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#Squirrelmail webmail update#
#Squirrelmail webmail code#

Removing SquirrelMail from our webmail options leaves us with only Horde and Roundcube. Just a note: it will be the server administrator’s responsibility to keep SquirrelMail up to date if updates are released.

#Squirrelmail webmail code#

Follow our documentation on Integrating Custom Webmail Applications, and get the code from the SquirrelMail website. We understand that SquirrelMail’s faithful fans will not welcome this decision, but we have good news! You can continue to use SquirrelMail after version 78 because cPanel & WHM supports custom webmail applications. Rather than continuing to ship an unmaintained application, we decided to remove SquirrelMail.

Webmail users now expect a better experience than SquirrelMail provides.

Exclude the security fix and ship SquirrelMail with known security flaws, ship a secure version with known interface issues, or attempt to fix the problems. Unfortunately, recent security patches have significant problems, forcing us into a choice. In those seven years, 4 versions of PHP have reached End of Life, and we have worked with others in the community to maintain SquirrelMail.

#Squirrelmail webmail update#

SquirrelMail’s last update was May 30th, 2013, with their last release on July 12th, 2011.When that happens, its users often leave as well. A once active, vibrant developer community diminishes as other things take priority. An all too common story with open source projects is a loss of invested developers.While other webmail applications failed, SquirrelMail was reliable. Technical support personnel especially appreciated it because of its predictability.

Its stability drew a faithful following among all types of users. Few webmail applications have provided such a stable, feature-rich experience. It hasn’t changed much in appearance or feature set since its introduction. SquirrelMail was added to cPanel back when webmail first became an option for cPanel users more than a decade ago. We also are opening a dialogue with you, our community, about our next steps. As this change will disrupt many users, we are taking this opportunity to explain the reasons behind our decision. We expect to stop shipping SquirrelMail for new installations of cPanel & WHM in version 76 and will remove our support with version 78. If you need more information, check out our Deprecation Plan for up-to-date details.Īs of cPanel & WHM version 74, we will begin to deprecate our support of SquirrelMail, one of our bundled webmail applications. Don’t worry, though-this deletion won’t impact any end-user data. Update 10/29/18: Great success! In cPanel & WHM version 78, we have removed SquirrelMail entirely, and we will no longer support any SquirrelMail integrations on cPanel & WHM servers.