How to install Open Webmail on Red Hat Linux 7.3 ================================================ By Thomas Chung (tchung AT openwebmail.org) Last Updated 2003-06-15 pre-requisites: apache-1.3.23-11.i386.rpm and httpd service is running sendmail-8.11.6-15.i386.rpm and sendmail service is running 1. install all perl rpm packages if you haven't installed yet. 2. install the latest openwebmail rpm build from daily build directory 3. change /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/openwebmail.conf to dbm_ext .db dbmopen_ext none dbmopen_haslock no 4. initialize openwebmail database using openwebmail-tool.pl cd /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail ./openwebmail-tool.pl --init 5. create a user account if not created one yet 6. login to openwebmail using a user account http://localhost.localdomain/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail.pl For Virtual Hosting Domains =========================== If you are hosting multiple domains with virtualHost directive, add following lines in httpd.conf to access openwebmail login screen for each domain. ex) http://domain.com/webmail # Open Webmail ScriptAlias, Alias ScriptAlias /webmail "/var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail.pl" Alias /data "/var/www/data" Don't forget to restart httpd.