SquirrelMail

[iGuest 3]

Hello, Does anyone know how to set up squirrelmail. I dont understand how to do it on the readme, boo hoo.I've downloaded squirrelmail and uploaded it to my account - /public_html/squirrelmailI'm all ears for ideas

[iGuest 3]

whats squrril mail i have nebver heard of it oO

[iGuest 3]

I have not heard of it either.

[iGuest 3]

i have tried squirellmail installation,

 

well read the installation notes and do as it says

here i am pasting them if u dont have

 

Installing SquirrelMail

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Table of Contents:

0. (QUICK!) Quick install guide

1. (PHP4) Configure your webserver to work with PHP4

2. (IMAP) Setting up IMAP (not covered)

3. (INSTALL) Obtaining and installing SquirrelMail

4. (RUN) Running SquirrelMail

5. (CHARSETS) Russian Charsets

 

 

0. QUICK INSTALL GUIDE

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Each of these steps is covered in detail below.

 

- Install webserver and PHP4 (at least 4.0.6).

- Install IMAP server (see docs of that server).

- Unpack the SquirrelMail package in a web-accessible location.

- Select a data-dir and attachment dir, outside the webtree (e.g. in /var).

The data-dir (for user prefs) should be owned by the user the webserver

runs as (eg www-data). The attachment dir (for uploading files as

attachments) should be file mode 0730 and in the same group as the

webserver.

- Run config/conf.pl from the command line. Use the D option to load

predefined options for specific IMAP servers, and edit at least the

Server Settings and General Options (datadir).

- Browse to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ to log in.

 

 

1. CONFIGURE YOUR WEBSERVER TO WORK WITH PHP4

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If your webserver does not already have PHP you must configure it

to work with PHP. You need at least PHP v4.0.6. SquirrelMail uses

the standard suffix .php for all PHP4 files.

 

You can find PHP at http://php.net/. See the documentation that

comes with PHP for instructions how to set it up.

 

The PHP IMAP extension is NOT neccessary at all (but won't harm)!

Below is a list of optional PHP extensions:

 

--with-ldap Required for LDAP addressbooks

--with-mhash Will improve charset decoding if present

--with-mysql For MySQL storage of preferences or addressbooks

--with-openssl When you want to use encrypted IMAP connections (TLS)

 

If you're going to use LDAP in the addressbook, you must compile PHP

with the LDAP extension. Include the MHASH extension to improve

performance in character set decoding.

 

If you want your users to attach files to their mails, make sure

File Uploads in php.ini is set to On.

 

 

2. SETTING UP IMAP

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This depends a lot on the server your choose. See the documentation

that comes with your server.

 

If you're concerned about people accessing it directly, you can

limit access to only the IP of the webserver.

 

 

3. OBTAINING AND INSTALLING SQUIRRELMAIL

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SquirrelMail is constantly being improved. Therefore you should always

get the newest version around. Look at http://www.squirrelmail.org/

to see what it is. If you want to be bleeding edge you might want to

consider using the latest CVS version (with the latest and most

fashionable bugs).

 

a. Download SquirrelMail

 

Get SquirrelMail from the address above if you do not have it or are

uncertain if you have the newest version. Untar (again tar xvfz

filename.tgz) SquirrelMail in a directory that is readable for your

webserver.

 

b. Setting up directories

 

SquirrelMail uses two directories to store user configuration and

attachments that are about to be sent. You might want to have these

directories outside of your web tree.

 

The data directory is used for storing user preferences, like

signature, name and theme. When unpacking the sources this directory

is created as data/ in your SquirrelMail directory. This directory

must be writable by the webserver. If your webserver is running as

the user "nobody" you can fix this by running:

 

$ chown -R nobody data

$ chgrp -R nobody data

 

Keep in mind that with different installations, the web server could

typically run as userid/groupid of nobody/nobody, nobody/nogroup,

apache/apache or www-data/www-data. The best way to find out is to read

the web server's configuration file.

 

There also needs to be a directory where attachments are stored

before they are sent. Since personal mail is stored in this

directory you might want to be a bit careful about how you set it

up. It should be owned by another user than the webserver is running

as (root might be a good choice) and the webserver should have write

and execute permissions on the directory, but should not have read

permissions. You could do this by running these commands (still

granted that the webserver is running as nobody/nobody)

 

$ cd /var/some/place

$ mkdir SomeDirectory

$ chgrp -R nobody SomeDirectory

$ chmod 730 SomeDirectory

 

If you trust all the users on you system not to read mail they are

not supposed to read change the last line to chmod 777 SomeDirectory

or simply use /tmp as you attachments directory.

 

If a user is aborting a mail but has uploaded some attachments to it

the files will be lying around in this directory forever if you do not

remove them. To fix this, it is recommended to create a cron job that

deletes everything in the attachment directory. Something similar

to the following will be good enough:

 

$ cd /var/attach/directory

$ rm -f *

 

However, this will delete attachments that are currently in use by people

sending email when the cron job runs. You can either (1) make sure that

the cron job runs at an obscure hour and hope that nobody gets upset, or

(2) you can run a modified version of the commands above. Check out the

man pages for other commands such as 'find' or 'tmpreaper'.

 

One sample script you could set up that would erase all attachments, but

wouldn't erase preferences, address books, or the like (just in case your

attachment directory is the same as your data directory) might look like

this:

 

$ rm `find /var/attach/directory -atime +2 | grep -v "." | grep -v _`

 

Remember to be careful with whatever method you do use, and to test out

the command before it potentially wipes out everyone's preferences.

 

c. Setting up SquirrelMail

 

There are two ways to configure SquirrelMail. In the config/ directory,

there is a perl script called conf.pl that will aid you in the

configuration process. This is the recommended way of handling

the config.

 

You can also copy the config/config_default.php file to config/config.php

and edit that manually.

 

 

4. RUNNING SQUIRRELMAIL

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Point your browser at the URL at which SquirrelMail is installed. A

possible example of this is:

http://www.yourdomain.com/squirrelmail

 

It should be pretty straight forward to use. Some more documentation

might show up one day or another.

 

 

5. RUSSIAN CHARSETS

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For information on how to make SquirrelMail work with Russian

Apache, see the README.russian_apache in the doc/ subdirectory.

[iGuest 3]

Hello, Does anyone know how to set up squirrelmail. I dont understand how to do it on the readme, boo hoo.
I've downloaded squirrelmail and uploaded it to my account - /public_html/squirrelmail

I'm all ears for ideas

I don't understand your problem. Why do you need to install it, you
already have it? In your cpanel, click "webmail" and you'll find 3
services - "Neomail", "Horde" and "Squirrelmail".

[iGuest 3]

I find it very good 8)

[iGuest 3]

Is it just like regular email or something?

[iGuest 3]

yes,its like regular email,but its ur own emailsystemu can have ur own users ,well and u can build ur own interface around it as its opensourcewat u must do is just show ur work back to squirrelmail team

[iGuest 3]

thats kinda kewlso ya can have ppl register under your host with email?or just yourself?

[iGuest 3]

yes u can have ppl register with ur siteu can set the mailbox sizes and all.

[iGuest 3]

Wow. How very unique.

[iGuest 3]

hey u cant say its unique,there ane many such systems,neomail, openwebmail and many more

[iGuest 3]

Well I've never heard of anything like this before.So as far as I know...

[iGuest 3]

My unit had this one. But i don't think it a good one.

Hello, Does anyone know how to set up squirrelmail. I dont understand how to do it on the readme, boo hoo.
I've downloaded squirrelmail and uploaded it to my account - /public_html/squirrelmail

I'm all ears for ideas