Now for the best webmail that I’ve found to date. it’s called Claros Intouch2:

http://www.claros.org/web/home.do

The instructions on their site is straight forward enough. They have a demo on their website.

Install:

urpmi java java-sdk tomcat5

Grab Claros Intouch2 2.2 beta and extract the contents to a temporary directory.

Copy the intouch2.war file to /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps

If Tomcat5 isn’t currently running, start it. Service tomcat5 start

Tomcat will extract the contents of the .war file into a subdirectory called intouch2

Create a webdisk directory within the intouch2 directory and chown tomcat5:tomcat5 webdisk

cd /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/intouch2/WEB-INF/config

With your favorite editor, edit the config.xml

Change the appropriate settings for your mail server

Two things to note:

Make sure the Match your directories that are created with maildirmake. I called mine Junk, Sent, Drafts and Trash so they match my current directories.

The default connection string for mysql didn’t work for me, I had to use the following to get it to work:

jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/intouch2?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf-8

Once the changes have been made, you can restart tomcat5.

Visiting the http://whateverdomain:8080/intouch2 should get you a login screen.

I stole this from HowToForge:

Additional applications needed:

courier-authlib
cyrus-sasl
libsasl2
libsasl2-devel
libsasl2-plug-plain
libsasl2-plug-anonymous
libsasl2-plug-crammd5
libsasl2-plug-digestmd5
libsasl2-plug-gssapi
libsasl2-plug-login

cd /etc/postfix

openssl req -new -outform PEM -out smtpd.cert -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout smtpd.key -keyform PEM -days 3650 -x509

(Fill out the appropriate fields)

Now we need to create the .pem

cat smtpd.cert smtpd.key >courier.pem

Then copy the courier.pem into the /etc/courier directory

[postfix config]

{main.cnf}

smtpd_use_tls = yes
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/smtpd.cert
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/smtpd.key

permit_sasl_authenticated

[courier config]

{imapd-ssl}

TLS_CERTFILE=/etc/courier/courier.pem

{pop3d-ssl}

TLS_CERTFILE=/etc/courier/courier.pem

[sasl2]

cd /etc/sasl2

{smtpd.conf}

pwcheck_method: authdaemond
log_level: 5
mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN
authdaemond_path:/var/lib/authdaemon/socket

I’m just moving over from eXtremail and trying to figure how to get a full featured mail server. I’ll be tackling SSL/TLS next.