#Squirrelmail authenticated user how to
#Squirrelmail authenticated user install
#Squirrelmail authenticated user full

In order to do this, you need to have the DNS for your domain name point to the IP at home. mkdir cd mkdir chown -R myusername:myusername myusernameĪt this point, you will like want to send email that is authenticated.

After that, the permissions are set for that user.

#Squirrelmail authenticated user how to

The code below shows how to setup the mail directory for a new user.The first step is to create the folder for the user and the second step is to create the folder for the email directory. Refer to server log for more information.

Jul 23 11:09:59 NAME-VirtualBox dovecot: imap(myusername): Error: Invalid user settings. Jul 23 11:09:59 NAME-VirtualBox dovecot: imap(myusername): Error: user myusername: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: mkdir(/home/myusername/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=1001(myusername) egid=1001(myusername) missing +w perm: /home, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) Under some Linux conditions and distros, the folder is created automatically. The reason for that is because the there is no /home/myusername. What the error below is attempts to explain is that it cannot create mail directory. One possible error could be that the user does not have the mail directory setup in the proper location. If anything fails, you can find the errors in the /var/log/mail.log file. root# useradd myusernameĪt this point, you can attempt a login. Now, you need to have a non-root user that can login. Root:/var/lib/squirrelmail# chown daemon:daemon attachments

Root:/var/lib/squirrelmail# chmod -R 777 attachments Root:/var/lib/squirrelmail# mkdir attachments Root:/var/lib/squirrelmail# chmod -R 777 data If unsuccessful, you will need to change owners and permissions

#Squirrelmail authenticated user install

Root# sudo apt-get install dovecot-postfixĬongratulations, your SquirrelMail setup looks fine to me! Root# sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -dport (143) -j ACCEPT 'ERROR: Error connecting to IMAP server 'localhost:143'.Server error: (111) Connection refused' You may see errors and warnings such as 5) Open browser and run configtest to troubleshoot. 1) root# apt-get install squirrelmail squirrelmail-localesģ) root# ln -s /etc/squirrelmail/nf /etc/apache2/conf.d/nfĤ) Check browser to see if login shows up: This tutorial will explain how to install and use Squirrelmail with Ubuntu.

#Squirrelmail authenticated user full

Look at the user name in the first case, solor shows the user when it should show the user and the domain to which it belongs, as well as logging in my squirremail me, just let me put my username (info), not me lets put the full email (info my bad English, I only speak Spanish and I am using a translator.Your home pc or home server running Ubuntu can easily be used to send email and run many web server applications such as phpMyAdmin and Squirrelmail. = Another observation I have is that in my email source code shows this : With my old service provider’s hosting was easier, I detected all ports automatically. I’m sure it’s port configuration, you do not know where I can find this. To be more exact ' thunderbird ', this is what happens when I try to link my mail, thunderbird. After much struggle I have managed to set up my email server and it gets to inbox if any risk, sending email as normal from squirremail, but now comes me a disadvantage in trying to link my account with any mailer desktop.