||<>|| = Introduction = Webmail is software which allows you to view email from any computer, anywhere in the world, through your web browser. OpenWebMail is a simple, fast and popular webmail package. The website is [[http://openwebmail.org/|here]]. This guide will enable you to setup webmail on your own server, for use either within your home network, or outside. = Preparation = In order to run, you need to first set up a number of things: * A working Mail Transfer Engine, see MailServer = Installation = OpenWebMail depended on Perl module. If you did not install Perl, install Perl first: {{{ sudo apt-get install perl }}} Additional packages that are required after the above is installed, can be found in the Synaptic Package Manager. Search for and install the following if not previously installed: {{{ libauthen-pam-perl (0.16-1.1) libconvert-asn1-perl (0.22-1) libmd5-perl (2.03-1) libnet-ldap-perl (1:0.39-lubuntul) perl-suid (5.10.0-19ubuntu1.1) wwwconfig-common (0.2.1) libpg-perl (1:2.1.1-4) }}} The OpenWebmail package is dependent on these packages and they must be installed or will result in a broken package. OpenWebMail is not currently in the [[Repositories/Ubuntu|Ubuntu repositories]]. You can get the latest deb package at http://openwebmail.org/openwebmail/download/debian/. Install it with: {{{ sudo dpkg -i }}} For example, at the time of this writing, the latest version is 2.53-2: {{{ sudo dpkg -i owm2.53-2.deb }}} = Configuration = OpenWebMail is ready to be used! Every user account on the server has an email account with the same username/password. To add more email users, simply create more users on the system. make default link for openwebmail {{{ sudo rm /var/www/openwebmail/index.html sudo ln -s /var/www/openwebmail/redirect.html /var/www/openwebmail/index.html }}} = Check it works! = Open a webbrowser, and go to the address {{{http://localhost/openwebmail}}}. Change {{{localhost}}} for the address of your server. You should see the OpenWebMail login box!