Was GoDaddy using SquirrelMail Circa 2006

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Thanks for taking a look. Some time in the distant future I have the 
goal of loading ISPConfig into a VM on my local net to see if I like it. 
I'm thinking it might be educational in that I can examine the code and 
database.


On 2025-01-12 13:53, Ryan Petris wrote:
> I've never really used ISPconfig however just looking at the website
> it looks like SquirrelMail is an external plugin for it, not something
> that's built-in. Even the link on the add-ons page is broken for it.
> 
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2025, at 1:39 PM, techlists at phpcoderusa.com wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Ryan,
>> 
>> I wonder why ISPConfig is using SquirrelMail?  I recall being very
>> fond
>> 
>> of SquirrelMail .  Not sure why.  I need to do some discovery so I
>> can
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>> figure out why.
>> 
>> Thanks!!
>> 
>> Keith
>> 
>> < On 2025-01-12 13:31, Ryan Petris wrote:
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>>> It looks like it got updated in 2021 for PHP 8 support, but it's a
>> 
>>> "snapshot" release; the latest stable is still from 2011, which is
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>>> still super old especially with web software.
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>>> 
>> 
>>> There are plenty of other newer, better, and maintained webmail
>> 
>>> software, even if you're looking for something you can just chuck
>> onto
>> 
>>> a PHP host. Roundcube [1], for instance, is a very capable modern
>> 
>>> webmail client that just needs to be plopped onto a PHP host, with
>> the
>> 
>>> latest release being in September, 4 months ago.
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>>> 
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>>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2025, at 1:01 PM, techlists at phpcoderusa.com wrote:
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>>> 
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>>>> On 2025-01-12 07:50, Ryan Petris wrote:
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>>>> 
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>>>>> The last stable release of SquirrelMail was July 12, 2011
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>>>> according to
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>>>> 
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>>>>> wikipedia, which was nearly 14 years ago. I hope you're not
>> still
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>>>> 
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>>>>> using it or considering using it.
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>>>>> 
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>>>> 
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>>>> Ryan,
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>>>> 
>> 
>>>> Interesting point.  ChatGPT say it is no longer supported.  The
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>>>> website
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>>>> 
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>>>> shows something is taking place.  Says it is compatible with PHP
>> 
>>>> 8.3....
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>>>> 
>> 
>>>> ISPConfig is using it.
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>>>> 
>> 
>>>> I think this is reason to dig a bit deeper.
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>>>> 
>> 
>>>> Thanks!!
>> 
>>>> 
>> 
>>>> Keith
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>>>> 
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>>>>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2025, at 7:45 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
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>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> 
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>>>>>> Hi,
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>>>> 
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>>>>>> 
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>>>> 
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>>>>>> Around 2006 or 2007 I had a business website hosted at GoDaddy.
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>>>> I
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>>>> 
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>>>>>> used
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>>>>>> 
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>>>> 
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>>>>>> the cheapest web hosting. I think it was around $3.00/mo.  I
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>>>> 
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>>>>>> exclusively
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>>>> 
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>>>>>> 
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>>>> 
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>>>>>> used the GoDaddy webmail which I thought was really good.
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>>>> 
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>>>>>> AI tells me GoDaddy was using SquirrelMail at the time,  I
>> think
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>>>> it
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>>>> 
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>>>>>> was
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>>>>>> 
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>>>> 
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>>>>>> highly modified by GoDaddy.
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>>>> 
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>>>>>> Does anyone know if GoDaddy was using SquirrelMail 18-20 years
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>>>> ago?
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>>>>>> Thanks!!
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>>>> 
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>>>> 
>> 
>>>>>> Keith
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>>> Links:
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