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Squirrelmail - web site

Squirrelmail is a very attractive and usable web mail client. It's very configurable and there's tons of plug-ins available to customize it like crazy. A couple of my favorite plugins are the SpamAssassin per-user prefs and quota plugins. Squirrelmail is highly recommended.

How do I configure squirrelmail?

  • cd /usr/local/www/squirrelmail
  • ./configure

How do I use Squirrelmail SQL preferences?

Set install_squirrelmail_sql in toaster-watcher.conf and run toaster_setup.pl -s squirrelmail. That will install Squirrelmail (if necessary) and configure the MySQL database and tables. The only other thing required is to add the path to pear-DB to php.ini. Edit /usr/local/etc/php.ini and set:

  • include_path = ".:/usr/local/share/pear"

How do I get squirrelmail authentication logging to work?

Squirrelmail doesn't log anything by default. You need to fix this by installing the logging plugin available from http://www.squeaksoft.com/products/SquirrelLogger/. The author of that plugin very gratiously added support for syslog logging (per our email exchange) as of version 1.4. I make the following change to the setup.php file:

  • [matt@cadillac] % diff setup.php setup.php.dist
  • 32c32
  • < $sl_syslog_priority = 22; // Default is LOG_INFO
  • ---
  • > $sl_syslog_priority = LOG_INFO; // Default LOG_INFO

and voila, webmail logins are now logged via syslog.mail.

Last modified on 4/28/05.