26.6 Email Quick Start
REVIEW
A quick and easy installation will have you up and running with a Maildir-based mail system, supplemented with IMAP access, and a web-based email client.
Configure exim4, exim4, exim4, exim4, exim4, exim4 to deliver email to a user’s Maildir
folder in their home directory. This requires reconfiguring the
exim4-config package which will take care of writing the
correct configuration files (e.g.
/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf). The aim is to set:
Exim4, Exim4, Exim4, Exim4, Exim4, Exim4 creates the approriate Maildir folder and structure under the user’s accounts as required. See Section ?? for more details on using exim.
Next, install courier-imap. This will then set up a
server (on port 143) to deliver IMAP and any user in the password file
can connect. Using mutt the server is
imap://localhost/. For a secure IMAP server install
courier-imap-ssl, courier-imap-ssl (which then uses port 993) and to access
from mutt use imaps://localhost:993/inbox. If the
IMAP server is only being used on a small local network (like at home)
with access to it provided through a web mail tool (like
squirrelmail) through a secure web server (using https,
such as apache-ssl), then courier-imap-ssl, courier-imap-ssl is
probably not required (since you would access the
squirrelmail server through https, not your imap server)!
Now install squirrelmail and you can then log in to your
IMAP server from any web browser
(https://localhost/squirrelmail). Be sure that your
apache-ssl server has index.php on its list of
DirectoryIndex files in /etc/apache-ssl/httpd.conf.
You may also need to have some PHP packages installed, in particular
php4-cgi. If the INBOX link of the SuirrelMail page is
not active, edit /etc/squirrelmail/config.php to set:
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