Squirrelmail how to install

Security Notice Phishing campain Version 1. See EndOfLine. Known problems IIS on Workstation is limited to 10 connections. IIS 6. For example, you must have Perl installed if you want to use the installation script conf. And for many administrators, this will work fine! See the workarounds below. Installation Extract the SquirrelMail distribution to your htdocs directory.

Note that you can easily enable it only for a single legacy application that may require it while keeping the default off for the rest of your applications. When it is enabled, incompatibilities with some functionality may arise see our safe mode notes.

What IMAP server you can use depends on what the other components in your email system are and how they were installed and configured. The IMAP server needs to understand and be compatible with how messages are stored on your system. If you are running your email server on a Windows platform, you might have to enable an IMAP service that is bundled with your email server. If your email server does not support IMAP, you might have to find some other email server product.

The data directory is where SquirrelMail user preferences are stored - even when you have configured SquirrelMail to store user preferences in a database, some plugins might still need to use this directory. The attachment directory is used mainly for temporary storage of file uploads that will become email attachments. Both of these directories should be writable not readable by the web server and no one else except you. In a Unix or Linux environment, that means that they should be owned by the root user if possible otherwise whatever user you log in as , their group should be the same as that that the web server runs as e.

If you use PHP with safe mode enabled, check our safe mode notes which explain other possible limitations on these directories.

Only a small subset of the SquirrelMail source code needs to be directly accessible to users' browsers. The rest of the source code is used internally by SquirrelMail. Leaving the entire source tree open to outside access is not a problem or vulnerability, but some attackers have been known to snoop for old versions of SquirrelMail by trying to inspect things such as the ChangeLog file.

If you want to employ the maximum level of protection against snoops and would-be attackers, you can make use of the. This is a Perl script, so if you do not have Perl installed, please refer to our notes about how to configure SquirrelMail without shell access. You'll need to adjust the " example. Note that in SquirrelMail versions 1. Allow remote configtest " in the configuration utility.

If you do that, be sure to disable it again when you are finished. Again, you'll need to change " example. This chapter covers the installation of SquirrelMail and related packages on a generic Unix or Linux system. It does not cover the installation of the operating system or any other tools required for a fully functional email system.

Any version numbers used in these examples are specific to the time when this documentation was written. You should generally use the most up to date versions of all software involved.

That is, if there are newer versions of these packages available now, you'll probably want to substitute the newer numbers in the examples below. Make sure that you are not using old, obsolete or vulnerable software! If you are planning to offer webmail on a system with a large number of users or where users have large mailboxes, consider planning a better email system design and using different IMAP server software.

Following are some configuration settings that you may need to edit while configuring squirrelmail. Now, you need to modify the Apache configuration file, httpd. Add the following to httpd. PHP needs to be at least 4. Without the PHP mbstring extension the interface will remain usable, but some internationalization features and fixes won't be enabled.