X-Git-Url: https://vcs.fsf.org/?p=squirrelmail.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=d5c6d86dc89432d57caac88965e31977f87c189a;hp=b15089c02c749469c82368c240ff81a5a08d8024;hb=39d3ec898bf4da0f0a61fbca289dccde801c9473;hpb=d68a3926944cc2ecf743b0e9389fa5f463445910 diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index b15089c0..d5c6d86d 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ Table of Contents: 5. (CHARSETS) Russian Charsets - - 1. CONFIGURE YOUR WEBSERVER TO WORK WITH PHP4 --------------------------------------------- @@ -20,9 +18,15 @@ Table of Contents: 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 extensively tested for use with PHP 4.3.x. + See the ReleaseNotes file. - Point your favorite webserver at http://www.php.net/version4/ and + Point your favorite web browser at http://www.php.net/downloads.php/ 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: @@ -60,6 +64,10 @@ b. Changing php.ini 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. + 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. + c. Setting up .php files to use PHP4 You need to create a .htaccess file in you SquirrelMail directory @@ -85,12 +93,11 @@ d. Running into trouble 3. OBTAINING AND INSTALLING SQUIRRELMAIL ---------------------------------------- - 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 of bugs). a. Download SquirrelMail @@ -107,13 +114,18 @@ b. Setting up directories 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 you SquirrelMail directory. 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: + the user "nobody" you can fix this by running: + + $ chown -R nobody data + $ 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 + the web server's configuration file. - chown -R nobody data - chgrp -R nobody data - There also needs to be a directory where attachments are stored 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 @@ -123,26 +135,48 @@ b. Setting up directories permissions. You could do this by running these commands (still granted that the webserver is running as nobody/nobody) - cd /var/some/place - mkdir SomeDirectory - chgrp -R nobody SomeDirectory - chmod 730 SomeDirectory + $ cd /var/some/place + $ mkdir SomeDirectory + $ chgrp -R nobody SomeDirectory + $ chmod 730 SomeDirectory 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 som attachments to it the files - will be lying around in this directory forever if you do not remove - them. + 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 + 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 is a perl script called conf.pl that will aid you in the - configuration process. This is the most recommended way of handling + configuration process. This is the recommended way of handling the config. - You can also copy the config/config_default.php file to config.php + You can also copy the config/config_default.php file to config/config.php and edit that manually. 4. RUNNING SQUIRRELMAIL @@ -152,7 +186,7 @@ c. Setting up SquirrelMail possible example of this is: http://www.yourdomain.com/squirrelmail - It should be pretty stright forward to use. Some more documentation + It should be pretty straight forward to use. Some more documentation might show up one day or another.