RoundCube

RoundCube is a mail user agent that is running as webmail service. RoundCube is an upcoming webmail option featuring Ajax' advanced usability.

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 RoundCube 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 php5-mcrypt php5-pear
pear install mdb2
pear install Net_SMTP
pear install Mail_mime
pear install MDB2_Driver_mysql
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

• set up a mail server
• set up an imap server
• visit http://www.roundcube.net and find the latest stable release to download
• download it into the web server's directory

cd /srv/www/htdocs
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/roundcubemail/roundcubemail-dependent/0.3.1/roundcubemail-0.3.1-dep.tar.gz?use_mirror=heanet

• unpack it

tar xvzf roundcubemail-0.3.1-dep.tar.gz

• change the folder name to horde

mv roundcubemail-0.3.1-dep roundcube

• configure roundcube: surf to http://127.0.0.1/roundcube/installer

See also

• webmail software - other software for this

External links

• http://www.roundcube.net/