External access for Squirrelmail? 1

[jisoo23]

Hello all,

I'm not familiar with squirrelmail and I couldn't find the solution on their website. My website is located on a commercial web host service who provides me with unlimited email accounts along with 3 different email programs, one of which is squirrelmail.

Here's the problem, I can create multiple email accounts for myself and others (i.e. my family) but they only way to get into squirrelmail is through Cpanel. That means they need administrative rights to the backend of my website in order to get in to their email. Of course this is a problem, I need a way for others to get into webmail via an external interface...i.e.

http://www.mydomain.com/squirrelmail/login

or something of the sort. Does anyone know how I can do this? I've already emailed my tech support and they said they don't have anything like this and that I should go look for a script or something to accomplish this.

Thanks,
Jisoo23

 

[thedaver]

It would be highly unusual for squirrelmail to be "cpanel only" since squirrelmail is an TCP port 80 web application normally world-facing.

You could attempt to install squirrelmail on your own onto the webserver.

You could also switch web hosting providers to something that is more standard of an installation.

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[smah]

As a wild guess, try accessing:

http://www.yourdomain.com/webmail

I agree with thedaver...the whole point of squirrelmail is so that users can directly access mail from a web interface.

 

[jisoo23]

Yeah that's what I thought. It seemed completely stupid to have unlimited email accounts but have no public interface to get to them. I'm going to email tech support again because that's just completely asinine to not give that service to me.

Thanks Guys!

 

[RandyRiegel]

Any user can access the webmail programs via

http://yourdomain.com:2095

then enter their full email address and password into the http authenticaion box. You should then get to choose between Neomail, Horde, or Squirrelmail. Any user can do this without needing administrative access to cpanel.

Although, in my opinion it is better to download squirrelmail from squirrelmail.org and install it yourself in your webspace. You can then configure your install how you want it via plugins.

Randy

 

[thedaver]

Randy I gave you a star for helping us non-cpanel folks understand the ways of such a beast. I still cannot fathom asking "users" to go to a url with a port assignment in it any more. That's so 1997, hehe.

D.E.R. Management - IT Project Management Consulting

http://www.dermanagement.com/

 

[RandyRiegel]

Thanks Daver,

When I got my first hosting account I got my webmail the "cpanel" way for about a week until I decided to install squirrelmail on a subdomain (webmail.mydomain.com), that makes it easy. Plus I have tons of plugins in my squirrelmail install.

Randy

 

[jisoo23]

Thanks for the helpful information Randy. To install Squirrelmail myself into a subdomain, this means I need SSH access correct? Along with proper administrative permissions on the server of course.

 

[RandyRiegel]

You don't have to have SSH access, but it makes it easier. You just have to make changes to the config/config.php file and upload everything. You do need to set permissions for the data directory, but you should be able to do this in cpanel under the file manager.

The one thing nice about SSH is you can configure squirrelmail with config/config.pl perl program instead of manually editing config.php.

Randy

 

[jisoo23]

What sorts of changes to the config.php file are you talking about? Is this something that's listed in Squirrelmail's documentation?

 

[RandyRiegel]

Actually none of it needs to be changed, but you can make changes like:

$org_name = "your company";
$org_image = SM_PATH . "/path/to/my/image.jpg"

stuff like that. You should only have to customize the first few lines of file.

If you want I can send you my config.php file so you can see which lines I've changed from the orginal orginal.

Randy

 

[RandyRiegel]

yes it should be in the documentation somewhere. But, I'm sure as you've probably noticed squirrelmail doesn't give alot of documentation about stuff. I basically kept installing it and trying things till i got it right because i couldn't find any good docs.

Randy