SquirrelMail is being removed from cPanel

I&#x27;m honestly surprised to find out that it was still being ahipped.<p>It was the first webmail application offered at a .edu I worked at and that&#x27;s been 15 years ago. It was -- or so it seemed -- &quot;dead&quot; <i>then</i>.

Suppose one was to write a decent webmail front-end, how exactly does one make enough money to sustain its development, even if it&#x27;s a one or two person effort?<p>I love open source but there&#x27;s also a need for developers to live off what they make.<p>Who has successfully made a webmail front end that they could sell?

For those looking for good fully self hosted alternatives, two options:<p>Roundcube<p>Rainloop<p>Squirrel mail is dead, but self hosted webmail is far from dead. Some .EDUs with student populations of 12,000+ use roundcube for their https interface student mail.

Spam domain filters virtually killed self-hosted e-mail and what I presume was their major use case.

Roundcube is good enough. The only problem with my cPanel-powered shared hosting is that filtering isn&#x27;t part of the Roundcube application but is taken care of by another cPanel app(let). I&#x27;d rather have it all in Roundcube.

There was talk about integrating Mailpile into cPanel years ago[1] - I remember discussing it with an acquaintance who worked at cPanel at the time. I wonder why it never gained traction with either them, or any other web hosting&#x2F;control panels? Plesk for example, which is probably cPanel&#x27;s biggest competitor, exclusively bundles Roundcube.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;features.cpanel.net&#x2F;topic&#x2F;add-mailpile-as-webmail-option" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;features.cpanel.net&#x2F;topic&#x2F;add-mailpile-as-webmail-op...</a>

I kinda developed a little dislike about Horde, but I heard good things about Kopano, which also works as workgroup software.

I host my websites and have subsequent email via DreamHost.<p>When I first signed up right around their billing fiasco ~10 years ago, they where on SquirrelMail with a hardstop &quot;convert to gMail&quot; option. They have since switched to a different email default [AtMail] about 1.5 years ago.<p>On one hand I miss SquirrelMail. On the other hand, I now understand the change [ageing tech]. There has been a learning curve along with A&#x2F;B testing, for example having the &quot;hardcore delete all emails in your primary inbox&quot; button right next to your &quot;refresh your primary inbox&quot; button... bad times which have been solved.

The headline is misleading by itself. SquirrelMail is still getting security fixes and is under active (but slow) development.

The article is pretty clickbaity. While the assertion that Squirrelmail has died is probably correct, the title makes it sound like it would be an explanation on what happened. Instead, it’s just describing the motivations on why cPanel is removing Squirrelmail, while trying to proclaim the death of Squirrelmail in the process.

There&#x27;s a headline from ten years ago...

Is cPanel itself still widely used?

I loved Horde, and then tried AfterLogic Webmail Pro. Surprising there&#x27;s no single robust mail offering

Sad day.