SquirrelMail is being removed from cPanel
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SquirrelMail is being removed from cPanel
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Re: SquirrelMail is being removed from cPanel
#2Suppose one was to write a decent webmail front-end, how exactly does one make enough money to sustain its development, even if it's a one or two person effort?
I love open source but there's also a need for developers to live off what they make.
Who has successfully made a webmail front end that they could sell?
Re: SquirrelMail is being removed from cPanel
#3The article is pretty clickbaity. While the assertion that Squirrelmail has died is probably correct, the title makes it sound like it would be an explanation on what happened. Instead, it’s just describing the motivations on why cPanel is removing Squirrelmail, while trying to proclaim the death of Squirrelmail in the process.
Re: SquirrelMail is being removed from cPanel
#4Spam domain filters virtually killed self-hosted e-mail and what I presume was their major use case.
Re: SquirrelMail is being removed from cPanel
#5For those looking for good fully self hosted alternatives, two options:
Roundcube
Rainloop
Squirrel mail is dead, but self hosted webmail is far from dead. Some .EDUs with student populations of 12,000+ use roundcube for their https interface student mail.
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#6Suppose one was to write a decent webmail front-end, how exactly does one make enough money to sustain its development, even if it's a one or two person effort? I love open source but there's also a need for developers to live off what they make. Who has successfully made a webmail front end that they could sell?
What about https://sogo.nu ?
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#7Suppose one was to write a decent webmail front-end, how exactly does one make enough money to sustain its development, even if it's a one or two person effort? I love open source but there's also a need for developers to live off what they make. Who has successfully made a webmail front end that they could sell?
I think the rainloop developers make some income from support and custom installations.
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#8Suppose one was to write a decent webmail front-end, how exactly does one make enough money to sustain its development, even if it's a one or two person effort? I love open source but there's also a need for developers to live off what they make. Who has successfully made a webmail front end that they could sell?
Same way any venture does: by collecting money from people who want the product to exist. If there are too many freeloaders and not enough contributors, then free licensing is not a viable option. Development of the software can still be done in a public repo.
Re: SquirrelMail is being removed from cPanel
#9Roundcube is good enough. The only problem with my cPanel-powered shared hosting is that filtering isn't part of the Roundcube application but is taken care of by another cPanel app(let). I'd rather have it all in Roundcube.
Re: SquirrelMail is being removed from cPanel
#10The article is pretty clickbaity. While the assertion that Squirrelmail has died is probably correct, the title makes it sound like it would be an explanation on what happened. Instead, it’s just describing the motivations on why cPanel is removing Squirrelmail, while trying to proclaim the death of Squirrelmail in the process.
I'd wager cPanel accounts for the vast majority of Squirrelmail installs these days. If they quit shipping it, its remaining user base is going to quickly dwindle.