![]() Squirrelmail is a very popular very fast webmail client with Imap, Pop and Smtp support. While very popular it’s also very what’s the word…. Ugly yes that’s it, but considering the lightweight and speed that’s perfectly acceptable. Squirrelmail also has a huge load of ready to run plugin’s making your life easier. Now this is one of the few applications I don’t install from ports but from source. Squirrelmail works right out the tar ball with only a few configurations that needs to be changed. So basically all you need to do is unpack the thing, put it somewhere nice and then link to it from where ever you want to access it and you’re done.Īs of this writing the newest version of squirrelmail is 1.4.22 It’s been that for ages, wonder if there ever will be a newer version. Mv squirrelmail-webmail-1.4.22 /usr/local/with the new version throughout this guide.īefore we start cd to a temporary directory /tmp springs to mind. chown -R Now we need to set the right permissions on the “data” directory inside squirrelmail. Next we need to modify the configuration files that came with squirrelmail. This is a perl script that will ask you some questions. In the menu we need to change a few things. The path to sendmail below assumes you run Qmail if not change the path accordingly. In the menu press B “/usr/sbin/sendmail” then press 4 and change it to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail In the menu press 3 “Sendmail Or SMTP” and then press 1 for Sendmail In the menu press 2 “Server Settings” and replace with your IP number. Press “S” to save and then “Q” to quit squirrelmail is now configured and ready to run.Īll you need to do now is a symlink to the “squirrel” directory from where you want to access it. Let’s say you have a web page in /usr/local/then all you have to do is create a link inside the foo directory that points to squirrel like shown below. This will give you access to squirrelmail from For all others sites just repeat the process. (`aspell -a -lang=en_US -encoding=utf-8 -H -rem-sgml-check=alt &1`) "System error: Aspell program execution failed" I blamed Squirrelmail, but it was really my fault. Turned out that I had never used the spell checker before, and when I tried it for the first time Squirrel was complaining because had forgotten to install it. SQUIRRELMAIL SERVER CONFIGURATION STEP BY STEP INSTALL.SQUIRRELMAIL SERVER CONFIGURATION STEP BY STEP HOW TO.htaccess file in the /var/file: Īnd it just works. In order to allow access as I need to bung a. We need to change the settings in Folder Defaults to make it compatible with IMAPdir and Outlook Express: Trash Folder The defaults are generally OK, but there’s a couple of things that need to be changed: # config/ ![]() # chown -R www-data.www-data data Configuring SquirrelMail ![]() # cp -a /usr/local/src/squirrelmail-1.4.2/* webmail/ The installation instructions aren’t great. Grab the download from here, and then follow the instructions in the INSTALL file. Once Apache and PHP are installed correctly, we can install SquirrelMail. # LoadModule roaming_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_roaming.so # And for PHP 4.x, use: **LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so** ![]() You’ll need to go and tweak the /etc/apache/nf file: # LoadModule eaccess_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_eaccess.so Note that, by default, the Debian packages for php4 on woody don’t correctly enable it. SquirrelMail also has a bunch of other requirements: # apt-get install apache php4 php4-pear The first thing that I need to do is install Apache (since this is my test box and it’s not been installed yet). In this video, I have described Linux Mail Server Configuration Step by Step, after watching this video, you will be able to run a fully-functional mail server by Installing postfix, dovecot and SquirrelMail. I’m going to take a look at SquirrelMail. One requirement I listed earlier is webmail, so that I can access my email from anywhere.
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