TIPS on OpenWebmail
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by Thomas Chung (tchung.AT.openwebmail.org)
last updated: 2015.01.19

Tip #1)
After you've installed OpenWebmail package, you've noticed that the "From" email address is
"user@www.mydomain.com" instead of "user@mydomain.com"!! How to fix it?

1. Go to preferences and click on [Edit Froms] button.
2. Type user's realname and preferred email address such as "user@mydomain.com" and click on [Add/Modify] button
3. Click on [Back to User Preferences] button 
4. Choose your preferred email address from "From" drop-down field
5. Scroll down and click on [Save] button.

Now whenever you login, you will see your preferred email address by default!


If you're using name-based virtual hosting, copy the default openwebmail.conf to sites.conf/www.mydomain.com
and edit "domainnames" to your domain name such as "mydomain.com" 

Now whenever you create a new user, the new user will have "newuser@mydomain.com" instead of "newuser@www.mydomain.com"
for "From" email by default 

Tip #2)
If you don't see "Message Arrived" or "Message Sent" popup windows, check following option in your Mozilla.

Edit > Preferences > Privacy & Security > Uncheck "Block unrequested popup windows"

If you want to block all popup windows including Open Webmail popup windows, do the opposite.

Edit > Preferences > Privacy & Security > Check "Block unrequested popup windows"


Tip #3)
How to backup mailbox for openwebmail to move to a new server?
$ cd /home/tchung
$ tar zcvf tchung-owm.tar.gz mailbox .openwebmail

Once copying the mailbox backup (tchung-owm.tar.gz) to new server, you can extract:
$ cd /home/tchung
$ tar zxvf tchung-owm.tar.gz

If this is new OS Type, you may need to rebuild index db:
$ cd /home/tchung/.openwebmail
$ rm -rf db
$ /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail-tool.pl --index tchung

If you see following error when you click on "Pref" button
"Couldn't get read lock on db /home/tchung/.openwebmail/webmail/filter.ruledb"
simply delete filter.ruledb.* files and let openwebmail recreate them.
# /home/tchung/.openwebmail/webmail
$ rm filter.ruledb.*

!!!WARNING!!!
If you didn't clean up your INBOX from openwebmail, make sure to copy the mail spool:
$ cd /var/spool/mail
$ tar zcvf tchung-spool.tar.gz tchung

Copy the spool backup (tchung-spool.tar.gz) to new server, then you can extract:
$ cd /var/spool/mail
$ tar zxvf tchung-spool.tar.tz