Installation of Roundcube - Help

Virtualmin
1

Hi there people,
I’m currently trying to install a local copy of Roundcube Mail.
I’ve uploaded all the files to my server and am now having a bit of difficulty setting it up.

When filling out the details for the configuration it asks for a few things:
default_host - what should i put in here? “http://localhost”? or something else?

smtp_server - again “http://localhost”? or my domain? the thing here is that i want my clients to use this and it’s part of my TLD, webmail.tld.com. if i use my domain and smtp login details, will that effect my clients when sending emails?

thanks for your help in advanced!
Ashley

2

just localhost for both parameters.

3

thanks for the help.
i thought that might be the case, but its always good to double check.

now, how can i make it so that my clients can log on via username@domain.tld? is that possible?

Thanks

Ashley

4

Check out howtoforge.com, there is a how-to on CentOS 5 including Virtualmin and Roundcube there. So you know how configure roundcube (I use it myself also).

5

well, i believe since roundcube 0.3.0 you can write a plugin for that.
however, i did it the dirty way and hacked index.php adding lines like these before // try to log in:

if (!empty($_POST['_user'])) {
	if (strpos($_POST['_user'], '@')) {
		// user@domain.tld
		$explode = explode('@', $_POST['_user']);
		$_POST['_user'] = sprintf("%s_%s", $explode[1], $explode[0]);
	}
}

(ok the code is somehow screwed up here… the em tags mean underscore _)
it basically converts the user@domain.tld format into domain.tld_user which is the user format i have. yours might be different, depending on how you configured virtualmin.

6

I saw this thread and thought I should mention that I was getting tons of people trying to access /roundcube and /webmail on my server and to me that means there is or was a pretty big security vulnerability in it. Does anyone know if it is still there? Because it does look pretty sweet.

7

there was one, yes, but it was fixed several months ago

8

Hey, sorry for the late reply.

I tried thunderbird this morning for IMAP email connecting to the same account as the one i use to look through roundcube.

I set the options in thunderbird to remove the emails immediately with a cleanup on exit (assuming that means any items marked for deletion will actually be removed from the server).

I logged into both RC and TB at the same time so i could see whats going on. I deleted an email in TB and refreshed the page in RC. The email I had deleted in TB was greyed out out in RC. I then closed TB and refreshed the page again in RC. The email that i had deleted in Tb had now been completely removed from the list.

So it would seem that this is a RC bug? Or do you think I could have misconfigured it during setup?

Thanks again
Ashley

9

This is not a bug, this is how IMAP works.

When you delete an email in a local email client such as thunderbird, it will not actually be removed from the server until the client’s connection with the server is disconnected. It will instead have a flag set on the end of the name, “T”, if I recall correctly.

10

Ah, I just realised posted this in the completely wrong thread.
My bad.
Ashley