Horde
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Horde is a mail user agent that allows you to set up your own webmail service.
Install it
Here is an example how to install it. It uses apache2 on SUSE Linux 11.2, other combinations should work same or similar. It installs horde on the local host 127.0.0.1.
- set up an apache web server with SUSE Linux
- install some packAges and restart the web server
yast -i php5-gettext php5-imap /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
- set up a mail server
- set up an imap server
- visit http://www.horde.org and find the latest stable release to download
- download it into the web server's directory
cd /srv/www/htdocs wget http://ftp.horde.org/pub/horde-webmail/horde-webmail-1.2.5.tar.gz
- unpack it
tar xvzf horde-webmail-1.2.5.tar.gz
- change the folder name to horde
mv horde-webmail-1.2.5 horde
- activate horde's configuration
tweedleburg:/srv/www/htdocs/horde/config # cp conf.php.dist conf.php
- check horde's self-test: surf to http://127.0.0.1/horde/test.php
- configure horde
tweedleburg:/srv/www/htdocs/horde # php scripts/setup.php Horde Groupware Webmail Edition Configuration Menu (0) Exit (1) Configure database settings (2) Create database or tables (3) Configure administrator settings (4) Update PEAR for a new or changed location (5) Update from an older Horde Groupware Webmail Edition version
- you will need to execute 1, 2, 3 and 0.
See also
- squirrelmail - a competitor
- webmail software - other software for this
- http://www.horde.org/
- How to set up horde on SUSE 10.3