Christopher Wensink
2021-Mar-01 16:41 UTC
[CentOS] Recommendations for webmail client on EL8
Jay, I agree, the last post on https://squirrelmail.org/ was an announcement for PHP 5.4 and 5.5 Compatibility? from 5/30/2013. The last plugin update was 3/28/2014.? I consider squirrelmail pretty much dead at this point. On 3/1/2021 10:27 AM, Jay Hart wrote:> >>> Am 01.03.21 um 15:56 schrieb Simon Matter: >>>>> On 3/1/21 2:57 PM, Simon Matter wrote: >>>>>> ... >>>>>> 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. >>>>>> >>>>>> ... >>>>> Have you considered to run the official Roundcube container image as a >>>>> podmans systemd service? >>>>> >>>>> https://hub.docker.com/r/roundcube/roundcubemail/ >>>>> >>>>> https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/improved-systemd-podman (Podman >= 2.0 >>>>> required, but it's only a systemd service file to be created manually) >>>> Hi Thomas, >>>> >>>> Thanks for your suggestion. No, I'm not really thinking about >>>> docker/podman. I prefer having clean system installs, even if I have to >>>> create RPMs myself. This has worked fine for the last two decades but >>>> yes, >>>> I'm afraid, this is considered old school these days :-) >>>> >>> Hey Simon, take a look at Remi's repository ... >>> >>> -- >>> Leon >> Hi Leon, thanks. >> I'm wondering why these things are not in EPEL? >> >> Simon >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > Simon, > > I'm in same boat as you. I have a C6 machine running squirrelmail that I've been trying to get upgraded. I bought a new machine and have > C8 installed, postfix, dovecot, SA, the works, running. But, I couldn't get squirrelmail running. > > I'm also very interested in the answer to this question, "what webmail to run on C8" (or stream in the future). I've looked at the same > SW apps you have and have not really gotten a warm fuzzy over anything. > > I wonder if another tact to take would be to try to get squirrelmail more "modern". I know Les is still doing a bit of dev, but it does > seem like squirrelmail is lagging behind. > > MTC, > > Jay > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- Christopher Wensink IS Administrator Five Star Plastics, Inc 1339 Continental Drive Eau Claire, WI 54701 Office: 715-831-1682 Mobile: 715-563-3112 Fax: 715-831-6075 cwensink at five-star-plastics.com www.five-star-plastics.com
On 3/1/21 10:41 AM, Christopher Wensink wrote:> Jay, > > I agree, the last post on https://squirrelmail.org/ was an announcement > for PHP 5.4 and 5.5 Compatibility? from 5/30/2013. > > The last plugin update was 3/28/2014.? I consider squirrelmail pretty > much dead at this point. >No. it is not. It is not actively developed, no new featured are added for quite some time. Squirrelmail can be downloded here: https://squirrelmail.org/download.php Where you can see year 2021 stable version snapshots. Latest you can download works with PHP 7. As I said in another comment: they do not do new development. But they actively support what it is now, and in my estimate it will not be phased out in any observable future. Yes I had to do this kind of homework when I was rebuilding [freebsd jail with] webmail services. Valeri PS Not everything that paces fast with new "releases" and which releases security patches even more often (yes, I look at you, Mozilla firefox and thunderbird) is "pretty much dead". There are great examples, like: netscape navigator (in its time), cvs (in its time and still here), subversion, squirrelmail, mailman 2 to name few.> On 3/1/2021 10:27 AM, Jay Hart wrote: >> >>>> Am 01.03.21 um 15:56 schrieb Simon Matter: >>>>>> On 3/1/21 2:57 PM, Simon Matter wrote: >>>>>>> ... >>>>>>> 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. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ... >>>>>> Have you considered to run the official Roundcube container image >>>>>> as a >>>>>> podmans systemd service? >>>>>> >>>>>> https://hub.docker.com/r/roundcube/roundcubemail/ >>>>>> >>>>>> https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/improved-systemd-podman (Podman >= >>>>>> 2.0 >>>>>> required, but it's only a systemd service file to be created >>>>>> manually) >>>>> Hi Thomas, >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for your suggestion. No, I'm not really thinking about >>>>> docker/podman. I prefer having clean system installs, even if I >>>>> have to >>>>> create RPMs myself. This has worked fine for the last two decades but >>>>> yes, >>>>> I'm afraid, this is considered old school these days :-) >>>>> >>>> Hey Simon, take a look at Remi's repository ... >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Leon >>> Hi Leon, thanks. >>> I'm wondering why these things are not in EPEL? >>> >>> Simon >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> >> Simon, >> >> I'm in same boat as you. I have a C6 machine running squirrelmail that >> I've been trying to get upgraded. I bought a new machine and have >> C8 installed, postfix, dovecot, SA, the works, running.? But, I >> couldn't get squirrelmail running. >> >> I'm also very interested in the answer to this question, "what webmail >> to run on C8" (or stream in the future).? I've looked at the same >> SW apps you have and have not really gotten a warm fuzzy over anything. >> >> I wonder if another tact to take would be to try to get squirrelmail >> more "modern". I know Les is still doing a bit of dev, but it does >> seem like squirrelmail is lagging behind. >> >> MTC, >> >> Jay >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++