[CentOS] Centos 8 install of squirrelmail

Mon Dec 2 19:56:34 UTC 2019
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>


On 2019-12-02 13:46, Earl Terwilliger via CentOS wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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...

Horde webmail seems to be closest in appearance and interaction with 
user. Round cube is way different. I must confess though, I didn't have 
time to try horde webmail yet.

Yes, and Fedora fully escaped my mind... so Fedora source package 
rebuilt on your system may be the smoothest solution.

Valeri

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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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