[CentOS] Centos 8 install of squirrelmail

Mon Dec 2 19:46:27 UTC 2019
Earl Terwilliger <earl at micpc.com>

>
>
> On 2019-12-02 13:15, Earl Terwilliger via CentOS wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to install Squirrelmail on Centos 8 but it seems that
>> package
>> is missing in the EPEL repo for Centos 8? Anyone know if this was on
>> purpose or how to tell which packages won't be created?
>
> As far as I know, squirrelmail is noT actively maintained for quite some
> time:
>
> https://www.squirrelmail.org/
>
> For this reason, variety of distributions phase it out, or may do it
> soon. Latest version coming as port on FreeBSD is dated Apr 4, 2018 (it
> runs under PHP-7.2 so I'm happy so far). I maintain two webmail front
> ends: squirrelmail and round cube. I plan to replace squirrelmail with
> Horde webmail soon.
>
> I hope, this helps.
>
> Valeri
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Earl
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Thanks.. Squirrelmail is still available on Fedora 31 so I was thinking it
still should be around for centos 8 (and it does work on the latest
versions of php)

I will have to look around for something to replace it but the big problem
is getting the users to like something new...

Earl