RE: [cobalt-users] EmuMail Webmail

["JK" <thejk@xxxxxxxx>]

>Has anyone used EmuMail Webmail 4.5/4 free version on a
>Cobalt Raq4 before?
>If so how do you like it? Is it working out well for you?

I tried this on an NT server a while ago. The free version (if it's
similar on Linux) comes with banner ads, which in the end become too
much of an eye sore, in my opinion. Of course, I have another
"solution" in mind, which is why I'm talking down on Emumail. ;-) Hey,
but take my comment with a bucketful of salt.

>I'm trying to put
>a good webmail package on my server, but I'm not sure what
>is the best. I
>really like NeoMail, but it's a real pain to install, any
>suggestions?

We run Neomail on our Cobalt. I posted a detailed instruction on how
to do it a while ago. Though it should be in the archive, for the sake
of convenience, I will post it here again.

1. create a file, /etc/procmailrc and put the following in there.
(Just
one line's enough)
    UMASK=007 (or at minimum, 017)
AND you should chmod u+x /home/spool/mail/*, reason being: Procmail
will override permissions on mail spool unless
u+x is set. (see
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/2001-01/msg00179.htm
l)

2. start and stop the procmail by /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart

3. install Neomail and give site name (home,site1,site21,etc.) as the
name of the mail group, when asked to input mail spool writing group.
(mail/suid field). Because of CGIWrap, suid won't work for Neomail.

OTPIONAL: Copy your shadow(probably /etc/shadow for you) file to
another location and chown root.sitename
(where sitename is the name of the site you are using Neomail for.)
Take
out unnecessary user name if you have to.

I heard of Squirrelmail being recommended. Haven't tried it, but
apparently, the instruction is at:
http://www.uk2raq.com/raqfaq.shtml#q29

Hope this helps.