Okay, next on the list for the Battle of the Domain Email Services is Sqirrelmail. This email system is sort of the industry standard for domain email. My advice: avoid it like the plague. See the screenshot to the right? You can see more at squirrelmail.org. Horrible isn’t it? It’s a usability nightmare. It may support tons of ancient browsers due t it’s lack of AJAX, but honestly, who would want to use this? It BADLY needs to be updated to work in the modern mail world.

Advantages:

• It supports nearly every ancient outdated browser on the planet.
• Nearly every webhost comes preinstalled with it.
• cPanel has integrated it into it’s setup so there’s zero configuration for you to do.

Disadvantages:

• No AJAX support.
• It’s definitely not very user-friendly.
• Could use more customization options.
• It seems to be stuck in the ’90s. There haven’t many interface updates.
• As soon as a user logs in they’re like “Aaagh! No! It’s Squirrelmail!“.
• Did I mention it’s not user friendly, it looks horrible, and you can’t navigate very well?

Clearly it can’t hope to compete with it’s competitors much longer unless it gets a major interface overhaul.