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Submitted by falko (Contact Author) (Forums) on Tue, 2008-05-20 17:25. ::
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wa iting a nd no m o re spa m SquirrelM ail is a webmail interfac e that will let
w w w .ArmR esearch.com tweet
your us ers s end and rec eive emails in a
SQL Server Data Modeling brows er. T his c hapter s hows how to ins tall it and adjus t
Gra phica lly de sign yo ur 2005/2008 it to our s etup s o that us ers c an even c hange their
da ta ba se . Do wnlo a d SSDa ta W o rk s email ac c ount pas s word from the SquirrelM ail interfac e.
no w!
w w w .SoftMosis.com T o ins tall SquirrelM ail, we run:
Ubuntu Crash
Fre e Answe rs to Y o ur Linux
apt-get install squirrelmail php-pear
C o m pute r Q ue stio ns. R e giste r Fo r
Fre e T o da y!
w w w .DaniWeb.com N ext we c opy the A pac he c onfiguration that c omes with
the SquirrelM ail pac kage to the /etc/apache2/conf.d
direc tory and res tart A pac he:

cp /etc/squirrelmail/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/squirrelmail.conf
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

SquirrelM ail c omes with s ome pre- ins talled plugins , unfortunately none of them is c apable of letting
us c hange our email pas s word in our M ySQ L databas e. But there's the C hange SQ L P as s word plugin
whic h we c an ins tall manually:

T he plugin depends on the P ear- D B pac kage s o we ins tall it:

pear install DB

T hen we ins tall the Change SQL Password plugin its elf:

cd /usr/share/squirrelmail/plugins
wget http://www.squirrelmail.org/countdl.php?fileurl=http%3A%2F
%2Fwww.squirrelmail.org%2Fplugins%2Fchange_sqlpass-3.3-1.2.tar.gz
tar xvfz change_sqlpass-3.3-1.2.tar.gz
cd change_sqlpass
cp config.php.sample config.php

N ow we mus t edit config.php and adjus t it to our s etup. P leas e adjus t the $csp_dsn,
$lookup_password_query, $password_update_queries, $password_encryption, $csp_salt_static, and
$csp_delimiter variables as follows and c omment out $csp_salt_query:

vi config.php

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[...]
$csp_dsn = 'mysql://mail_admin:mail_admin_password@loca
[...]
$lookup_password_query = 'SELECT count(*) FROM users WH
[...]
$password_update_queries = array('UPDATE users SET pass
[...]
$password_encryption = 'MYSQLENCRYPT';
[...]
$csp_salt_static = 'LEFT(password, 2)';
[...]
//$csp_salt_query = 'SELECT salt FROM users WHERE usern
[...]
$csp_delimiter = '@';
[...]
T he c omplete file looks as follows :

<?php

/**
* SquirrelMail Change SQL Password Plugin
* Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Tyler Akins
* 2002 Thijs Kinkhorst <kink@users.sour
* 2002-2005 Paul Lesneiwski <paul@openg
* This program is licensed under GPL. See COPYING for
*
* @package plugins
* @subpackage Change SQL Password
*
*/

T he Change SQL Password plugin als o depends on the C ompatibility plugin whic h we ins tall as follows :

cd /usr/share/squirrelmail/plugins
wget http://www.squirrelmail.org/countdl.php?fileurl=http%3A%2F
%2Fwww.squirrelmail.org%2Fplugins%2Fcompatibility-2.0.11-1.0.tar.gz

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tar xvfz compatibility-2.0.11-1.0.tar.gz

N ow we mus t go into the SquirrelM ail c onfiguration and tell SquirrelM ail that we us e C ourier as our
P O P 3 and I M A P s erver and enable the Change SQL Password and the Compatibility plugins :

/usr/sbin/squirrelmail-configure

Y ou'll s ee the following menu. N avigate through it as indic ated:

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)

---------------------------------------------------------
Main Menu --
1. Organization Preferences
2. Server Settings
3. Folder Defaults
4. General Options
5. Themes
6. Address Books
7. Message of the Day (MOTD)
8. Plugins
9. Database
10. Languages

D. Set pre-defined settings for specific IMAP servers

C Turn color on
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >> <-- D

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php

---------------------------------------------------------
While we have been building SquirrelMail, we have discovered some
preferences that work better with some servers that don't work so
well with others. If you select your IMAP server, this option will
set some pre-defined settings for that server.

Please note that you will still need to go through and make sure
everything is correct. This does not change everything. There are
only a few settings that this will change.

Please select your IMAP server:

bincimap = Binc IMAP server
courier = Courier IMAP server
cyrus = Cyrus IMAP server
dovecot = Dovecot Secure IMAP server

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exchange = Microsoft Exchange IMAP server

hmailserver = hMailServer
macosx = Mac OS X Mailserver
mercury32 = Mercury/32
uw = University of Washington's IMAP server

quit = Do not change anything

Command >> <-- c our i er

imap_server_type = courier
default_folder_prefix = INBOX.
trash_folder = Trash
sent_folder = Sent
draft_folder = Drafts
show_prefix_option = false
default_sub_of_inbox = false
show_contain_subfolders_option = false
optional_delimiter = .
delete_folder = true

Press any key to continue... <-- pr ess some k ey

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)

---------------------------------------------------------
Main Menu --
1. Organization Preferences
2. Server Settings
3. Folder Defaults
4. General Options
5. Themes
6. Address Books
7. Message of the Day (MOTD)
8. Plugins
9. Database
10. Languages

D. Set pre-defined settings for specific IMAP servers

C Turn color on
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >> <-- 8

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)

---------------------------------------------------------
Plugins
Installed Plugins

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Available Plugins:
1. abook_take
2. administrator
3. bug_report
4. calendar
5. change_sqlpass
6. compatibility
7. delete_move_next
8. demo
9. filters
10. fortune
11. info
12. listcommands
13. mail_fetch
14. message_details
15. newmail
16. sent_subfolders
17. spamcop
18. squirrelspell
19. test
20. translate

R Return to Main Menu

C Turn color on
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >> <-- 6 (or w hatev er numb er the c ompati b i l i ty pl ugi n has - i t's needed b y the c hange_sql pass pl ugi n)

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)

---------------------------------------------------------
Plugins
Installed Plugins
1. compatibility

Available Plugins:
2. abook_take
3. administrator
4. bug_report
5. calendar
6. change_sqlpass
7. delete_move_next
8. demo
9. filters
10. fortune
11. info
12. listcommands
13. mail_fetch
14. message_details
15. newmail
16. sent_subfolders

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17. spamcop
18. squirrelspell
19. test
20. translate

R Return to Main Menu

C Turn color on
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >> <-- 6 (the numb er of the c hange_sql pass pl ugi n)

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)

---------------------------------------------------------
Plugins
Installed Plugins
1. compatibility
2. change_sqlpass

Available Plugins:
3. abook_take
4. administrator
5. bug_report
6. calendar
7. delete_move_next
8. demo
9. filters
10. fortune
11. info
12. listcommands
13. mail_fetch
14. message_details
15. newmail
16. sent_subfolders
17. spamcop
18. squirrelspell
19. test
20. translate

R Return to Main Menu

C Turn color on
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >> <-- S

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)

---------------------------------------------------------
Plugins
Installed Plugins

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1. compatibility
2. change_sqlpass

Available Plugins:
3. abook_take
4. administrator
5. bug_report
6. calendar
7. delete_move_next
8. demo
9. filters
10. fortune
11. info
12. listcommands
13. mail_fetch
14. message_details
15. newmail
16. sent_subfolders
17. spamcop
18. squirrelspell
19. test
20. translate

R Return to Main Menu

C Turn color on
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >> S

Data saved in config.php

Press enter to continue... <-- pr ess some k ey

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)

---------------------------------------------------------
Plugins
Installed Plugins
1. compatibility
2. change_sqlpass

Available Plugins:
3. abook_take
4. administrator
5. bug_report
6. calendar
7. delete_move_next
8. demo
9. filters
10. fortune
11. info
12. listcommands

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13. mail_fetch
14. message_details
15. newmail
16. sent_subfolders
17. spamcop
18. squirrelspell
19. test
20. translate

R Return to Main Menu

C Turn color on
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >> <-- Q

N ow you c an type in http://server1.example.com/squirrelmail or http://192.168.0.100/squirrelmail in

your brows er to ac c es s SquirrelM ail.

L og in with your email addres s (e.g. sales@example.com) and your pas s word:

Y ou s hould find the welc ome email in your inbox:

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T o c hange your pas s word, go to Options and then s elec t Change Password:

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T ype in your c urrent pas s word and then your new pas s word twic e:

SquirrelM ail will tell you if the pas s word has been c hanged s uc c es s fully:

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T utorial: I SP - s tyle E mail Servic e with D ebian- Sarge and P os tfix 2 .1 : http://workaround.org/artic les
/is pmail- s arge/
P os tfix + Q uota: http://vhc s .net/new/modules /newbb/viewtopic .php? topic _id=3 4 9 6 &forum=1 7
M ail P as s words E nc rypted us ing s as lauthd: http://www.s ys c p.de/doc s /public /c ontrib/c ryptedmailpws

P os tfix M T A : http://www.pos tfix.org/

P os tfix Q uota P atc h: http://web.onda.c om.br/nadal/
phpM yA dmin: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/
SquirrelM ail: http://www.s quirrelmail.org/
U buntu: http://www.ubuntu.c om/

8 .0 4 L T S) - P age 4

T his page is lic ens ed under a C reative C ommons L ic ens e.

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error
Submitted by ash (not registered) on Thu, 2009-01-15 15:41.

Hello:

i did all steps and as result i found

ERROR: ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.

and my server wont relay no more . so how i can cancel all modifications ?

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Re: error
Submitted by Vhinz (not registered) on Mon, 2009-03-30 11:20.

Getting the same error posted last January...This happens when I logged without the domain (Name: user)

ERROR:

ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.

The error below is when I have used the user with @domain.tld (user@example.com)

ERROR

Unknown user or password incorrect.

Go to the login page

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Re: Re: error

Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Thu, 2009-04-02 18:34.

Did you send the welcome email to the account you're testing with?

Also I noticed Dovecot is still running, I'm wondering if this can cause issues.

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Create mailbox
Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Tue, 2008-10-14 15:13.

Dunno why but mailx doesn't send any email and any mailbox is created. Who can help me plz?
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how do i manange this thing?

Submitted by Dmitry Sherman (not registered) on Wed, 2008-09-10 18:43.

Seems like the mysql structure is different from the default.

Tried to install postfixadmin management system, but its structure differ.

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