OpenWebMail Email replacement for UebiMiau

Would you like to see OpenWebMail be a part of DirectAdmin?

  • Yes

    Votes: 21 67.7%

  • No

    Votes: 3 9.7%

  • Maybe.

    Votes: 7 22.6%
  • Total voters
    31
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Many people have mentioned that UebiMiau is no longer under daily development that it should be removed. In it's place I would like to see OpenWebmail be installed by DA (openwebmail.org). It's a CGI-BIN program rather than a frontend for IMAP and accesses the /var/mail files directly.

Currently I have OpenWebmail running on my servers under vhosts (www.modemnet.net/mail). This was achieved however with some effort and I have tested this successfully on RH3 Ent server. In order for DA to install the RPM/tar.gz files during an upgrade a couple changes need to be made in DA:

1.) Add OpenWebMail to the skins in the user/email pref area.

2.) Install 3 dependencies before OpenWebMail, (perl-CGI-2.81-88.4, perl-Compress-Zlib-1.21, perl-Text-Iconv-1.2).

3.) Create a ScriptAlias inside of httpd.conf for /mail.

4.) Create a SymLink of /home/user/domains/domain.com/public_html/cgi-bin/openwebmail -> /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail

5.) Fix/alter the way DA writes to the included http.conf files for each virtual host. Inside of those files DA has the following:

User username
Group username

This forces apache to run the /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/* scripts as that user rather than "nobody". suExec then gives out "500 Internal Server" errors because suExec is forcing the /var/www/cgi.../openwebmail.pl files to be ran by that specific user.


I have notified John and Mark at D.A. about this and they say while this won't be in the next release, they are interested in it. I have offered to test on all DA supported platforms to see what the result is, which if it works great on RH related OS's I don't see why it wouldn't work fully on others. I will test tho and report back to John.
 
I don't know about adding it by default with DirectAdmin, but having a way to make it a possible link within DirectAdmin for later installation would be preferable.
 
I would rather see Horde3 with all of the goodies. I have used openwebmail for years. It is a huge memory/resource hog. Besides I don't want all of my users running as nobody in apache just for webmail. It would seem easier to implement Horde.
 
Would anyone here be interested in installing OpenWebmail for me. If so please PM me.
 
It's quite an old thread :) Anyone wants OpenWebmail installation script now? Or maybe there are requests for any other webmail application?
 
It needs PHP with IMAP support, so I think firstly PHP needs to have IMAP support by default :) Don't you think so?
 
Removal of Old Webmail Apps.
First of all, I would like to suggest that old established webmail clients not be removed but may 'depreciated' so that servers with users still using those clients don't have to disrupt their users.

An option in the user account setup where you can choose which of the installed webmail applications the account has access to. That way you can channel your customers into using the applications that you plan to support longterm and eventually complete drop those that you don't.

Additional Webmail Apps
May I also suggest that some people looking for DA type software, will be considering whether their preferred choise of webmail apps are installed by default. By dropping a webmail application, you will lose some sales of DA because some buyers will have been looking for it (if only to allow their existing customers to continue to use it).

So why not just leave it in place until it really is no longer used? If you implement the idea of selecting available mail apps (above) you can always make it unselected by default?

Add OpenWebMail?
Yeah, why not? and any other production ready web mail clients. This will make DA attractive to people looking for those applications.

The most important thing I see here is the option to deny access to certain accounts and to be able to set the default policy for this.

Regards,

pete
 
This reply is just a note to point out that the only non IMAP email client ever offered with DirectAdmin was the UebiMiau client (the original webmail client from the earliest days of DirectAdmin. Since all the others are IMAP clients they may be used interchangeably by users.

Jeff
 
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