SquirrelMail Installation from Source

SquirrelMail


# wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/squirrelmail/files/stable/1.4.20/squirrelmail-1.4.20.tar.bz2/download



# tar xvjf /squirrelmail-1.4.20.tar.bz2/

# mv /squirrelmail-1.4.20 /varwww/html

#chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/ squirrelmail-1.4.20

# cd /var/www/html/ squirrelmail-1.4.20

# cd /var/www/html

# mv squirrelmail-1.4.20 webmail


# cd webmail

# mkdir -p /var/local/squirrelmail


# mv -i data/ /var/local/squirrelmail/

# chown -R apache.apache /var/local/squirrelmail/attach/ /var/local/squirrelmail/data/

# chown -R apache /var/local/squirrelmail/attach/ /var/local/squirrelmail/data/

# chgrp -R apache /var/local/squirrelmail/attach/ /var/local/squirrelmail/data/







Data directory inside the above location is to moved to some whare else, Because squirrel mail maintains uplodaed data in this directory.


# cd /var/www/html/ webmail/config

# ./conf.pl

Select the option 2
and enter like given below


1. Domain : ip address of the server

2. Invert Time : false

3. Sendmail or SMTP : Sendmail



A. Update IMAP Settings : localhost:143 (courier )

B. Change Sendmail Config : /usr/sbin/sendmail


Save and return to previous menu

From the main menu select the option 4 general options and change the following settings.


1. Data Directory : /var/www/html/squirrelmail-1.4.20/data/ // This is optional

2.Attachment Directory : $data_dir/ // This is optional

Save and return to previous menu


Add The virtualhost in apache.




# ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com

DocumentRoot /var/www/html/webmail

ServerName www.test.com

# ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log

# CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common





# service httpd restart
#/etc/init.d/imapd.rc restart

In the browser enter localhost/webmail