[TriLUG] Squirrel Mail [pro/con]

[Jeff The Riffer]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Joel Ebel wrote:
> I use squirrelmail on several systems.  It's very easy to set up since it's 
> all just php.  Just extract it into your web server and run conf.pl to set it 
> up for your organization name, and domain.

If you're using CentOS it's just a matter of RPM installs. You'll need to 
fidget with /etc/httpd/conf.d/squirrelmail.conf, and look at 
/usr/share/doc/squirrelmail-*/ for info on making an appropriate secure 
cert.

We switched from Horde to Squirrelmail recently and I seriously like 
Squirrelmail more. I actually hardly use it, preferring PC-Pine, but a lot 
of friends love the webmail interface.

> Regarding spam filtering, I haven't looked at the spamcop plugin, but a 
> better solution would be to use spamassassin and process all your mail with 
> spamassassin before you read it.  How you do that depends on your MTA and 
> MDA.

What Joe said. Squirrelmail is really just a web interface to IMAP. 
There's add-ons to do spamfiltering. But what you probably want to do is 
install Spamassassin, do some training to build a bayesin database and 
then setup procmail rule(s) to send any Spamassassin tagged e-mail into a 
"probably-spam" folder. That way it doesn't crowd your Inbox.

Or you can look at Maia Mailguard:

 	http://www.maiamailguard.com/

which provides a web interface to Spamasassin, clamav and more. There was 
a presentation on it at the NC Sysadmin meeting some months ago, it was 
pretty good...


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