Table of Contents:
0. (QUICK!) Quick install guide
- 1. (PHP4) Configure your webserver to work with PHP4
+ 1. (PHP) Configure your webserver to work with PHP
2. (IMAP) Setting up IMAP (not covered)
3. (INSTALL) Obtaining and installing SquirrelMail
4. (RUN) Running SquirrelMail
Each of these steps is covered in detail below.
-- Install webserver and PHP4 (at least 4.1.0).
+- Install webserver and PHP (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).
- 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
+- Browse to http://example.com/yourwebmaillocation/src/configtest.php
to test your configuration for common errors.
-- Browse to http://www.example.com/yourwebmaillocation/ to log in.
+- Browse to http://example.com/yourwebmaillocation/ to log in.
-1. CONFIGURE YOUR WEBSERVER TO WORK WITH PHP4
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+1. CONFIGURE YOUR WEBSERVER TO WORK WITH PHP
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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.
+ the standard suffix .php for all PHP files.
- You can find PHP at http://www.php.net. See the documentation that
+ You can find PHP at http://php.net. See the documentation that
comes with PHP for instructions how to set it up.
The PHP IMAP extension is NOT necessary at all (but won't harm)!
--with-ldap
Required for LDAP addressbooks
-
+
--with-pear and --with-mysql
- For MySQL storage of preferences or addressbooks
+ 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)
Can be used by Eastern charset decoding functions
--enable-mbstring
- Required for Japanese translation. Optional for translations that
+ 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.
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SquirrelMail is constantly being improved. Therefore you should always
- get the newest version around. Look at http://www.squirrelmail.org
+ get the newest version around. Look at http://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
+ consider using the latest SVN version (with the latest and most
fashionable bugs).
a. Download SquirrelMail
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.
Point your browser at the URL at which SquirrelMail is installed. A
possible example of this is:
- http://www.yourdomain.com/squirrelmail
+ http://example.com/squirrelmail
It should be pretty straight forward to use. Some more documentation
might show up one day or another.
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
- 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.
If you can't do that, install your translations _before_ you use SquirrelMail.
+
7. PLUGINS
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- 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 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.
+ plugin must be setup correctly in order to detect administrative user.
See plugins/administrator/INSTALL
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