Squirrelmail

[stangz]

Hello,

Has anyone tried to install squirrelmail yet? If so, how did it go?

[thevillageinn]

I have. it went pretty well. I have some more config to do, but it's working to receive and send mail, so that's a positive note

to install I simply FTPd all the files and directories (simply is a bit of an understatement, since the default archive includes tons of localisation files which may not even be necessary, but there are some 600 + files) and then I manually edited the config.php file and CHMODed a couple of files and I was good to go.

I guess if you have shell access it's much easier since you can run the config.pl file, however the installation directions on the Squirrelmail Website (http://www.squirrelmail.org) which weren't very clear to me provided enough of a hint in the right direction. Unfortunately, the documentation explicitly advises against running config.pl as a CGI.

Hope that helps, and best of luck if you decide to try it.
-Dan

[canes3]

I got squirrelmail installed without having to use the conf.pl...but I can't get any of the plugins to work without using it. I tried just manually editing the config.php, but no luck. Any advice?

[thevillageinn]

no plugins are installed by default. you have to specify which you want to install in the config.php file...look for this part:


global $plugins;

/**

* To install plugins, just add elements to this array that have

* the plugin directory name relative to the /plugins/ directory.

* For instance, for the 'sqclock' plugin, you'd put a line like

* the following.

* $plugins[0] = 'sqclock';

* $plugins[1] = 'attachment_common';

*/



then to add a plugin, add a line like the example either before the comment or after, but before the next configuration item.