Installing Squirrelmail Plugins & Skins

[charlesincharge]

I am a new user with your hosting service as well as with squirrelmail. I am wondering how I can extend the capabilities of squirrelmail by installing plugins from their site. Additionally, I have come across some skins for the program and am wondering how I can install them. Any help would be appreciated.

[TCH-Don]

First

Welcome to the Family

 

and your new home!

 

I found this post about Squirrelmail Plugin's

that may help

 

We really are like family here.

So if you need anything,

just ask your new family!

We love to help

[stevesh]

I'd also like to suggest TCH consider upgrading to the latest version of SquirrelMail. Address Import would be nice. Thanks.

 

 

Steve

[TCH-Thomas]

You can install it yourself according to the linked post in Dons reply above.

[charlesincharge]

thanks everyone for replying. i guess my options are to install it myself. i do agree that adding the address book plugin would be a VERY welcome though. Thumbs Up

[TCH-Thomas]

(Blue or red guys correct me if im wrong)

 

The problem is that squirrelmail, horde and all of them are from cpanel by cpanel.net so TCH itself has very little control of whats in cpanel.

Edited June 18, 2004 by Jikrantz

[TCH-Don]

You are correct Thomas

[Alan]

Uh,

 

Also, it is not TCH who update the stuff in cPanel.

 

cPanel.net has to release a update to their cPanels before TCH can do anything. and I think we are on the latest cPanel.

[jandafields]

I use my own installation of SquirrelMail, so I can customize it any way I want. It is very easy to do. This also lets you get around the very annoying "Unsafe Images" problem.

[webmedic]

Yes I agree squirellmail is a very good solution and the best I have found. The number of features it has and the ammount of third party plugins is huge.

 

Thanks for the info I will look into setting up my own also.

 

One thing do you know if these servers support imap or is it pop only?

[TCH-Rob]

IMAP is supported

[webmedic]

thanks. That makes it even nicer to use webmail.

 

do you know if it offers an encrypted channel or is it plain text only?

[projectandrew]

If you did want to upgrade cPanel's SquirrelMail server wide, and use plugins, I've written this HOW-TO:

 

HOW-TO: Upgrade to SquirrelMail 1.4.3a on cPanel

http://unofficial-support.com/node/view/49

[jandafields]

If you did want to upgrade cPanel's SquirrelMail server wide, and use plugins, I've written this HOW-TO:

 

HOW-TO: Upgrade to SquirrelMail 1.4.3a on cPanel

http://unofficial-support.com/node/view/49

That's probably not feasible. I bet the next upgrade of cPanel would over right it anyway. Installing Squirell Mail in your own account is fairly simple though.

[projectandrew]

My HOW-TO gets around that problem, so cPanel won't overwrite your new version.

[jandafields]

I still don't think it would happen. There's a lot of servers at TCH. Plus, there would still be no way to make everyone happy concerning plugins. As long as things are working without issues, why risk something going wrong on a server-wide update on something as important as email? One little typo in the config, and then many unhappy customers...

 

Also, sqmail didn't make most of those plugins. They are contributions from users, so they could contain insecure code, putting us all at risk. If my own install of sqmail has poorly written plugins, there would be a big risk for me, but not so big for anyone else. And if mine does cause a problem for others, my account is suspended, and everyone else goes on happily.