SquirrelMail Installation Steps

Tested Under CentOS 6.3 64bit machine.

Before Instllation make sure following Packages must installed.

tmpwatch
php
php-mbstring
httpd  
hunspell  
hunspell-en  
perl  
rpmlib

After install above package time to donwload Squirremail latest PKG.

#wget ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/fedora/epel/6/x86_64/squirrelmail-1.4.22-3.el6.noarch.rpm


 Steps for  installation

[root@rkwebmail01 tmp]# rpm -ivh squirrelmail-1.4.22-3.el6.noarch.rpm
warning: squirrelmail-1.4.22-3.el6.noarch.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 0608b895: NOKEY
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:squirrelmail           ########################################### [100%]

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This will Installed under  /usr/share/squirrelmail.

Some dir for queuing & attachments found under /var/lib.

Configuration  files under /etc/squirrelmail

A config file for httpd is added to /etc/http/conf.d. with aliases /webmail to the SquirrelMail install directory.


Run Config Script

#/usr/share/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
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Main Menu --
1.  Organization Preferences
2.  Server Settings
3.  Folder Defaults
4.  General Options
5.  Themes
6.  Address Books
7.  Message of the Day (MOTD)
8.  Plugins
9.  Database
10. Languages

D.  Set pre-defined settings for specific IMAP servers

C   Turn color off
S   Save data
Q   Quit

Command >> 1

Just follow the insturction and set it accordigly.


 Main thing like:-  org name, Server type, Port number, Domain,Folder Pref.

After save all setting it messgae appear like this.


Command >> q


Exiting conf.pl.
You might want to test your configuration by browsing to
http://your-squirrelmail-location/src/configtest.php
Happy SquirrelMailing!


IF you want to do setting through Command/files then open Config.php from Configuration dir.

Below i just past my config.php for ref.  This work for me.


# cat config.php

/**
 * SquirrelMail Configuration File
 * Created using the configure script, conf.pl
 */

global $version;
$config_version = '1.4.0';
$config_use_color = 1;

$org_name      = "RK India";
$org_logo      = SM_PATH . 'images/DocLogo.png';
$org_logo_width  = '308';
$org_logo_height = '111';
$org_title     = "SquirrelMail $version";
$signout_page  = '';
$frame_top     = '_top';

$provider_uri     = 'http://www.squirrelmail.org/';

$provider_name     = 'SquirrelMail';

$motd = "";

$squirrelmail_default_language = 'en_US';
$default_charset       = 'iso-8859-1';
$lossy_encoding        = false;

$domain                 = '*****.com';
$imapServerAddress      = '10.221.****.154';
$imapPort               = 993;
$useSendmail            = false;
$smtpServerAddress      = '10.221.****.54';
$smtpPort               = 465;
$sendmail_path          = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
$sendmail_args          = '-i -t';
$pop_before_smtp        = false;
$pop_before_smtp_host   = '';
$imap_server_type       = 'cyrus';
$invert_time            = false;
$optional_delimiter     = 'detect';
$encode_header_key      = '';

$default_folder_prefix          = 'INBOX';
$trash_folder                   = 'INBOX/Trash';
$sent_folder                    = 'INBOX/Sent';
$draft_folder                   = 'INBOX/Drafts';
$default_move_to_trash          = true;
$default_move_to_sent           = true;
$default_save_as_draft          = true;
$show_prefix_option             = true;
$list_special_folders_first     = true;
$use_special_folder_color       = true;
$auto_expunge                   = true;
$default_sub_of_inbox           = false;
$show_contain_subfolders_option = true;
$default_unseen_notify          = 2;
$default_unseen_type            = 1;
$auto_create_special            = true;
$delete_folder                  = false;
$noselect_fix_enable            = false;