Title: Install Squirrelmail
Course: CIS 208: Linux/UNIX III: Intermediate System Administration, Networking, and Security ~ For IGNITE Review > Section: Learning Modules

Install Squirrelmail

Web based email clients are often preferred because they need no client side configuration and they only require a browser.  Squirrelmail is the most popular of the web-based email clients, and it has a variety of plugins which can be installed for special features or a custom look.

- To ensure that you have the latest version of squirrel mail, download directly from their website, http://squirrelmail.org.
- Also ensure that httpd, mod_ssl, php, postfix and dovecot have been installed and configured properly.
- The following commands will extract the files into an appropriate location and set up the configuration process.

cd /var/www/html
tar xvf ~/squirrelmail*gz
ln -s squirrelmail*[!z] webmail
cd webmail
./configure

- Go through each of the configuration menus and select options as desired.  Note that the smtp server and imap server can be set to localhost if all mail services are installed on a single server.
- Connect to the URL https://<hostname>/webmail to test the connection.  If there are any problems, check the error logs in /var/log/httpd, since squirrelmail runs in php and errors are logged in the httpd log files.
- Verify that you are able to send and receive email locally using a normal user account.