Comments on Changing From SquirrelMail To Atmail Open With ISPConfig 3

it seems that the reasons that debian didn't package atmail open source edition, were very serious :

 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531075

 i thought about testing it, but after this, i'll probably wont.. 

Hai,

please remember, if you use "apt-get remove --purge squirrelmail"

then the apache setting to the squirrelmail folder ( /usr/share/squirrelmail )
will be gone also.

a tip is,

copy the apache.conf file in the squirrelmail folder, and edit that file to you needs.

copy it in /etc/apache/conf.d/ (name it atmail.conf )

Now you can put atmail also in /var/www/atmail but dont forget to edit the conf file.

Hi there.

Thanks for your comment and tips for improving the tutorial, greatly appreciated!

I wrote this tutorial only for people who may want to find out how it could be done should they wish to install Atmail Open with ISPConfig.

To summarise anon's comment. If you automatically update your server; Squirrelmail may automatically update and replace the Atmail open files with it's own.

Naturally this would be undersirable if you have followed this tutorial so as an alternative to STEP 2 in this tutorial you may want to REMOVE Squirrelmail from your system completely by using the folliwing commands.

apt-get remove squirrelmail

then...

apt-get remove --purge squirrelmail

Again thank you for your advice and feedback!

Hi, Why are you making a backup of squirrelmail and why are you using the squirrelmail folder.
IF squirrelmail is upgraded from debian, it wil write the new files in squirrelmail folder again.
better is to remove the squirremail from the system. and leave the settings
use apt-get  remove squirrelmail  and nog apt-get remove --purge squirrelmail.

Also why would you remove a maintained packaged by debian for a not maintained package.

This wil make you system less secure.

Louis

I would stay far away from ATMail.  Their commodity product has caused them to do some very unethical business practices and they do not stand behind their product.  I speak from first hand dealing with them on a project.