Hi Sjaak,
The fast replies you writing back is what I was waiting for. As I said I am a former Plesk Webhoster and I never got any replies from SW-Soft itself when I ask a "not stupid" question. This is great!!!
I’m glad to hear it. We’re doing the best we can to keep up. You’re doing your part well, too. Posting to the forums allows me to keep up with things easier, and it helps other users who might be having the same troubles. Email is hard for me to keep up with, because I get so many of the darned things.
About Usermin. Yes this is indeed a no-nonse webmail, but I don’t want the users do anything else but look at their mail, but as I look at a glance at it they also can do more things like file manager etc. I think I have to figure out how I can set those limits.
Yes, Usermin can be configured to disallow everything other than mail. It is pretty darned powerful, by default, though it shouldn’t allow normal users to do anything destructive (except maybe to their own home directory and data).
To lock users down to just mail and maybe a few others:
Browse to Webmin:Usermin Configuration
Click Available modules. Unselect everything except the modules you want to be accessible. Read Mail, obviously, is desired. Maybe Change Password is useful too. Mail Forwarding and Replies is also nice, and generally safe to leave in the hands of amateurs (it allows users to setup Vacation auto replies, forward to another mailbox, etc. without asking an admin to do it for them). Nothing else is really necessary, though depending on the skills of your users, you might want to allow others.
About Squirrelmail. Only the basic packages of this webmail programm is installed. So there are no “locale” files in it. Because this package of Squirrelmail is custommade, I don’t know how to integrate other languages like, for instance, the Dutch one.
We use the Squirrelmail tarball provided by the Squirrelmail developers–it is not custom at all. In fact, it downloads from their site, the moment you click “install”, and we never see it. The only thing “custom” you’ll need to know about it is where it gets installed…and that’s where you tell it to install within the domain home directory. So, if there are additional files you want to install, they should install normally. You might need to make sure ownership is correct, since we’ll be switching to running php under SuExec very soon.