supported, as is experimental end-to-end PGP encryption for composing and reading encrypted messages. Google reCAPTCHA can be added to the login page, and an idle-timeout module logs users out automatically after a configurable period of inactivity. Settings themselves are encrypted using the user's password as the key basis, and a dedicated module allows settings to be recovered if the password is ever changed externally.

Additional features include: Sieve server-side filter management, message tagging and labelling, colour highlights per account to visually distinguish sources at a glance, saved searches, multiple sender profiles (each tying an IMAP account, an SMTP server, a display name, a reply-to address, and a signature together), fully customisable keyboard shortcuts, inline message preview, desktop browser notifications, a theme system based on CSS overrides, an API login module enabling single sign-on from other web applications, developer tools that expose the full module map and system status, and a history view that tracks recently read content across all sources.

Cypht is an ideal choice for individuals, organisations, and developers who value:

  • Aggregation: a genuinely unified view of all email accounts, not just a list of isolated mailboxes
  • Protocol breadth: JMAP alongside the established IMAP/SMTP stack and EWS
  • Openness: LGPL-licensed, with a transparent, community-driven development process
  • Flexibility: a modular design that is easy to extend, embed, and deploy on a wide range of hosting environments — from shared hosting to containers

Notes on usage

Version Best suited for
Tagline GitHub repository description, organisation profile, one-line mentions in feature comparison lists
160 characters Twitter/X biography, Open Graph og:description, Packagist and Docker Hub summary fields
Short / Short-ish README headers, feature-comparison tables, slide decks
Medium Project website "About" pages, blog posts, press coverage
Long Project documentation, grant applications, in-depth editorial coverage

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