SnappyMail dead?

[necrevistonnezr]

SnappyMail has not have had any updates for over a year now - that‘s not good for a web facing app that holds a trove of sensitive information…
The lack of updates is due to health issues of the maintainer (https://github.com/the-djmaze/snappymail/issues/1911) - yet I wonder whether this app should be delisted?

[james]

Hello @necrevistonnezr
Thanks for informing us about this.
We will look into it.

[nebulon]

From the thread it looks like the solo maintainer might be recovering but more importantly at least one other company seems to be interested in helping out. So lets see how that goes first.

Overall though Roundcube might be the more maintained mail webclient for sure, if anyone is uncertain about the future of snappy.

[necrevistonnezr]

@nebulon said in SnappyMail dead?:

more importantly at least one other company seems to be interested in helping out. So lets see how that goes first.

Oh, that's a nice development! Their message almost exactly coincided with me opening this topic

[nichu42]

@nebulon Can you make a non-Cloudron-configured version of Roundcube? It's the only reason why I use Snappy. I need to integrate external mail servers.

[nebulon]

Since roundcube only allows for one email server configuration and we had no use-case so far to support other servers for it, Cloudron has no feature to optionally enable the email addon, which is used here for the roundcube package to configure itself.

We have to add this as a feature request for Cloudron itself then to avoid having to publish two flavors of roundcube.

[necrevistonnezr]

I‘m not sure it’s a good idea to „update“ this package - it could create the false impression that the code is up to date. The last relevant update is from October 2024 - that’s not good for a mail application that potentially holds your most important information.

[robi]

It doesn't hold, it's a front end.

[necrevistonnezr]

@robi Technically true. And yet the only door you need to overcome to access all your mails.