squirrelmail-1.4.0-1.7.x (Web Mail)

8/Apri/2003 tested by Redhat 8.0

SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP4. It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no Javascript) for maximum compatibility across browsers. It has very few requirements and is very easy to configure and install. SquirrelMail has a all the functionality you would want from an email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation.

Install

Download squirrelmail-1.4.0-1.noarch.rpm from http://www.squirrelmail.org/

# rpm -ihv squirrelmail-1.4.0-1.noarch.rpm
warning: squirrelmail-1.4.0-1.noarch.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 1eb393
ea
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:squirrelmail           ########################################### [100%]

Open /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and add following lines

...
# Squirrel Mail
Alias /webmail/ "/usr/share/squirrelmail/"

<Directory "/usr/share/squirrelmail">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Open http://www.yourdomain.bt/webmail/

Change password plug-in

Download change_pass-2.0-1.4.x.tar.gz from http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugins.php

# cd /usr/share/squirrelmail/plugins/
# tar zxvf change_pass-2.0-1.4.x.tar.gz
# cd change_pass/poppassd-1.8.2/
# make install
# /usr/share/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl

choose option 8 and add the plugin. Save and exit

Create a file /etc/xinetd.d/poppassd

service poppassd
{
        disable = no
        socket_type             = stream
        protocol                = tcp
        wait                    = no
        user                    = root
        server                  = /usr/sbin/poppassd
}

Restart xinetd
```
# /etc/init.d/xinetd
```

Customize

Run Configuration Script (/usr/share/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl)

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Main Menu --
1.  Organization Preferences
2.  Server Settings
3.  Folder Defaults
4.  General Options
5.  Themes
6.  Address Books (LDAP)
7.  Message of the Day (MOTD)
8.  Plugins
9.  Database

D.  Set pre-defined settings for specific IMAP servers

C.  Turn color off
S   Save data
Q   Quit

Command >> 1

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Organization Preferences
1.  Organization Name      : Hoge Web Mail
2.  Organization Logo      : ../images/sm_logo.png
3.  Org. Logo Width/Height : (308/111)
4.  Organization Title     : Hoge Web Mail
5.  Signout Page           :
6.  Default Language       : en_US
7.  Top Frame              : _top
8.  Provider link          : http://www.hoge.com/
9.  Provider name          : Hoge Mail

R   Return to Main Menu
C.  Turn color off
S   Save data
Q   Quit

Command >> S

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