You'll need to make sure you have a recent version of PHP installed.

Resources

• RoundCube main site
• Jason Litka CentOS Yum repository

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1. rpm --import http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/RPM-GPG-KEY-jlitka

1. yum update php

1. yum install php-pecl-Fileinfo
2. yum install php-xml
3. yum install php-mcrypt
4. yum install php-gd

1. service httpd restart

1. cd /www
2. tar xzvf roundcubemail-0.2.1.tar.gz
3. mv roundcubemail-0.2.1.tar.gz webmail
4. chown apache.apache -R webmail

This page is part of the EmailServer article.

RoundCube webmail interface

As a replacement, RoundCube looks promising: it does what it's supposed to (handle email), has a nice interface , is in active development and has a good user base and community.

Installing

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1. mysql roundcubemail < SQL/mysql.initial.sql

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Open your browser and then point to the installer: http://example.com/installer/ Just follow the instructions on screen.

All these instructions are available on the RoundCube website: http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Howto_Install

In my previous versions I used SquirrelMail as the web based mail access for roaming users.

Squirrelmail is mature and has lots of nice features but users tend to look down on it because it's ugly and looks and feels antiquated.

As a replacement, RoundCube looks promising: it looks good, has lots of features, is in active development and has a good user base and community.

Installing You'll need to make sure you hvae a recent version of PHP installed. CentOS 5.2 comes with an older version and to update to the minimum required I had to update it through unofficial packages.
Fortunately, there is a good repository from Jason Litka and to add it to our list of repositories is simple: rpm --import http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/RPM-GPG-KEY-jlitka

Then Add the following to a new repo file: /etc/yum.repos.d/utterramblings.repo [utterramblings] name=Jason's Utter Ramblings Repo baseurl=http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/EL$releasever/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/RPM-GPG-KEY-jlitka

Then just update your php to pull it from the new repository: yum update php

RoundCube also relies on some PHP modules that may not be present, namely FileInfo and DOM.
To install them:

yum php-pecl-fileinfo yum install php-xml

Once you're done, download the latest stable release of RoundCube and untar it in your web server's root: cd /www tar xzvf roundcubemail-0.2.1.tar.gz mv roundcubemail-0.2.1.tar.gz webmail cd webmail