Hello, I'm a new user of ML Server and I'd like to know how I can install a webmail such as Roundcube.

I've installed the 0.8RC of RoundCube onto a new Mac Mini Server with 10.8/server.

The SQL config was simple, just follow the INSTALL instructions.

I prefer Postgres, and it is installed with ML, but currently appears to have a problem, so use MySQL. Issue with Postgres appears to be database is configured with different field lengths than the app is producing.

What problems did you see with PostgreSQL and RoundCube? I just set up RoundCube 0.8.0 with PostgreSQL on a test system and it seems to be working. At least it's working for my one user sending a couple of emails to himself. I created my test database and user with:

sudo -u _postgres psql postgres -c "create database roundcubemail_db"

sudo -u _postgres psql postgres -c "create user roundcubemail_user with password 'blahblah'"

sudo -u _postgres psql postgres -c "grant all privileges on database roundcubemail_db to roundcubemail_user"

The rest of the configuration was mostly straightforward.

There was one part that was not so easy, though. It might not be necessary in all cases, or maybe it was because I misconfigured something somewhere, but in order to log into RoundCube, I had to configure mail to allow plain text logins and RoundCube to also log in with plain text. Even though the web server itself is HTTPS and the web server and mail server are the same system, l wouldn't be comfortable leaving it configured this way on a production server. The default CRAM-MD5 method was being used by RoundCube and even though it was enabled in dovecot, authentication was failing. I didn't see the option to set plain text login in RoundCube's installer webpages, so I had to manually edit it in config/main.inc.php:

$rcmail_config['imap_auth_type'] = PLAIN;

Hi - see https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4153247

for step by step instructions!

You need to change the main.inc.php file in the config directory to allow the installer to run by changing $rcmail_config['enable_installer'] = false to $rcmail_config['enable_installer'] = true

Also you need to put the webmail folder somewhere within your /Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default folder if you have not made a seperate site for your webmail in Server.app.

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For the not OK messages, please open up terminal and enter the following:

sudo chown -R _www temp

sudo chown -R _www logs

You need to grant access to the users that are supposed to be mail enabled in the server.app by right clicking the user name in the Users section and choosing the Edit access to services... dropdown menu item and then marking Mail as selected.

IMAP and SMTP will start when you've switched the Mail server to ON, simple... You just need to enable port forwarding on your router for TCP ports 25 for SMTP, 143 for IMAP or 933 for Secure IMAP and port 587 (Submission) so your external users can deliver mail to be forwarded to another domain.

For secure IMAP you need to have an SSL certificate set and maybe your ISP has port 25 blocked, which would mean maybe your ISP has a relay host that you can use, which you then need to set in server.app by checking the option Relay mail... In that case you need to specify the outgoing relay server next to it. On the other hand you would then need to specify the incomming mail relay host in your DNS with a bigger preference than your own mail server, like so:

Name Preference Server

@ 10 yourserver.domain.com

@ 20 relayhost.isp.com

Sorry for the late response and my unclear message, you need to execute those commands in the directory where you have unpacked the roundcube installation, so when you've put the roundcube folder in /usr/local/ go to that folder by issuing in terminal:

cd /usr/local/

sudo chown -R _www temp

sudo chown -R _www logs

This is how to set up the database in PostgreSQL:

To use Roundcube with PostgreSQL support you have to follow these

simple steps, which have to be done as the postgres system user (or

which ever is the database superuser):

$ createuser roundcube

$ createdb -O roundcube -E UNICODE roundcubemail

$ psql roundcubemail

roundcubemail =# ALTER USER roundcube WITH PASSWORD 'the_new_password';

roundcubemail =# \c - roundcube

roundcubemail => \i SQL/postgres.initial.sql

After that please update your main.inc.php file through the installer by place the resulting file in the config directory.