Hostmonster brakes Horde’s legs and didn’t tell me!
I had to set aside my tech life for a minor issue and discomfort. Within my web host I use web mail for my email access. Why? It’s an easy way for me to manage my email because I’m always on the go. Everyday I use a lot of different machines to play with my email. Web mail was the best solution for my needs. I said, “was,” my web host is called www.Hostmonster.com and I’ve been happy with their services. If you Google the company, you will discover a lot of unhappy comments.
I’m a little happy and unhappy about what recently occurred. It turns out the Hostmonster team has discovered a back-door/hole/leak/whatever you want to call it with the interface Horde uses, that would allow an intruder root access to the server! YEA, that is unsafe and I’m happy the Hostmonster team caught the issue and dis activated the program. The downside was, they kept me out of the room and wouldn’t let me in! I researched the issue of not being able to login and discovered I needed server side access. I can have this access if I request it through Hostmonster, but this will take a few days! I called their 24 hour tech support and was told about the issue I described above.
It turns out Hostmonster will probably not notify it’s users about when the patch has been installed or if they chose to implement a new e-mail application. I’m stuck with Squirrel mail or a 3rd party email application. I liked Horde damit! At least to keep my sanity with being able to use web mail, I can IMAP my accounts on my personal pc’s and use Squirrel until the Horde situation is resolved. I could install another 3rd party email client, but I have no much other junk going on I have no time for this. Any-who, I’m off to hunt for an email application while my web host keeps me in the dark!