SquirrelMail

Hi,

I want to transfert squirrelmail accounts to a new server, and have 
difficulties to know what exactly
I need to transfert from the first squirrelmail implementation. What do 
I have to recopy from the old
server to the new one to get accounts readable to the new system?

Thanks for your help.

Ludovic Lelardeux

Hongwei Li wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have squirrelmail-1.4.0-1 installed on our server RedHat FC1 linux, and
>I'm testing squirrelmail-1.4.3a-6.FC3 on a FC3 linux server.  Both are
>working without big problems so far.  I haven't added any new plugin
>except the default ones when I install sm 1.4.3.  I set plain files for
>user preference, addressbook, etc., no database used.  So, the users'
>files are at /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs/ as .abook, .sig, .2004.cal, etc.
>
>If a user on fc3 logs in sm, and creates addressbook, signature, calendar,
>etc. there is no problem.  After that, the system root can edit the user's
>.abook etc. and copy/paste his abook file from his account in fc1 to the
>new system fc3.  Then, the user will have all of his previous
>information/data in the new sm 1.4.3 on fc3 system.
>
>However, if a user does not create his .abook, .cal, etc. first, but the
>root first transfers those files from fc1 sm-1.4.0 to fc3 sm-1.4.3 or
>creates those files for a user, and sets the owner/group and permission as
>apache.apache, 644 as they were created by the user from sm, the problem
>comes: the uer cannot edit any of his .abook, .cal, etc. files.  He always
>gets error: The file is read-only.
>
>Also, even if he creates those files first, but the root simply transfers
>files (not edit them) from sm-1.4.0 to sm-1.4.3 and overwrite them, the
>user will also get read-only error.
>
>e.g.:
># ls -l /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs/
>total 52
>lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root    41 Dec 17 05:40 default_pref ->
>../../../../etc/squirrelmail/default_pref
>-rw-r--r--  1 apache apache  33 Jan  4 14:26 tsu.abook
>-rw-------  1 apache apache 418 Jan  4 14:11 tsu.pref
>-rw-r--r--  1 apache apache  33 Jan  4 13:52 msnet.abook
>-rw-------  1 apache apache 332 Jan  4 13:52 msnet.pref
>...
>
>User msnet can edit his .abook, but tsu cannot even the two files have
>exact the same permission and ownership.  The reason is that msnet creates
>his .abook through his sm session, but tsu.abook was created by the root,
>then changed the owner/mode.
>
>I am going to swith our server from fc1 to fc3 and I need to transfer all
>user information/data to the new system.  Since we have hundreds of users,
>it is not good to ask every user to log in to the new sm and create an
>empty address book, calendar etc. first, then the root edits those files
>(thousand?) manually.  I wonder if I missed something or did something
>wrong.  Can somebody give me help?
>
>I apprecaite all help!
>
>Hongwei Li
>
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Hello everybody,

Is there a roadmap about how to migrate an existing webmail (squirrel) to
a new server keeping the existing files and users configuration?
I'm a little bit confuse about what to keep and what to copy to the new 
server
in order to get the same webmail but hosted on to a new server.

Hoping my question is clear enough.

Best Regards,

Ludovic Lelardeux

Greeting

Are there any efforts to create a squirrelmail full xhtml 1.1 + css w3c 
valid?

I was needing to change the look of squirrel and i was thinking on doing 
that.

in squirrelmail's roadmap, is projected an upgrade from html?

thanks in advance

Luis Matos

> Hello everybody,
>
> Is there a roadmap about how to migrate an existing webmail (squirrel) to
> a new server keeping the existing files and users configuration?
> I'm a little bit confuse about what to keep and what to copy to the new
> server
> in order to get the same webmail but hosted on to a new server.
>
> Hoping my question is clear enough.

SquirrelMail stores all configuration in config/config.php file. Copy it.

User preferences and address books are stored in:
a) data directory
b) database
c) database and data directory
d) even when you store pref and address books in database, some plugins
store user data in data directory

Due to modular structure of interface, you might have different plugins
installed in plugins/ directory. Copy plugins that are not included in
squirrelmail base package.

Some plugins depend on different squirrelmail versions. Check them.
Some plugins might use external programs.
Some plugins hardcode path to squirrelmail config into used external
programs.

Emails are not stored in squirrelmail, they are stored in IMAP server.
Location of this data depends on your email setup.

If you did some custom modifications to squirrelmail - compare your
install with vanilla squirrelmail install.

SquirrelMail packages include document called UPGRADE. Take a look at it.
-- 
Tomas

> Are there any efforts to create a squirrelmail full xhtml 1.1 + css w3c 
> valid?
> 
> I was needing to change the look of squirrel and i was thinking on doing 
> that.
> 
> in squirrelmail's roadmap, is projected an upgrade from html?

Peruse the list archives (especially the devel list) and you'll see that 
there is work being done with css additions, and more substantial 
changes being made toward a templating system.  Nothing that is 
short-term, however.

  -paul

p dont think wrote:

>> Are there any efforts to create a squirrelmail full xhtml 1.1 + css 
>> w3c valid?
>>
>> I was needing to change the look of squirrel and i was thinking on 
>> doing that.
>>
>> in squirrelmail's roadmap, is projected an upgrade from html?
>
>
> Peruse the list archives (especially the devel list) and you'll see 
> that there is work being done with css additions, and more substantial 
> changes being made toward a templating system.  Nothing that is 
> short-term, however.
>
>  -paul
>
I didn't find the developpers list ... i have the squirrelmail 1.4.3 
(from) about 60 to 70% already moved do valid w3c xhtml 1.1 + css 
stylesheets .

The thing is that is using still, tables intead of div's .
The left_main.php results are almost done .
The right_main.php results are about 10% .
Needs to customize message errors settings and some especific changes.

i am doing this in debian sarge source code, for easy packaging.

regards

> p dont think wrote:
>
>>> Are there any efforts to create a squirrelmail full xhtml 1.1 + css
>>> w3c valid?
>>>
>>> I was needing to change the look of squirrel and i was thinking on
>>> doing that.
>>>
>>> in squirrelmail's roadmap, is projected an upgrade from html?
>>
>>
>> Peruse the list archives (especially the devel list) and you'll see
>> that there is work being done with css additions, and more substantial
>> changes being made toward a templating system.  Nothing that is
>> short-term, however.
>>
>>  -paul
>>
> I didn't find the developpers list ...

Look on the web site where the mailing lists are described.

> i have the squirrelmail 1.4.3
> (from) about 60 to 70% already moved do valid w3c xhtml 1.1 + css
> stylesheets .

Send patches (unified diff) against latest cvs if you want us to take a
look at anything for inclusion into the core.

> The thing is that is using still, tables intead of div's .
> The left_main.php results are almost done .
> The right_main.php results are about 10% .
> Needs to customize message errors settings and some especific changes.
>
> i am doing this in debian sarge source code, for easy packaging.
>
> regards
>