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A quick and easy installation will have you up and running with a
Maildir-base mail system, supplemented with IMAP access, and a
web-based email client.
Configure exim4
to deliver email to a user's Maildir
folder in their home directory. This requires editting the exim4
config file (either /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template or
/etc/exim4/conf.d/main/01_exim4-config_listmacrosdefs,
depending on whether your confiration is in one file or many) to set:
LOCAL_DELIVERY=maildir_home
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Exim4
creates the approriate Maildir folder and
structure under the user's accounts as required. See
Section 29.2.1 for more details on using exim.
Next, install courier-imap. This will then set up a
server (on port 143) to deliver IMAP. Using mutt the
server is imap://localhost/. For a secure IMAP server install
courier-imap-ssl
(which then uses port 993) and to access
from mutt use imaps://localhost:993/inbox. If the
IMAP server is only being used on a small local network (like at home)
with access to it provided through a web mail tool (like
squirrelmail) through a secure web server (using https,
such as apache-ssl), then courier-imap-ssl
is
probably not required (since you would access the
squirrelmail
server through https, not your imap server)!
Now install squirrelmail
and you can then log in to your
IMAP server from any web browser
(https://localhost/squirrelmail). Be sure that your
apache-ssl server has index.php on it's list of
DirectoryIndex files in /etc/apache-ssl/httpd.conf.
You may also need to have some PHP packages installed, in particular
php4-cgi. If the INBOX link of the SuirrelMail page is
not active, edit /etc/squirrelmail/config.php to set:
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