Question on installing squirrelmail

[satimis]

Hi folks,


Ubuntu 7.04 server amd64


I have squirrelmail-2:1.4.9 installed on repository


According to:-
Package: squirrelmail (2:1.4.10a-2~feisty1) [universe]
http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty-backports/web/squirrelmail

Other Packages Related to squirrelmail

apache-2.2.3 (already installed)
php-5.2.1 (already installed
libapache2-mod-php-5.2.1 (already installed)
perl-5.8.8 (already installed)
php-pear-5.2.1 (already installed)


ispell-3.1.20.0 (not yet installed)
squirrelmail-locales-1.4.8 (not yet installed)

imap-server (not available on repository)
courier-imap-4.1.1 (already installed)

imapproxy-1.2.4 (not yet installed)
php5-ldap-5.2.1 (not yet installed)
squirrelmail-decode-1.1-2 (not yet installed)

I can have above packages installed on repo except imap-server which is NOT on repository. Do I need installing all of them?


Where can I find relevant doc to configure squirrelmail?


Another thought, would it be easier to down the packages on;

http://www.squirrelmail.org

and installed them accordingly?


TIA


B.R.
satimis

[MJN]

Personally, I would just download it directly from Squirrelmail as it doesn't need much in the way of 'installation' given it uses PHP.

Incidentally, the requirement for 'imap-server' is not specifying the requirement for a package called 'imap-server' but rather any package that is an imap server (e.g. dovecot, courier, uw-imap etc) which you will have to have as Squirrelmail is a web-based IMAP client.

I don't normally install packages from outside the repositories however Squirrelmail is one where I consider it quite acceptable to do so - it also means you can easily keep uptodate with the newer releases as bug/security fixes are released.

Mathew

[bmathis]

you can install courier-imap as the imap server, just do a "sudo aptitude install courier-imap"

[HermanAB]

Before installing squirrel, have alook at roundcube and dare I say - Citadel.

Squirrel works, but pretty or modern, it is not.

[satimis]

Hi MJN and bmathis,


Your advice noted with thanks


satimis

[satimis]

Before installing squirrel, have alook at roundcube and dare I say - Citadel.
Hi HermanAB,


I have roundcube installed and running here. But I can't configure it to work. I'm stuck on follows;


I found this nice howto;

http://forums.site5.com/showthread.php?t=9374


According to the howto;


1)

I don't have netAdmin and phpmyadmin. Webmin and Usermin are running here.

# which netAdmin
# which netadmin
# which phpmyadmin
all w/o printout



2)

What shall I replace "databasename"? Mysql is running on this server.


3)

What shall I replace "change this key"? It has data here (rcmail-!24ByteDESkey*Str)


I posted my questions to their forum and got following response;
netadmin is a skin of cpanel that site5 has made. phpmyadmin can
be downloaded from
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php

you can use phpmyadmin to import the sql file into the database.
you can also use phpmyadmin to create the database



On remote PC I failed to start roundcube-webmail on the server;

https://domain.com/roundcube-webmail
Service Currently Not Available!

Error No. 1f4

I don't know how to proceed further. Any suggestion? TIA


B.R.
satimis

[satimis]

Hi folks,


Ubuntu 7.04 server amd64 (Host OS) - mail server
VMWare
Webmin
Usermin
CentOS 5 (Guest OS)
squirrelmail-1.4.11


http://domain.com/squirrelmail
Not Found

The requested URL /squirrelmail was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.3 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 SVN/1.4.3 PHP/5.2.1 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c Server at domain.com Port 80


http://domain.com:80/squirrelmail
http://domain.com:8080/squirrelmail
Same output


Please advise where shall I check and how to fix it. TIA


B.R.
satimis

[bmathis]

did you make a link in apache2 and activate the site? follow this link for more info https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Squirrelmail

[satimis]

Hi bmathis,


Now I can start squirrelmail on Firefox by running;

http://domain.com/squirrelmail


But I can't login as root/users having account on Postfix.
Error connecting to IMAP server: localhost.
110 : Connection timed out

Courier-imap is running here NOT IMAP

$ apt-cache policy courier-imap
courier-imap:
Installed: 4.1.1.20060828-5ubuntu1
Candidate: 4.1.1.20060828-5ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 4.1.1.20060828-5ubuntu1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status



Besides I can't start squirrelmail with;

http://localhost/squirrelmail.


Advice would be appreciated. TIA


B.R.
satimis

[bmathis]

question: do you have a Maildir folder in your home directory? if not, this would prevent you from logging into squirrelmail, try sending yourself an email and it should auto create that folder for you, then try logging into squirrelmail again.

[satimis]

question: do you have a Maildir folder in your home directory? if not, this would prevent you from logging into squirrelmail, try sending yourself an email and it should auto create that folder for you, then try logging into squirrelmail again.
Yes. The mail server is working nicely. Users can send and receive emails remotely via Internet or Intranet on their mail client, Evolution.


satimis

[bmathis]

alright, can you telnet to port 143 or can you connect to imap via a mail client? Can you post the block of code starting with $domain in /usr/share/squirrelmail/config/config.php, omitting sensitive information of course.

[satimis]

alright, can you telnet to port 143 or can you connect to imap via a mail client?

It seems the iptables blocking the connection !!!


$ sudo iptables -F


$ telnet localhost 143
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE
THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THRE
AD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP
ready. Copyr
ight 1998-2005 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution
information.


On firefox;

http://localhost/squirrelmail

starts;
Squirrelmail

URL changes to;
http://localhost/squirrelmail/src/redirect.php


On login following warning popup;
ERROR
Error opening ../data/default_pref
Could not create initial preference file!
/var/local/squirrelmail/data/ should be writable by user www-data
Please contact your system administrator and report this error.



$ ls -l /var/local/
total 0


Shall I create /var/local/squirrelmail/data directories?
???

What will be their owner and permission?



Can you post the block of code starting with $domain in /usr/share/squirrelmail/config/config.php, omitting sensitive information of course.
The path is on;
/usr/local/squirrelmail/www/config/config.php
.....
$domain = 'satimis.com';
$imapServerAddress = 'localhost';
$imapPort = 143;
$useSendmail = false;
$smtpServerAddress = 'localhost';
$smtpPort = 25;
$sendmail_path = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
$sendmail_args = '-i -t';
$pop_before_smtp = false;
$imap_server_type = 'other';
$invert_time = false;
$optional_delimiter = 'detect';
$encode_header_key = '';

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

$data_dir = '/var/local/squirrelmail/data/';
$attachment_dir = SM_PATH . 'attachments/';
$dir_hash_level = 0;
$default_left_size = '150';
$force_username_lowercase = false;
$default_use_priority = true;
$hide_sm_attributions = false;
$default_use_mdn = true;
$edit_identity = true;
$edit_name = true;
$hide_auth_header = false;
$allow_thread_sort = false;
$allow_server_sort = false;
$allow_charset_search = true;
$uid_support = true;
....

I did something wrong here. I'll delete this file and re-run conf.pl

I don't run sendmail
$sendmail_path = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';

Postfix is running here.

What will be your advice on this file? TIA


B.R.
satimis

[bmathis]

1. Did you add a rule to your iptables setup to allow the localhost to connect to port 143?
2. The URL of squirrelmail will change due to the link created to activate the site
3. I'm not sure about /var/local because mine doesnt have any data or directories in it, the permissions are as follows: drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff
4. Your config file looks okay from what I can tell and the sendmail part is okay as well.

It looks like you built squirrelmail from scratch instead of using the ubuntu provided deb file? Other than what i offered previously, I am at a lost. Have you tried the squirrelmail wiki/forums/mailing lists?

[satimis]

Hi bmathis,


After performed following steps, SquirrelMail works;

$ cd /usr/local/squirrelmail/www/config
$ su
Password

# ./conf.pl
1. select imap server in D command
2. set domain
3. set data and attachment directory

# mkdir -p /var/local/squirrelmail/data
# chown www-data:www-data -c /var/local/squirrelmail/data
changed ownership of `/var/local/squirrelmail/data' to www-data:www-data


# chmod 0750 -c /var/local/squirrelmail/data
mode of `/var/local/squirrelmail/data' changed to 0750 (rwxr-x---)


# mkdir /var/local/squirrelmail/attach
# chown www-data:www-data -c /var/local/squirrelmail/attach
changed ownership of `/var/local/squirrelmail/attach' to www-data:www-data


# chmod 0750 -c /var/local/squirrelmail/attach
mode of `/var/local/squirrelmail/attach' changed to 0750 (rwxr-x---)



Then;

https://localhost/squirrelmail

works



Did you add a rule to your iptables setup to allow the localhost to connect to port 143?

$ cat /etc/rc.local
# INPUT

# allow all incoming traffic from the management interface NIC
# as long as it is a part of an established connection
iptables -I INPUT 1 -j ACCEPT -d 220.232.213.178 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED

# allow all ssh traffic to the management interface NIC
iptables -I INPUT 2 -j ACCEPT -p TCP -d 220.232.213.178 --destination-port 22

# allow all VMware MUI HTTP traffic to the management interface NIC
iptables -I INPUT 3 -j ACCEPT -p TCP -d 220.232.213.178 --destination-port 8222

# allow all VMware MUI HTTPS traffic to the management interface NIC
iptables -I INPUT 4 -j ACCEPT -p TCP -d 220.232.213.178 --destination-port 8333

# allow all VMware Authorization Daemon traffic to the management interface NIC
iptables -I INPUT 5 -j ACCEPT -p TCP -d 220.232.213.178 --destination-port 902

# reject all other traffic to the management interface NIC
iptables -I INPUT 6 -j REJECT -d 220.232.213.178 --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable


# OUTPUT

# allow all outgoing traffic from the management interface NIC
# if it is a part of an established connection
iptables -I OUTPUT 1 -j ACCEPT -s 220.232.213.178 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED

# allow all DNS queries from the management interface NIC
iptables -I OUTPUT 2 -j ACCEPT -s 220.232.213.178 -p UDP --destination-port 53

# reject all other traffic from localhost
iptables -I OUTPUT 3 -j REJECT -s 127.0.0.1 --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable

# reject all other traffic from the management interface NIC
iptables -I OUTPUT 4 -j REJECT -s 220.232.213.178 --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable

How to add port 143? TIA


B.R.
satimis