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The headline is misleading by itself. SquirrelMail is still getting security fixes and is under active (but slow) development.
Is it in a fork? The official site isn't updated since 2013 and Debian removed it in recent versions (jessie is the last to have it) because of that. Do you happen to know where the new versions and development are? Squirrelmail is by far my favorite webmail setup, i use it for almost 15 years now and exactly what i like about it is that it has remained pretty much the same all these years, so i'd like to make a manu…
Added: It appears there is some version 1.4.23 (the old thing) that will run on PHP7. I am currently running 1.4.22 on PHP5 under OpenBSD with no problems. The problem seems to be in figuring out what version to run.
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Assuming you have a clueful and attentive upstream ISP and a static /29 or something, running your own mail out of your closet with proper rDNS, spf and dkim probably has better chance of delivery success than the same software setup, but on a dedicated server sharing a /24 of IP space with clueless and occasionally abuse-generating neighboring customers in the same netblock.
I have all that except for delegated reverse DNS, but that hasn't been a problem (again, to my knowledge!).
Correctly set PTR RRs can (will) make a huge difference (lots of MTAs will reject if FCrDNS fails).
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I have all that except for delegated reverse DNS, but that hasn't been a problem (again, to my knowledge!).
You don't really need rDNS delegated to you (and I'm pretty sure that's not what walrus01 meant), just so long as you can set (or have your ISP set) the PTR RRs to match. Correctly set PTR RRs can (will) make a huge difference (lots of MTAs will reject if FCrDNS fails).
Suppose 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?
> Who has successfully made a webmail front end that they could sell? FastMail, but they had to put a whole service behind it.
The other two options, roundcube and horde, which I updated recently at cPanel, are much better.
There was talk about integrating Mailpile into cPanel years ago[1] - I remember discussing it with an acquaintance who worked at cPanel at the time. I wonder why it never gained traction with either them, or any other web hosting/control panels? Plesk for example, which is probably cPanel's biggest competitor, exclusively bundles Roundcube. [1] https://features.cpanel.net/topic/add-mailpile-as-webmail-op...
Squirrelmail was unmaintained, hence it's deprecated. I did maintain some patches decades ago, but don't work with PHP anymore for several years. And not with cPanel anymore either. Dropping squirrel was discussed 5 years ago already.
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protonmail won my business (which is extremely hard to do because I'm a cheap) and I've been using the internet since 1992. I use to run elm on a terminal. They also have a VPN and when you email support, you basically get a 3rd level engineer response within an hour. I forward all my gmail mail to my proton account, and use it for personal and one of my business. I keep banking and bills on gmail for now.
Protonmail has no full-text search nor spam detection. Which you probably don't notice because you forward Gmail -> Protonmail. ;)
ProtonMail is easily one of the best mail services I've used; particularly now that there's an IMAP bridge.
Is cPanel itself still widely used?
Suppose 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?
They make an open source webmail + drive + docs suite, and sell a commercial version (e.g. to ISPs). The software is great and they're still around, so it must be working out for them.