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[squirrelmail.git] / INSTALL

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@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+Table of Contents:
+  1.  (PHP4)     Configure your webserver to work with PHP4
+  2.  (IMAP)     Setting up IMAP (not covered)
+  3.  (INSTALL)  Obtaining and installing SquirrelMail
+  4.  (RUN)      Running SquirrelMail
+  5.  (CHARSETS) Russian Charsets
+
+
+
+
 1. CONFIGURE YOUR WEBSERVER TO WORK WITH PHP4
 ---------------------------------------------
 
@@ -36,19 +46,16 @@ b. Changing php.ini
   can be done at configure time with the configuration directive
   --with-config-file-path=PATH.
 
-  Squirrelmail does not use cookies as of version 0.4.  Edit the 
-  php.ini file and change session.use_cookies to 0 (false).  Also be
-  sure to change the session.save_path to someplace that can only be
-  read and written to by the webserver.  session.save_path is the
+  Edit the php.ini file and make sure session.use_cookies is 1.  Also 
+  be sure to change the session.save_path to someplace that can only 
+  be read and written to by the webserver.  session.save_path is the
   location that PHP's session data will be written to.
 
-  SECURITY WARNING - SquirrelMail saves non plaintext passwords in 
-  PHP's session data to log on to the IMAP server.  If a user has 
-  access to write PHP scripts on your system and knows the location 
-  where PHP stores session data, he could get a listing of the 
-  sessions being used and then read a given session's data with his 
-  own PHP script.  Caution should be used when setting up permissions
-  and locations of php.ini and the session data.
+  SECURITY WARNING - If a user has access to write PHP scripts on your 
+  system and knows the location where PHP stores session data, he 
+  could get a listing of the sessions being used and then read a given 
+  session's data with his own PHP script.  Caution should be used when 
+  setting up permissions and locations of php.ini and the session data.
 
 c. Setting up .php files to use PHP4
 
@@ -127,9 +134,13 @@ b. Setting up directories
 
 c. Setting up SquirrelMail
 
-  All configuration directives you need to worry about in SquirrelMail
-  is in the file config/config.php in you SquirrelMail directory. This
-  file is pretty well commented.
+  There are two ways to configure Squirrelmail.  In the config/ directory,
+  there is a perl script called conf.pl that will aid you in the
+  configuration process.  This is the most recommended way of handling
+  the config.
+
+  You can also copy the config/config_default.php file to config.php
+  and edit that manually.
 
 4. RUNNING SQUIRRELMAIL
 -----------------------
@@ -137,3 +148,10 @@ c. Setting up SquirrelMail
   Point your browser at the URL at which SquirrelMail is installed. It
   should be pretty stright forward to use. Some more documentation
   might show up onbe day or another.
+
+
+5. RUSSIAN CHARSETS
+-------------------
+
+  For information on how to make SquirrelMail work with Russian
+  Apache, see the README.russian_apache in the doc/ subdirectory.