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
Hi Simon, I'm sure you must have noticed, but just to be clear: your aging C7 system has more life in it than a C8 system. C8 dies this December, C7 is projected to 30/6/24. Martin On 01/03/2021 13:57, 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 >-- J Martin Rushton MBCS
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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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) - Thomas
On 3/1/21 5:57 AM, Simon Matter wrote:> Is there anybody running webmail on EL8? Can you make a recommendation on > a certain tool?I've had good success with SOGo, and I publish scripts for building the free release as rpm packages: https://github.com/gordonmessmer/build-sogo If you decide to pay for a license, the vendor publishes their own rpm (yum) repository.