Squirrel works (or used to work) every time with no hitches and no unnecessary clutter and distractions. Just email. Get in, do your work and get out. I spend easily half or less the amount of time dealing with email when using squirrel than roundcube or whatever the newer sonic web email package they supply. It works(worked) on any platform with even 512MB of RAM and drawing 7 watts total power. Newer isn't always better, just a trade-off. I will have to consider Alpine but it only works on unix/linux/bsd systems unless you have 64-bit Windows with 5 billion gigs of RAM running linux subsystem -- not my preferred OS. World Internet Pause Day is coming on May 31. . .it should be a week or month. Time to get back to the basics. Sonic updated squirrel but haven't bothered to configure it properly. Once again they have referred me to the forums. A dead end to getting anything done properly. Sonic doesn't care about customers or the service. . .just the income.
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And maybe it's just nostalgia. Why do some people still drive cars that are 50 years old? They like them and are comfortable with them. I drive a 30+ year old car. I will never give it up and they will have to bury me with it because my hands will not be able to be removed from the steering wheel. I would be a 'smoker' from Waterworld -- never gonna give up my fossil fuels and internal combustion engine; it is probably the most important invention since the plow. It reminds them of different times and often better times. I don't believe the internet has made the world a better place. I will probably get a no-knock warrant at my home later today by the FBI/CIA/NSA. . .for speaking ill of the 'precious' internet. And it isn't my home since the government can come anytime and kick me out to put in a solar farm or restore a wetlands for the spotted salamander. And let's not get into asset forfeiture and jury nullification.
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I would love to hear your comments on technology and the future.
gu wrote:Honest question: Why are you still using Squirrel Mail? I'm seriously not trying to be an a-hole, I just want to understand.
In my opinion, there are far easier and more efficient ways to access email, including macOS's Mail, Sonic's other Webmail platform (webmail.sonic.net), and even Alpine through the Unix shell, so I'm just curious why anyone would still want to use Squirrel Mail.
Cheers,
-g-