Required for Japanese translation. Optional for translations that
use non-ISO-8859-1 charset
+ It is highly advised to NOT turn on register_globals, as this can lead
+ to security holes. If you must use register_globals for some applications,
+ turn it on locally for only those directories, or turn it off for the
+ SquirrelMail folder.
If you want your users to attach files to their mails, make sure
File Uploads in php.ini is set to On.
directories outside of your web tree.
The data directory is used for storing user preferences, like
- signature, name and theme. When unpacking the sources this directory
- is created as data/ in your SquirrelMail directory. This directory
- must be writable by the webserver. If your webserver is running as
- the user "nobody" you can fix this by running:
+ signature, name and theme. You need to create this directory yourself.
+ Recommended location is under /var, for example:
+ /var/local/squirrelmail/data
+ This directory must be writable by the webserver. If your webserver is
+ running as the user "nobody" and group "nobody" you can fix this by
+ running:
- $ chown -R nobody data
- $ chgrp -R nobody data
+ $ chown -R nobody:nobody /var/local/squirrelmail/data
Keep in mind that with different installations, the web server could
typically run as userid/groupid of nobody/nobody, nobody/nogroup,
before they are sent. Since personal mail is stored in this
directory you might want to be a bit careful about how you set it
up. It should be owned by another user than the webserver is running
- as (root might be a good choice) and the webserver should have write
- and execute permissions on the directory, but should not have read
+ as (root might be a good choice) and the webserver should have directory
+ write and execute permissions, but should not have read
permissions. You could do this by running these commands (still
- granted that the webserver is running as nobody/nobody)
+ granted that the webserver is running as nobody/nobody):
- $ cd /var/some/place
- $ mkdir SomeDirectory
- $ chgrp -R nobody SomeDirectory
- $ chmod 730 SomeDirectory
+ $ cd /var/local/squirrelmail/
+ $ mkdir attach
+ $ chgrp -R nobody attach
+ $ chmod 730 attach
- If you trust all the users on you system not to read mail they are
- not supposed to read change the last line to chmod 777 SomeDirectory
- or simply use /tmp as you attachments directory.
+ If you trust all the users at your system not to read mail they are
+ not supposed to read, you can simply use /tmp as you attachments
+ directory.
If a user is aborting a mail but has uploaded some attachments to it
the files will be lying around in this directory forever if you do not
deletes everything in the attachment directory. Something similar
to the following will be good enough:
- $ cd /var/attach/directory
+ $ cd /var/local/squirrelmail/attach
$ rm -f *
However, this will delete attachments that are currently in use by people
attachment directory is the same as your data directory) might look like
this:
- $ rm `find /var/attach/directory -atime +2 | grep -v "\." | grep -v _`
+ $ rm `find /var/local/squirrelmail/attach -atime +2 | grep -v "\." | grep -v _`
Remember to be careful with whatever method you do use, and to test out
the command before it potentially wipes out everyone's preferences.
c. Setting up SquirrelMail
- There are two ways to configure SquirrelMail. In the config/ directory,
+ There are three 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 recommended way of handling
the config.
+ There's also a plugin called 'administrator' for the webinterface but you'll
+ have to be able to at least log in to SquirrelMail first.
+
You can also copy the config/config_default.php file to config/config.php
and edit that manually.
After you've created a configuration, you can use your webbrowser to
browse to http://your-squirrelmail-location/src/configtest.php.
- This will perform some basic checks on your config to make sure
+ This will perform some basic checks on your configuration to make sure
everything works like it should.
Each translation contains an install script that copies the required files
into their appropriate locations. If you can't run that script, you can
- extract the contents of translation packages into your SquirrelMail
+ extract the contents of a translation package into your SquirrelMail
directory.
NOTE No.1: *-src.tar.gz, *-src.tar.bz2 and *-src.zip archives do not contain
- compiled translation files. You will need to run the compilelocales script
+ compiled translation files. You will need to run the "compilelocales" script
in order to get all gettext binary translations.
NOTE No.2: You might need to restart your webserver before using translations.
configuration files are optional. See README files in plugin directories.
* squirrelspell
configuration is stored in plugins/squirrelspell/sqspell_config.php
- Default configuration might not work on your server.
+ The default configuration might not work at your server.
* administrator
plugin must be setup correctly in order to detect administrative user.
See plugins/administrator/INSTALL
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