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SquirrelMail is a web based email (webmail) client. It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no JavaScript required) for maximum compatibility across browsers. SquirrelMail is Open Source.

SquirrelMail webmail uses a plugin architecture to accommodate additional features around the core application, and over 200 plugins are available on the SquirrelMail website. SquirrelMail has all the functionality of a desktop email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation, all in a web based email platform.

Install SquirrelMail

Postfix, Dovecot and SquirrelMail in CentOS/RHEL/Scientific Linux 6.3

Redhat, Fedora, CentOS

Install the EPEL Repository to install SquirrelMail package.

Follow the instructions in: EPEL Repository

Now install squirrelmail

yum install squirrelmail

Depending on how you structured your Apache2 html documents, and where your document root is, you may have to move stuff around. The default install path for SquirrelMail is

/usr/share/squirrelmail

With some configurations files in

/etc/squirrelmail
httpd/conf.d/squirrelmail.conf
cron.daily/squirrelmail.cron

Squirrelmail can be configured with a command line utility. It is located in squirrelmail/config and called conf.pl

config/conf.pl

It will be necessary to add a directory alias to your Apache2 configuration file.

Alias /squirrelmail /usr/share/squirrelmail
<Directory /usr/share/squirrelmail>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    RewriteEngine On
    AllowOverride All
    DirectoryIndex index.php
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

references and sources

• Setup Mail Server using Postfix, Dovecot and SquirrelMail in CentOS/RHEL/Scientific Linux 6.3 step by step by Senthilkumar P