SQUIRRELMAIL IMSA UPDATE

After SquirrelMail is disabled, SquirrelMail users will be sent to our RoundCube webmail client instead. On July 31st, SquirrelMail will no longer be available through our WebMail interface. However, if a plain text version is not available, then the email will be displayed as raw HTML code. Instead, if a plain text version is available, it will display them as plain text emails. Once this feature is disabled, SquirrelMail will no longer be able to display HTML emails as they are designed to be. So, in order to protect your email from potential harm, we have chosen to disable SquirrelMail's HTML display feature in early July.

This security flaw was one of the main reasons that pair Networks chose to cease using SquirrelMail. Disabling HTML Display - Early JulyĪ security flaw was discovered in SquirrelMail's HTML email display feature. There are two phases to the SquirrelMail deprecation. The only change will be a different interface. RoundCube Webmail Client Interfaceīecause we are removing SquirrelMail from our webmail options, customers using SquirrelMail will be moved to the RoundCube webmail client, which is now our default webmail client.ĭon't worry! Moving from SquirrelMail to RoundCube will not affect your email. This change merely affects the webmail client that the mailbox uses to display the email.

SQUIRRELMAIL IMSA UPDATE

Your mailboxes are secure and we routinely update their setup so that they are patched against new threats. We want to stress this does not affect your email mailbox or the server your mailbox is hosted on. Due to this and a recent security flaw in SquirrelMail's HTML display, we have decided to finally remove SquirrelMail as a webmail option. Because it has been so long since SquirrelMail has had a new release, we cannot depend on it to be secure. The last stable SquirrelMail release was in July 2011, nearly 8 years ago. However, SquirrelMail has not been our default or preferred webmail interface for a number of years. Back when pair Networks was a fledgling company, SquirrelMail was the default webmail client for our webmail solutions.

This sudden move to deprecate SquirrelMail was a long time in coming. On July 31st, we will remove access to SquirrelMail completely. The SquirrelMail webmail client interface is being deprecated. While you can do all these things from SquirrelMail, you can easily accomplish the same things in another webmail client, like RoundCube. You can send email, delete email, create folders, etc. Instead, SquirrelMail is used to display and manage your mailbox. It is not the same as your mailbox that was created on a Pair Networks hosting account. Where did you get the incoming mail server settings from? You should be able to get the outgoing mail server settings from the same location.SquirrelMail is a webmail client that can be used for webmail. The same applies when accessing SquirrelMail on your computer. It sounds like the account will be an IMAP account, which is good since you can access the account with an email client on your computer also keeping all server stored mailboxes for the account synchronized between the email client used on your computer - if you decide to do so, and with the iPhone's Mail client. Unless you provide the name of your college, and someone here happens to attend the same college, or is familiar with accessing an email account provided by your college with an email client, you won't get the answer here. There's no point in contacting the SquirrelMail project team - the don't know the which settings you need.+īased on this, your college has their own incoming and outgoing mail server settings for accessing your email account with an email client such as with the iPhone's Mail client. SquirrelMail is actually a php-based mail server, supporting IMAP and SMTP protocols. If you're not quite sure, try hunting around the website you signed up on for support pages, or if you are at a college, or university, speak to a teacher. +The best people to ask for the IMAP server settings your Outlook client needs, are those with whom you are getting your mail services from. They use Outlook when referring to an email client, but the same applies to the iPhone's Mail client. I copied the following from SquirrelMail's website.

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