Re: Web mail

#1 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 06:51 AM

On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 01:29:34PM -0700, smith wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:22:13 -0500, Eric Johnson wrote
> > Which web mail package is easiest to install and use on
> > OpenBSD? Are there any gaping security holes?
> >
> > Eric Johnson
>
> Someone posted a question about a week or two ago for a chrooted web-based
> email system. Nick Holland (I think) wrote how if you really understood
> programming, you would know how extremely difficult implementing a chrooted
> web-based email system really is. (This is my words, Nick probably meant or
> said something else entirely but that's what I got out of it even if I'm
> mistaken.)
>
> Anyways Nick suggested Openwebmail. I tried it and I would say without a
> doubt it's the easiest to install. It was hard to figure it out for me but
> after I did, I said to myself, that was easy.
>
> Here's what you do:
>
> Get sendmail running and spamd (most of this requires only uncommenting lines
> in several configuration files). Now you have a spam fighting MTA.
>
> Use pkg_add openwebmail to install it. This will install all the
> dependencies. Read the readme.txt file on openwebmail's website. It shows
> how to change the rights (chmod) of a few files in
> /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/*. These same files are owned by user 276 for
> some reason, you need to change the owner to the right user but I forget which
> (I think root). Now read man ssl to get httpd running with with https. Add
> httpd_flags="-u -DSSL". Now go into /var/www/conf/httpd.conf and modify it so
> that all http request go to https. This is in the virtual table section.
> Then reboot.
>
> The beauty is this: I don't need pop or imap or mysql or php or python or ruby
> installed. All I need is a base openbsd system and openwebmail (using pkg_add).
>
> You may want to read man starttls too so that your MTA can encrypt email to
> any MTA that understands and uses starttls.
>
> One other guy posted that openwebmail doesn't support maildir. Maildir is
> supposedly better, but with valid reasons. Even though those reasons sound
> good I haven't come across any reasons that say mbox should not be used or is
> not capable of handling a significant amount of users. Sendmail with mbox has
> been around handling thousands of users in universities and corporations way
> before qmail and postfix came about so sendmail and mbox should be more than
> adequate. One thing I've read that's a disadvantage to maildir is that you
> can run out of inodes and that's bad when it happens. Keep in mind, I'm no
> big times email administrator so take this with a grain of salt but this has
> been my experience and research so far. I'd be glad to hear from some people
> how I'm wrong on this. I would find it interesting.
>

jaut a comment concerning chrooted webmail. Concerning "hastymail" I found the following:

http://hastymail.sourceforge.net/install.php

go to paragraph #5

Thanks

George

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