Installation configuration Open Webmail set up free email server

Open Webmail is neomail 1.14 rewritten, it has a good interface and with Outllook close to the multimedia letter display capabilities, and support for multiple mail folders, contacts, POP3 external mail, e-mail rules and Full-text search, read letter, such as reply to functions. Open Webmail is not high on system requirements, suitable for a variety of open operating systems, any common Web server can easily add open webmail as a web-based free electronic post office. This article describes how to install and configure open WebMail on a Linux system.

First, preparatory work

Download the following packages from the Web:

Cgi.pm-2.74.tar.gz

Mime-base64-2.12.tar.gz

Authen-pam-0.12.tar.gz

Ispell-3.1.20.tar.gz

Hc-30.tar.gz

Take cgi.pm For example, the installation method is as follows:

Cd/tmp

TAR-ZXVF cgi.pm-2.74.tar.gz

CD cgi.pm-2.74

Perl makefile.pl

Make

Make install

Other packages are installed similarly.

Second, download openwebmail-x.xx.tgz

The operation is as follows:

Cd/home/httpd

Tar-zxvbpf/tmp/openwebmail-x.xx.tgz

MV Data/openwebmail html/

RmDir data

Third, the configuration

1, in the/home/httpd/cgi-bin/openwebmail directory to modify openwebmail.pl, openwebmail-main.pl, openwebmail-prefs.pl, spellcheck.pl and checkmail.pl, change the/usr/local/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail to/home/httpd/cgi-bin/openwebmail.

2. Modify auth_unix.pl to set shadow file as/etc/shadow

3, modify the/home/httpd/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/openwebmail.conf, according to the machine configuration adjustment mailspooldir, Ow_htmldir, Ow_cgidir, spellcheck and set the default parameters for Webmail, such as folder limit, idle time, background, default signature file, and so on.

4, modify/ETC/SENDMAIL.CF, in trusted users to add Thttpd_user, which httpd_user according to system settings, such as nobody or Apache.

Four, test

Open the browser and enter your_server/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail.pl.