HOW TO CONFIGURE SQUIRREL-MAIL WITH RUSSIAN APACHE -------------------------------------------------- This text is available in Russian at http://www.mricon.com/SM/russian_apache.html ***** NOTE: Russian Apache will recode all attachments, even if they are binary, thus corrupting them. To fix this problem, refer to Russian Apache FAQ: http://apache.lexa.ru/faq.html#5 ***** This howto is for people who are using Russian Apache and who use charsets other than koi8-r for their source documents. If you _do_ use KOI8-R as default encoding for all your source documents, you don't need to do anything. Otherwise, here's a very simple way to make this work. The general idea is to tell Russian Apache that everything residing in the squirrel-mail directory is in koi8-r. This way all input submitted by users will be automagically converted by mod_charset from anything into koi8-r. Squirrel-Mail will then correctly stamp it with "Charset=koi8-r" and send off without any additional conversion. There are two equally efficient ways to do it: 1. THE HTTPD.CONF WAY. ----------------------- In your httpd.conf, add the following declaration for the server that handles the squirrel-mail: CharsetSourceEnc koi8-r Warning: If you use CharsetByExtension elsewhere, it will override the CharsetSourceEnc directive. In that case you will have to put this directive instead of the above: CharsetByExtension koi8-r .php It is advised to use the CharsetSourceEnc declaration instead of the other one. Use the CharsetByExtension only if the other fails. 2. THE .HTACCESS WAY (PREFERRED). ---------------------------------- Create a .htaccess file in your squirrel-mail directory. In it, simply put this line: CharsetSourceEnc koi8-r That's it. Note the warning about the ChatsetByExtension directive in the previous section. If you used CharsetByExtension declaration elsewhere and it's active for this server, then you will have to put this line in your .htaccess instead: CharsetByExtension koi8-r .php But again, this is only if the CharsetSourceEnc fails. I mark this method "Preferred" simply because you don't have to restart your server if you use .htaccess. However, if you've specified "AllowOverride None" in your Server config, then you will have to go with "the httpd.conf way". If you have any questions or problems, please address them to the squirrelmail-list@lists.sourceforge.net to have them promptly answered. ;) -- Konstantin Riabitsev (a.k.a. Graf) graf@relhum.org