WebMail system - SquirrelMail

    Install SquirrelMail to build web-based mail transfer system like yahoo mail or hotmail. SMTP/IMAP server is needed to run in your LAN.
[1]     Install SquirrelMail
[root@www ~]#yum -y install squirrelmail

[root@www ~]#cd /usr/share/squirrelmail/plugins/

[root@www plugins]#wget http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugins/compatibility-2.0.16-1.0.tar.gz

[root@www plugins]#wget http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugins/empty_trash-1.4-1.2.2.tar.gz

[root@www plugins]#wget http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugins/secure_login-1.4-1.2.8.tar.gz

[root@www plugins]#tar zxvf compatibility-2.0.16-1.0.tar.gz

[root@www plugins]#tar zxvf empty_trash-1.4-1.2.2.tar.gz

[root@www plugins]#tar zxvf secure_login-1.4-1.2.8.tar.gz

[root@www plugins]#rm -f *.tar.gz

[root@www plugins]#cd

[root@www ~]#/usr/share/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl

# run config script

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
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

# select

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Organization Preferences
1. Organization Name
: SquirrelMail

2. Organization Logo
: ../images/sm_logo.png

3. Org. Logo Width/Height
: (308/111)

4. Organization Title
: SquirrelMail

5. Signout Page
:

6. Top Frame
: _top

7. Provider link
: http://www.squirrelmail.org/

8. Provider name
: SquirrelMail


R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
5

# change log-out page



When users click the Sign Out button they will be logged out and
then sent to signout_page. If signout_page is left empty,
(hit space and then return) they will be taken, as normal,
to the default and rather sparse SquirrelMail signout page.

[]:
/webmail
  
# change log-out page

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Organization Preferences
1. Organization Name
: SquirrelMail

2. Organization Logo
: ../images/sm_logo.png

3. Org. Logo Width/Height
: (308/111)

4. Organization Title
: SquirrelMail

5. Signout Page
: /webmail

6. Top Frame
: _top

7. Provider link
: http://www.squirrelmail.org/

8. Provider name
: SquirrelMail


R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
r

# back to menu

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
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 >>
2

# select

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Server Settings

General
-------
1. Domain
: localhost

2. Invert Time
: false

3. Sendmail or SMTP
: Sendmail


A. Update IMAP Settings
: localhost:143 (uw)

B. Change Sendmail Config
: /usr/sbin/sendmail


R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
1

# change to your domain name


The domain name is the suffix at the end of all email addresses. If
for example, your email address is jdoe.com, then your domain
would be example.com.

[localhost]:
server.world

# input

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Server Settings

General
-------
1. Domain
: server.world

2. Invert Time
: false

3. Sendmail or SMTP
: Sendmail


A. Update IMAP Settings
: localhost:143 (uw)

B. Change Sendmail Config
: /usr/sbin/sendmail

R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
3

# select


You now need to choose the method that you will use for sending
messages in SquirrelMail. You can either connect to an SMTP server
or use sendmail directly.

1. Sendmail
2. SMTP
Your choice [1/2] [1]:
2

# change to SMTP

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Server Settings

General
-------
1. Domain
: server.world

2. Invert Time
: false

3. Sendmail or SMTP
: SMTP


A. Update IMAP Settings
: localhost:143 (uw)

B. Change Sendmail Config
: localhost:25

R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
A

# select


SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Server Settings

General
-------
1. Domain
: server.world

2. Invert Time
: false

3. Sendmail or SMTP
: SMTP


IMAP Settings
--------------
4. IMAP Server
: localhost

5. IMAP Port
: 143

6. Authentication type
: login

7. Secure IMAP (TLS)
: false

8. Server software
: uw

9. Delimiter
: /


B. Update SMTP Settings
: localhost:25

H. Hide IMAP Server Settings

R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
4

# select


This is the hostname where your IMAP server can be contacted.
[localhost]:
mail.server.world

# specify your IMAP server

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Server Settings

General
-------
1. Domain
: server.world

2. Invert Time
: false

3. Sendmail or SMTP
: SMTP


IMAP Settings
--------------
4. IMAP Server
: mail.server.world

5. IMAP Port
: 143

6. Authentication type
: login

7. Secure IMAP (TLS)
: false

8. Server software
: uw

9. Delimiter
: /


B. Update SMTP Settings
: localhost:25

H. Hide IMAP Server Settings

R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
8

# select


Each IMAP server has its own quirks. As much as we tried to stick
to standards, it doesn't help much if the IMAP server doesn't follow
the same principles. We have made some work-arounds for some of
these servers. If you would like to use them, please select your
IMAP server. If you do not wish to use these work-arounds, you can
set this to "other", and none will be used.
   cyrus
= Cyrus IMAP server

   uw
= University of Washington's IMAP server

   exchange
= Microsoft Exchange IMAP server

   courier
= Courier IMAP server

   macosx
= Mac OS X Mailserver

   hmailserver
= hMailServer

   other
= Not one of the above servers

[uw]:
other

# this example wants to select dovecot but it's none in the list, so select 'other'

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Server Settings

General
-------
1. Domain
: server.world

2. Invert Time
: false

3. Sendmail or SMTP
: SMTP


IMAP Settings
--------------
4. IMAP Server
: mail.server.world

5. IMAP Port
: 143

6. Authentication type
: login

7. Secure IMAP (TLS)
: false

8. Server software
: other

9. Delimiter
: /


B. Update SMTP Settings
: localhost:25

H. Hide IMAP Server Settings

R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
9

# select


This is the delimiter that your IMAP server uses to distinguish between
folders. For example, Cyrus uses '.' as the delimiter and a complete
folder would look like 'INBOX.Friends.Bob', while UW uses '/' and would
look like 'INBOX/Friends/Bob'. Normally this should be left at 'detect'
but if you are sure you know what delimiter your server uses, you can
specify it here.

To have it autodetect the delimiter, set it to 'detect'.

[/]:
detect

# change 'detect'

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Server Settings

General
-------
1. Domain
: server.world

2. Invert Time
: false

3. Sendmail or SMTP
: SMTP


IMAP Settings
--------------
4. IMAP Server
: mail.server.world

5. IMAP Port
: 143

6. Authentication type
: login

7. Secure IMAP (TLS)
: false

8. Server software
: other

9. Delimiter
: detect


B. Update SMTP Settings
: localhost:25

H. Hide IMAP Server Settings

R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
B

# select


SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Server Settings

General
-------
1. Domain
: server.world

2. Invert Time
: false

3. Sendmail or SMTP
: SMTP


SMTP Settings
-------------
4. SMTP Server
: localhost

5. SMTP Port
: 25

6. POP before SMTP
: false

7. SMTP Authentication
: none

8. Secure SMTP (TLS)
: false

9. Header encryption key
:


A. Update IMAP Settings
: mail.server.world:143 (other)

H. Hide SMTP Settings

R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
4

# select


This is the hostname of your SMTP server.
[localhost]:
mail.server.world

# specify your SMTP server

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Server Settings

General
-------
1. Domain
: server.world

2. Invert Time
: false

3. Sendmail or SMTP
: SMTP


SMTP Settings
-------------
4. SMTP Server
: mail.server.world

5. SMTP Port
: 25

6. POP before SMTP
: false

7. SMTP Authentication
: none

8. Secure SMTP (TLS)
: false

9. Header encryption key
:


A. Update IMAP Settings
: mail.server.world:143 (other)

H. Hide SMTP Settings

R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
7

# select


If you have already set the hostname and port number, I can try to
automatically detect the mechanisms your SMTP server supports.
Auto-detection is *optional* - you can safely say "n" here.

Try to detect auth mechanisms? [y/N]:
y

# yes

Trying to detect supported methods (SMTP)...
Testing none: SUPPORTED
Testing login: SUPPORTED
Testing CRAM-MD5: NOT SUPPORTED
Testing DIGEST-MD5: NOT SUPPORTED

What authentication mechanism do you want to use for SMTP connections?
none - Your SMTP server does not require authorization.
login - Plaintext. If you can do better, you probably should.
cram-md5 - Slightly better than plaintext.
digest-md5 - Privacy protection - better than cram-md5.

*** YOUR SMTP SERVER MUST SUPPORT THE MECHANISM YOU CHOOSE HERE ***
If you don't understand or are unsure, you probably want "none"

none, login, cram-md5, or digest-md5 [none]:
login

# select login

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Server Settings

General
-------
1. Domain
: server.world

2. Invert Time
: false

3. Sendmail or SMTP
: SMTP


SMTP Settings
-------------
4. SMTP Server
: mail.server.world

5. SMTP Port
: 25

6. POP before SMTP
: false

7. SMTP Authentication
: login

8. Secure SMTP (TLS)
: false

9. Header encryption key
:


A. Update IMAP Settings
: mail.server.world:143 (other)

H. Hide SMTP Settings

R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
r

# back

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
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 >>
10

# select

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Language preferences
1. Default Language
: en_US

2. Default Charset
: iso-8859-1

3. Enable lossy encoding
: falsev


R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
1

# select


SquirrelMail attempts to set the language in many ways. If it
can not figure it out in another way, it will default to this
language. Please use the code for the desired language.

[en_US]:
ja_JP

# change to your kanguage

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Language preferences
1. Default Language
: ja_JP

2. Default Charset
: iso-8859-1

3. Enable lossy encoding
: false


R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
2

# select

This option controls what character set is used when sending
mail and when sending HTML to the browser.

This option is used only when default language is 'en_US'.

[iso-8859-1]:
iso-2022-jp

# specify your language

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Language preferences
1. Default Language
: ja_JP

2. Default Charset
: iso-2022-jp

3. Enable lossy encoding
: false

R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
r

# back

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
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 >>
4

# select

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
General Options
1. Data Directory
: /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs/

2. Attachment Directory
: /var/spool/squirrelmail/attach/

3. Directory Hash Level
: 0

4. Default Left Size
: 150

5. Usernames in Lowercase
: false

6. Allow use of priority
: true

7. Hide SM attributions
: false

8. Allow use of receipts
: true

9. Allow editing of identity
: true

Allow editing of name
: true

Remove username from header
: false

10. Allow server thread sort
: true

11. Allow server-side sorting
: true

12. Allow server charset search
: true

13. Enable UID support
: true

14. PHP session name
: SQMSESSID

15. Location base
:


R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
7

# select

Hide SM attributions (y/n) [n]:
y

# Yes

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
General Options
1. Data Directory
: /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs/

2. Attachment Directory
: /var/spool/squirrelmail/attach/

3. Directory Hash Level
: 0

4. Default Left Size
: 150

5. Usernames in Lowercase
: false

6. Allow use of priority
: true

7. Hide SM attributions
: true

8. Allow use of receipts
: true

9. Allow editing of identity
: true

Allow editing of name
: true

Remove username from header
: false

10. Allow server thread sort
: true

11. Allow server-side sorting
: true

12. Allow server charset search
: true

13. Enable UID support
: true

14. PHP session name
: SQMSESSID

15. Location base
:


R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
r

# back

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
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 >>
8

# select

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Plugins
Installed Plugins
1. delete_move_next
2. squirrelspell
3. newmail

Available Plugins:
4. listcommands
5. filters
6. fortune
7. mail_fetch
8. message_details
9. compatibility
10. calendar
11. translate
12. sent_subfolders
13. empty_trash
14. spamcop
15. bug_report
16. abook_take
17. info
18. secure_login
19. administrator

R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
9

# add compatibility (number is different at an env)

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Plugins
Installed Plugins
1. delete_move_next
2. squirrelspell
3. newmail
4. compatibility

Available Plugins:
5. listcommands
6. filters
7. fortune
8. mail_fetch
9. message_details
10. calendar
11. translate
12. sent_subfolders
13. empty_trash
14. spamcop
15. bug_report
16. abook_take
17. info
18. secure_login
19. administrator

R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
13

# add empty_trash (number is different at an env)

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Plugins
Installed Plugins
1. delete_move_next
2. squirrelspell
3. newmail
4. compatibility
5. empty_trash

Available Plugins:
6. listcommands
7. filters
8. fortune
9. mail_fetch
10. message_details
11. calendar
12. translate
13. sent_subfolders
14. spamcop
15. bug_report
16. abook_take
17. info
18. secure_login
19. administrator

R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
18

# add secure_login (number is different at an env)

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Plugins
Installed Plugins
1. delete_move_next
2. squirrelspell
3. newmail
4. compatibility
5. empty_trash
6. secure_login

Available Plugins:
7. listcommands
8. filters
9. fortune
10. mail_fetch
11. message_details
12. calendar
13. translate
14. sent_subfolders
15. spamcop
16. bug_report
17. abook_take
18. info
19. administrator

R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color off
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >>
q

# quit


You have not saved your data.
Save? [Y/n]:
y

# save

Data saved in config.php

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

[root@www ~]#
[root@www ~]#cd /usr/share/squirrelmail/plugins/secure_login

[root@www secure_login]#cp config.sample.php config.php

[root@www secure_login]#vi config.php


# line 24: change (continue to connect with SSL after login)

$change_back_to_http_after_login =
0
;

[root@www secure_login]#/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd reload

Reloading httpd:     [  OK  ]

[2]     Access to 'http://(your server's name or IP address/)/webmail/', then follwing sacreen is shown, then authenticate your user name and password to login.

Webmin Installation and Configuration in Ubuntu Linux

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager module), you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and so on.

Webmin consists of a simple web server, and a number of CGI programs which directly update system files like /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/passwd. The web server and all CGI programs are written in Perl version 5, and use no non-standard Perl modules.

Installing Webmin in Ubuntu



You can use the above procedure but if you want to install latest version you can download from webmin site download section

Prerequisites

Perl 5 interpreter and libnet-ssleay-perl

sudo apt-get install perl5 libnet-ssleay-perl

Now you need to download the latest webmin from the above downloadlink

Download ‘webmin-1.310.tar.gz’ (at the time of writing) to some location in your machine ex:- /usr/local/src

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.310.tar.gz

cd /usr/local/src

sudo tar xzvf webmin-1.310.tar.gz

cd webmin-1.310

sudo sh setup.sh

This will start the installation and now it will prompt for several questions answer them as follows

Config file directory [/etc/webmin]:
Leave as default, or change as you wish

Log file directory [/var/webmin]:
Leave as default, or change as you wish

Full path to perl (default /usr/bin/perl):
Leave as default, or change as you wish

Operating system:
Enter ‘6′

Version:
Enter ‘6′

Web server port (default 10000):

This is where you can start to make webmin more secure then the standard install you get with apt-get, Synaptic, or RPM. Leave as default or change it to what ever port you want.

Login name (default admin):

It is ‘admin’, so you can leave it as that, or put in any name that you like.

Login password:

By creating the user above and giving it a password, you have now made it so you will not need to log into webmin with root.

Password again:

enter your password again

If you did not install ‘libnet-ssleay-perl’ you will get the following message:

‘The Perl SSLeay library is not installed. SSL not available.’ You can continue with the install, but it would be more secure if you install sslrelay.

Use SSL (y/n):y

Choose yes here

Start Webmin at boot time (y/n):y

select here y

At this point it is going to configure things, install things, and create things…

It will then tell you that you can log in to https://hostipaddress:10000 and to accept the certificate.

Webmin User Password Change

If you want to change root password in webmin use this included Perl script:

sudo /usr/share/webmin/changepass.pl /etc/webmin root

Installing Webmin Securely with SSL on CentOS 5.2

Run command:

# yum install openssl
# yum install openssl-devel
# yum install perl
# yum install perl-Net-SSLeay perl-Crypt-SSLeay
# rpm --import http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc

Create the /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo file containing :

[webmin]
name=Webmin Distribution Neutral
baseurl=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum
enabled=0

Then run:

# yum --enablerepo=webmin install webmin

Check installation success with:

/etc/init.d/webmin status

If everything is good and webmin is running access it via:

https://yourdomain.com:10000/