CSET 4250 Final Presentation

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CSET 4250 FinKevin Gardner


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SquirrelMail

SquirrelMail is an open source web-bas

email application and an IMAP server.

webmail front end is written in PHP wh

IMAP server is written in C, and as sucsupported on Unix, Linux, OS X, and

Windows.


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History

The initial release was December 14, 1

Nathan and Luke Ehresman. Since the

at version 1.4.22, which was released

12, 2011. The IMAP server was releasDave McMurtie in 2002 and was adop

the SquirrelMail team in 2010. Their w

is www.squirrelmail.org


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Risks

The largest risk was with version 1.4.14

was never released due to a spammer

sending an email asking SquirrelMail u

sign into a phishing page to download 1.4.14 which didnt exist at the time. So

developers skipped that version numb

went to 1.4.15.


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Installation

SquirrelMail requires both PHP and an IM

server to be installed, so something like D

is acceptable. After those are installed, in

and configuring SquirrelMail is fairly simpprovided the settings for the IMAP service

configured and correct. The official

documentation is at

http://squirrelmail.org/docs/admin/admin-


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Installation Contd

The steps for installation included disab

Sendmail and using Postfix, installing

Dovecot and PHP, and then SquirrelM

Postfix becomes the MTA, Dovecot theserver, PHP and SquirrelMail for the w

mail.


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Configuration

Configuring SquirrelMail includes inputt

correct server settings, creating aliase

Apache, and following the web interfac

From there, several plug-ins exist suchspell checker that can be added to enh

SquirrelMail.


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Configuration Contd

To get SquirrelMail to play nicely with A

aliases need to be made. For exampleAlias /squirrelmail /usr/local/squirrelmail/www

Options NoneAllowOverride None

DirectoryIndex index.php

Order Allow,Deny

Allow from all


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How It Works

SquirrelMail is a web-based application

you can go to

www.mydomain.com/squirrelmail for in

to get to the login screen. From there, functions like many other programs. Th

are contacts, a calendar, folders, and a

search function, which are standard fe


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How It Works Contd

This is h

interfac

As you c

it is sim

loo

enough


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Problems

I had some serious problem during my

installation of SquirrelMail. After config

Postfix and Dovecot, I preceded to ins

SquirrelMail, and during that process,something happened with Apache to b

resulting in it not recognizing any of my

commands, effectively killing my whole

server.


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Problems Contd

Apache is caught in looking for a Squirr

folder in a file path that doesnt exist, a

even after copying the SquirrelMail fold

where Apache is looking, it still doesnI even wiped out the httpd.conf file and

the default backup, and that doesnt lik

either.


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Problems Contd


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Problems Contd

So, at the end of the day, SquirrelMail dwork, Apache doesnt work, and I can

to start either. The options I have inclu

removing SquirrelMail, rebuilding Apacand removing everything until I can ge

working again.

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