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Anybody use SquirrelMail that can help?

Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:36 pm
by Bill H
I had Squirrel mail installed at one time but when I was moved to a new server by my host it quit working. Something about file writing issues. I do a fair amount of PHP but server technology is beyond me and the issue was never resolved. So I quit using webmail and am using Mailwasher but I hate it.

So I'm attempting to use Squirrel on another server (a site I host for my homeowners assn) to access the mail on my server, without knowing if that will actually work. I've inquired several places, including the SqMail site, but have gotten no input so I'm just goint to try it so see what I can do. I have installed it on the other server but it wants a username and password. I don't recall what I was using and cannot find any file that can be deleted to start new or any file that contains a password. So that is not working out very well at this point.

I really would like to use webmail, but the server I am on simply does not allow PHP to write to files and they don't seem to have a solution to that. (Applications that work fine on other hosts fail on this server.) I rather intensly dislike Mailwasher and cannot use it from remote locations in any case. I would like to be able to check mail when I'm travelling without having to set up a email account on the computer that I'm using in, for instance, a local Kinko's.

There are reasons why I cannot simply move to another host at this point, so can anyone suggest how I might go about setting up a webmail on server A to access my email on server B from wherever I might be at any time?

(Sorry for the lengthy post, but...)

Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:44 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Squirell Mail is notoriously difficult to install so don't worry you're not alone. I bet you thought I was going to say something useful :P I've never installed it myself but I'm comfortable with E-Mail stuff and with installing tools on servers (be it web apps or actual linux services) so if you'd like somebody else to give it a shot I'll volunteer an hour of my time tomorrow ;)

Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:22 pm
by califdon
I used to use squirrelmail, and it worked fine for a couple of years. When I recently upgraded my server, one of the things I did was research alternatives and I found this one that I now use and like even better:

http://roundcube.net/

Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:51 pm
by Bill H
I saw that one too, and it looked interesting. But installing it is way over my head. I cannot even get it to run at all, much less connect and read any emails.

I am, admittedly, a complete idiot when it comes to servers and server issues.

I told you I was dumb

Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:21 am
by Bill H
The username and password aren't in any file, it uses the ones from the email account.

Duh. As my father used to say when he'd done something like that:
Duh. I've got a brother in Harvard. Duh. They have him in a jar. He has two heads. Yuk, Yuk, yuk.
Dad was, in fact, a colonel in the Air Force, a physician, and an Episcopal priest.

Anyway, SquirrelMail does work on server B to retrieve email on server A.