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CHAPTER 4
Chapter 4: Providing Webmail
Access
You've
learned how to set up and configure an e-mail server in the previous
chapters. Now that your e-mail server is ready to serve, how will your
users access it? In this chapter, you will learn about the following:
• The benefits and disadvantages
of a webmail access solution
• The SquirrelMail webmail package
• Setting up and configuring SquirrelMail
• What SquirrelMail plug-ins are and what they can do
• How to make SquirrelMail more secure
- The Benefits
- Easy and Quick Access
- Easy Remote Access
- No Need to Maintain Clients
- User Interface to Configure Mail Server Options
- Possible Security Benefits
- The Disadvantages
- Performance
- Not Well Suited to Large E-mail Volumes
- Not Well Suited to E-mail Attachments
- Security Issues
The SquirrelMail Webmail Package
SquirrelMail Installation and Configuration
- Prerequisites to Installation
- Basic Requirements
- Apache
- PHP
- Configuration Requirements
- SquirrelMail Installation
- Configuring SquirrelMail
SquirrelMail Plug-Ins
- Installing Plug-Ins
- Example Plug-In Installation
- Download and Unpack the Plug-In
- Perform Custom Installation if Needed
- Enable the Plug-In in Conf.pl
- Useful Plug-Ins
- Compatibility Plug-In (v1.3)
- Secure login (v1.2)
- HTTP Auth (v1.1)
- Password Forget (v2.1)
- HTML Mail (v2.0)
- Quick Save (v2.0)
- G/PGP Encryption Plug-In (v2.0)
- Quota Usage (v1.3)
- Sent Confirmation (v1.6)
- Timeout User (v1.6)
- E-mail Footer (v0.4)
- Change Password (v2.7-1.4x)
- Address Book Import-Export (v0.8)
- Plugin Updates (v0.7)
Securing SquirrelMail
Summary
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Paperback,
295 pages
Released: July 2005
ISBN: 190481137X
Authors: Alistair McDonald,
Carl Taylor, Magnus Bäck, David Rusenko, Ralf
Hildebrandt, Patrick Ben Koetter |
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Introduction
1: Linux and E-Mail Basics
2: Setting Up Postfix
3: Incoming Mail with POP and IMAP
4: Providing Webmail Access 
Free Chapter
5: Securing Your Installation
6: Getting Started with Procmail
7: Advanced Procmail
8: Busting Spam with SpamAssassin
9: Antivirus Protection
10: Backing Up Your System
Index
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on PacktPub.com
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