CentOS - Mar 2021 - Recommendations for webmail client on EL8

Hi Simon, we used to use Squirrelmail also, but have since migrated to 
RoundCube. It's easy enough to install on a CentOS 7 server (we don't 
use EL8) by downloading directly from the Roundcube website and 
following the installation instructions. The interface is clean, modern, 
and the project gets frequent updates. Updates have been mostly 
painless, but they can overwrite some of the customizations one might 
have made so that is a pain (mostly any CSS customizations or changes to 
the default .htaccess file which relates to PHP upload size).

I don't recall needing any hard to find RPMs - we generally don't stray 
further than what is available via the CentOS repositories or EPEL.

--Blake

On 3/1/2021 7:57 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm still trying to find solutions to replace some aging EL6 and EL7
systems.
>
> This time I'm looking at email. Postfix and Cyrus-IMAPd are not a
problem
> and also additional things like DKIM are fine. However, I'm wondering
what
> to use to replace good old squirrelmail with.
>
> We had a heavily patched squirrelmail with lots of nice things like
> avelsieve plugin. Since squirrelmail is dead and unable to run on newer
> PHP, I'd like to use some other tool instead.
>
> I was looking at Roundcube but it seems difficult on EL8 because a lot of
> PHP stuff is missing and not available as RPMs. I guess the same is true
> for the python things needed for Mailpile. In the end my list only
> contains Cypht, Rainloop and Afterlogic Webmail lite.
>
> Is there anybody running webmail on EL8? Can you make a recommendation on
> a certain tool?
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
>
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> Hi Simon, we used to use Squirrelmail also, but have since migrated to
> RoundCube. It's easy enough to install on a CentOS 7 server (we
don't
> use EL8) by downloading directly from the Roundcube website and
> following the installation instructions. The interface is clean, modern,
> and the project gets frequent updates. Updates have been mostly
> painless, but they can overwrite some of the customizations one might
> have made so that is a pain (mostly any CSS customizations or changes to
> the default .htaccess file which relates to PHP upload size).
>
> I don't recall needing any hard to find RPMs - we generally don't
stray
> further than what is available via the CentOS repositories or EPEL.
Well, I know it's not a problem on EL7 but I'd like to upgrade to
something which is a bit more future proof. There's even a roundcube
package in EPEL7 but none in EPEL8, and I guess I know why :-)

Seems quite difficult to do this on EL8:
https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/wiki/Install-Requirements

Simon
>
> --Blake
>
> On 3/1/2021 7:57 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm still trying to find solutions to replace some aging EL6 and
EL7
>> systems.
>>
>> This time I'm looking at email. Postfix and Cyrus-IMAPd are not a
>> problem
>> and also additional things like DKIM are fine. However, I'm
wondering
>> what
>> to use to replace good old squirrelmail with.
>>
>> We had a heavily patched squirrelmail with lots of nice things like
>> avelsieve plugin. Since squirrelmail is dead and unable to run on newer
>> PHP, I'd like to use some other tool instead.
>>
>> I was looking at Roundcube but it seems difficult on EL8 because a lot
>> of
>> PHP stuff is missing and not available as RPMs. I guess the same is
true
>> for the python things needed for Mailpile. In the end my list only
>> contains Cypht, Rainloop and Afterlogic Webmail lite.
>>
>> Is there anybody running webmail on EL8? Can you make a recommendation
>> on
>> a certain tool?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Simon
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> CentOS mailing list
>> CentOS at centos.org
>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>
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