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Table of Contents:
+ 0. (QUICK!) Quick install guide
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
+ 6. (LOCALES) Translations of SquirrelMail
+ 7. (PLUGINS) Installation of included plugins
+0. QUICK INSTALL GUIDE
+----------------------
+Each of these steps is covered in detail below.
-1. CONFIGURE YOUR WEBSERVER TO WORK WITH PHP4
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-
- If your webserver does not already have PHP4 you must configure it
- to work with PHP4. SquirrelMail uses the standard suffix .php for
- all PHP4 files. This is a quick and dirty guide to installing PHP4
- to run as CGI under Apache. How you end up doing this is up to you
- (your mileage may vary).
-
- You will need at least PHP v4.0.6. If you need to upgrade please go
- ahead and install it now.
-
-a. Obtaining and compiling PHP4
-
- SquirrelMail has not been tested for use with PHP 4.3.x. The
- development team does not recommend the use of this software with
- PHP 4.3.x until further testing can be done.
-
- Point your favorite webserver at http://www.php.net/version4/ and
- download the source. Untar (tar xvfz filename-you-downloaded.tgz)
- the source, cd into the directory and run configure. To make PHP4
- work with SquirrelMail a commandline like this should do:
-
- ./configure --enable-track-vars --enable-force-cgi-redirect --with-gettext
-
- If you have a database like MySQL you might want to add something
- like --with-mysql to get database functionality.
-
- If you're going to use LDAP in the addressbook, you must compile PHP4
- with --with-ldap (see the PHP4 docs for more information).
-
- Run make to build the binary file. This will generate a binary file
- called "php". Move this file into a CGI-directory.
-
- You might also want to read the INSTALL file in the PHP-distribution
- :-)
-
-b. Changing php.ini
-
- PHP defaults to look for php.ini (PHP's configuration file) in
- /usr/local/lib. However, for security reasons, it is suggested
- that the location of this file is changed to someplace else. This
- can be done at configure time with the configuration directive
- --with-config-file-path=PATH.
+- Install webserver and PHP4 (at least 4.1.0).
+- Install IMAP server (see docs of that server).
+- Unpack the SquirrelMail package in a web-accessible location.
+- Select a data-dir and attachment dir, outside the webtree (e.g. in /var).
+ The data-dir (for user prefs) should be owned by the user the webserver
+ runs as (e.g. www-data). The attachment dir (for uploading files as
+ attachments) should be file mode 0730 and in the same group as the
+ webserver.
+- Run config/conf.pl from the command line. Use the D option to load
+ predefined options for specific IMAP servers, and edit at least the
+ Server Settings and General Options (datadir).
+- Browse to http://www.example.com/yourwebmaillocation/src/configtest.php
+ to test your configuration for common errors.
+- Browse to http://www.example.com/yourwebmaillocation/ to log in.
- 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 - 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.
+1. CONFIGURE YOUR WEBSERVER TO WORK WITH PHP4
+---------------------------------------------
- FILE UPLOADS - Note that sending attachments will not work if your
- "file_uploads" setting is "Off". Squirrelmail requires that setting
- enabled in order to be able to attach files.
+ If your webserver does not already have PHP you must configure it
+ to work with PHP. You need at least PHP v4.1.0. SquirrelMail uses
+ the standard suffix .php for all PHP4 files.
-c. Setting up .php files to use PHP4
+ You can find PHP at http://www.php.net. See the documentation that
+ comes with PHP for instructions how to set it up.
- You need to create a .htaccess file in you SquirrelMail directory
- that looks something like this:
+ The PHP IMAP extension is NOT necessary at all (but won't harm)!
+ Below is a list of optional PHP extensions:
- AddType application/php4script .php
- Action application/php4script /cgi-bin/php
+ --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)
- You could also add these lines to your Apache configuration file.
+ 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.
-d. Running into trouble
+ If you want your users to attach files to their mails, make sure
+ File Uploads in php.ini is set to On.
- Setting up Apache with PHP4 can be a non-trivial task. Read the PHP4
- and Apache documentation carefully if you run into trouble. If you
- have an experienced system administrator around ask her/him to help
- you.
2. SETTING UP IMAP
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- This is not covered here :-/
+ This depends a lot on the server your choose. See the documentation
+ that comes with your server.
+
+ If you're concerned about people accessing it directly, you can
+ limit access to only the IP of the webserver.
+
3. OBTAINING AND INSTALLING SQUIRRELMAIL
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- SquirrelMail is still under development. Therefore you should always
- get the newest version around. Look at
- http://www.squirrelmail.org/index.php3?page=5 to see what it
- is. If you want to be bleeding edge you might want to consider using
- the latest CVS version (with the latest and most fashionable of
- bugs).
+ SquirrelMail is constantly being improved. Therefore you should always
+ get the newest version around. Look at http://www.squirrelmail.org
+ to see what it is. If you want to be bleeding edge you might want to
+ consider using the latest CVS version (with the latest and most
+ fashionable bugs).
a. Download SquirrelMail
$ chgrp -R nobody data
Keep in mind that with different installations, the web server could
- typically run as userid/groupid of nobody/nobody, nobody/nogroup,
- apache/apache or www-data/www-data. The best way to find out is to read
+ typically run as userid/groupid of nobody/nobody, nobody/nogroup,
+ apache/apache or www-data/www-data. The best way to find out is to read
the web server's configuration file.
There also needs to be a directory where attachments are stored
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 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
+ or 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
remove them. To fix this, it is recommended to create a cron job that
deletes everything in the attachment directory. Something similar
to the following will be good enough:
$ cd /var/attach/directory
$ rm -f *
-
+
However, this will delete attachments that are currently in use by people
sending email when the cron job runs. You can either (1) make sure that
the cron job runs at an obscure hour and hope that nobody gets upset, or
(2) you can run a modified version of the commands above. Check out the
man pages for other commands such as 'find' or 'tmpreaper'.
-
+
One sample script you could set up that would erase all attachments, but
wouldn't erase preferences, address books, or the like (just in case your
- attachment directory is the same as your data directory) might look like
+ attachment directory is the same as your data directory) might look like
this:
-
+
$ rm `find /var/attach/directory -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 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 recommended way of handling
the config.
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
+ everything works like it should.
+
+
4. RUNNING SQUIRRELMAIL
-----------------------
Point your browser at the URL at which SquirrelMail is installed. A
- possible example of this is:
+ possible example of this is:
http://www.yourdomain.com/squirrelmail
-
+
It should be pretty straight forward to use. Some more documentation
might show up one day or another.
-------------------
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
+---------------
+
+ In order to use translated versions of SquirrelMail, you need
+ to download and install locale packages that contain translations
+ that you want to use with SquirrelMail.
+
+ Locale packages can be downloaded from SquirrelMail SourceForge
+ project page.
+
+ 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
+ extract the contents of translation packages 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
+ in order to get all gettext binary translations.
+
+ 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
+ enabled in the SquirrelMail configuration script.
+
+ Included plugins can use additional configuration files:
+ * change_password
+ configuration file is required. Without it plugin defaults to invalid
+ backend. See plugins/change_password/README
+ * filters, fortune, mail_fetch, newmail, translate
+ 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.
+ * administrator
+ plugin must be setup correctly in order to detect administrative user.
+ See plugins/administrator/INSTALL
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