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SquirrelMail is being removed from cPanel

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Re: SquirrelMail is being removed from cPanel

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Post by badsectoracula »

upofadown wrote: post #52
badsectoracula wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

My, perhaps incomplete, understanding is that you can just run the old thing if you can support PHP5. Otherwise you can run the eternal dev version, but you will have access to fewer plugins. 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.

I do not use any plugins so i'll probably try the "eternal dev" version. Hopefully it'll be fine.

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Post by epse »

teddyh wrote: post #38
martin1975 wrote: post #2

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?

https://www.mailpile.is/ “ Community funded and supported ”

It's quite nice but I wouldn't consider it production ready really... I contribute to it every now and then

Re: SquirrelMail is being removed from cPanel

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Post by drdeadringer »

I host my websites and have subsequent email via DreamHost.

When I first signed up right around their billing fiasco ~10 years ago, they where on SquirrelMail with a hardstop "convert to gMail" option. They have since switched to a different email default [AtMail] about 1.5 years ago.

On one hand I miss SquirrelMail. On the other hand, I now understand the change [ageing tech]. There has been a learning curve along with A/B testing, for example having the "hardcore delete all emails in your primary inbox" button right next to your "refresh your primary inbox" button... bad times which have been solved.

Re: SquirrelMail is being removed from cPanel

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Post by BeetleB »

teddyh wrote: post #43
BeetleB wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Roundcube doesn't handle large inboxes well. Squirrelmail had this nice option where I could set a BCC for every email - I BCC all my emails to myself (hack to get around another problem). Roundcube has no such option. In my experience, I have seen no benefit that Roundcube has (feature-wise) other than being prettier.

> Squirrelmail had this nice option where I could set a BCC for every email I can see such an option in Roundcube 1.2.3. Under Settings/Identities/[WhateverIdentity] there is a “BCC” field, which seems to be exactly what you want. (This is not an endorsement of Roundcube – I use Gnus myself.)

My provider must be using an older Roundcube. I don't have that setting.
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