The PHP IMAP extension is NOT necessary 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)
+ --with-ldap
+ Required for LDAP addressbooks
- 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.
+ --with-pear and --with-mysql
+ For MySQL storage of preferences or addressbooks. You will need PHP
+ compiled with --with-pgsql option, if you want to use PostgreSQL instead
+ of MySQL. You will need PHP with appropriate database extension, if you
+ want to use any other database.
+
+ --with-openssl
+ Required for encrypted IMAP or SMTP connections (TLS)
+
+ --with-mcrypt
+ Can be used by SquirrelSpell plugin for encryption of personal
+ dictionaries
+
+ --with-iconv or --with-recode
+ Can be used by Eastern charset decoding functions
+
+ --enable-mbstring
+ Required for Japanese translation. Optional for translations that
+ use non-ISO-8859-1 charset
If you want your users to attach files to their mails, make sure
File Uploads in php.ini is set to On.
Point your browser at the URL at which SquirrelMail is installed. A
possible example of this is:
- http://www.yourdomain.com/squirrelmail
+ http://www.example.com/squirrelmail
It should be pretty straight forward to use. Some more documentation
might show up one day or another.
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For information on how to make SquirrelMail work with Russian
- Apache, see the README.russian_apache in the doc/ subdirectory.
+ Apache, see the russian_apache.txt in the doc/ subdirectory.
6. TRANSLATIONS
Locale packages can be downloaded from SquirrelMail SourceForge
project page.
- http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=311&package_id=110388
+ http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=311&package_id=110388
Each translation contains an install script that copies the required files
into their appropriate locations. If you can't run that script, you can
NOTE No.2: You might need to restart your webserver before using translations.
If you can't do that, install your translations _before_ you use SquirrelMail.
+
7. PLUGINS
----------
- The SquirrelMail package includes some standard plugins. These plugins can be
+ The SquirrelMail package includes some standard plugins. These plugins can be
enabled in the SquirrelMail configuration script.
Included plugins can use additional configuration files:
configuration is stored in plugins/squirrelspell/sqspell_config.php
Default configuration might not work on your server.
* administrator
- plugin must be setup correctly in order to detect administrative user.
+ plugin must be setup correctly in order to detect administrative user.
See plugins/administrator/INSTALL