New sonic.net webmail application

[shaynes]

Kind of odd I had to fill in my Display Name at first log in. It's been defined since I opened an account with Sonic.

[thulsa_doom]

Does that mean you are deleting *squirrelmail* too?

Yes. We intend to reduce our current offering of five webmail interfaces (six if you count the newly-announced one) to one.

[sgordon]

I have a ton of SquirrelMail folders with important content in them. Is SquirrelMail going away? WIll there be a way of migrating the content of those folders to folders in the new mail system?

[sgordon]

Never mind - I answered my own question. Looks like the folders migrate over pretty seamlessly.

[aman]

What a nice birthday present (I'm 77 today) by the hi-tech Sonic.net team who always keep screwing around with something that is working perfectly.

I'm not your only customer who *loves* the simplicity of Squirrelmail. Your new fancy-shmancy Webmail is overkill, has a complicated interface and options that only some geeks and teenage girls want, including HTML, multicolored mail in several font sizes, and cute little kitty emoticons.

For the past 15 years or so, I've logged on to Squirrelmail, saw what's on the mail-spool, deleted all spam and other garbage, then downloaded the new messages to my Netscape 4.77 (2001!) Inbox folder.

For replies, I clicked REPLY and added my comments, then clicked SEND. Bingo! All perfect.

Now, instead of a simple screen, I get a HUGE page with all kinds of irrelevant (for me) garbage. New messages don't show up. And the Address Book doesn't show up or work.

With that geeky new Webmail, all my past messages archived with Netscape for some 15 years are down the drain and useless. Thanks!

Dane and Scott, *please* keep Squirrelmail for us who want and need it. There were so far two others who have asked that you keep Squirrelmail.

(And, guys, no smart-ass comments that I should buy a new computer. I can't and won't, and I *love* this old Mac 8600/300 and ancient Netscape, because they do exactly what I want. If Squirrelmail was good enough for Jesus, dammit, it's good enough for me!)

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Reinhold {Rey} Amana

[[email protected]]

How do I get rid of the navigation pane? It seems to open stuff in greymail and I don't want to indicate that I've read greymail because that may cause more spam if the spammers find out I've opened their emails.

Also, I liked the way the old graymail and email showed the real email address where it came from next to the sender's name in the "From" column. As spammers send me stuff and somehow use names from my contact list, I need to know who really sent it. How do I get the new greymail and email to do that?

Then, do I just delete the greymail? No classifying by the old way with the red and green indicators?

Thank you.

[posthors]

So Microsoft has conditioned an entire industry to improve through complication. I agree with Rey!

The new email of course does not know that although my login is posthors, Sonic has hosted posthorse.com for years, and I have always been [email protected]. So how do I fix that?

Sorry to be inflexible, but I've seen this kind of pseudo improvement for years. And I was also in the email business!

- [email protected]

[aman]

[This message has not shown up in the Forum, so I'll try two different replies.]

@ John Fitzgerald

aman wrote: Does that mean you are deleting *squirrelmail* too?

Yes. We intend to reduce our current offering of five webmail
interfaces (six if you count the newly-announced one) to one.

John Fitzgerald
Sonic.net Technical Support
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Six is of course too many. But why can't you keep Squirrelmail and that new geeky one? That's two, and reasonable.

Reinhold {Rey} Aman
[NOT "Amana", as Forum posts show]]

[hexapuma]

Just to be clear, there are two squirrelmails, the older one still called squirrelmail at webmail.sonic.net and the newer one called nutsmail at webmail.sonic.net but called squirrelmail in its documentation.

Nutsmail is the only I one I ever use. Please, please, please don't remove it.

[gonative]

How do I simply open up and see an entire email? With this beta test i have to scroll through an email with just a few lines of window at the bottom of the screen. that isn't helpful at all. Can't I just open an email and look at it all?