Roundcube
Roundcube is a full-featured, PHP web-based mail client.
Installation
Install roundcubemail from the official repositories. Further you will need a database (e.g. MariaDB) and a web server with PHP-support (this guide will assume the Apache HTTP Server).
Since 1.1.0 roundcube needs iconv and/or mbstring PHP extensions.
Configuration
MariaDB
Here's an example on how you could setup a database for Roundcube with MariaDB called roundcubemail
for the user roundcube
identified by the password password
:
CREATE DATABASE roundcubemail; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON roundcubemail.* TO 'roundcube'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
For any database you use, you will need to initialize the roundcubemail database tables. Here is an example of how to do this with MariaDB:
mysql -u root -p roundcubemail < /usr/share/webapps/roundcubemail/SQL/mysql.initial.sql
Roundcube
Copy the example configuration file and adjust it to your configuration:
cp /etc/webapps/roundcubemail/config/config.inc.php.sample /etc/webapps/roundcubemail/config/config.inc.php
Set your mail server settings, and set enable_installer
to enable the setup wizard:
/etc/webapps/roundcubemail/config/config.inc.php
$config['db_dsnw'] = 'mysql://roundcube:****@localhost/roundcubemail'; $config['default_host'] = 'tls://localhost'; $config['smtp_server'] = 'localhost'; $config['enable_installer'] = true;
PHP
Make sure to adjust following variables to these minimal values in your PHP config:
/etc/php/php.ini
date.timezone = "UTC"
Webserver (Apache)
Copy the configuration file for Apache to its configuration directory:
cp /etc/webapps/roundcubemail/apache.conf /etc/httpd/conf/extra/roundcube.conf
And include it at the bottom of
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Include conf/extra/roundcube.conf
Restart Apache (httpd.service
).
Install Roundcube
Finally you can visit the Roundcube installation wizard in your browser: http://localhost/roundcube/installer
For security reasons, you should disable the installer when you have completed the wizard: remove $config['enable_installer'] = true;
from config.inc.php
.
Because the ~/roundcube/config
directory contains sensitive information about your server, it's also a good idea to disallow access to this directory by adding these lines, too.
/etc/httpd/conf/extra/roundcube.conf
<Directory /usr/share/webapps/roundcubemail/config> Options -FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all denied </Directory>
Tips and tricks
Setting Roundcube up for use with an IMAP server that only allows TLS authentication
It's quite common for modern IMAP servers to only allow encrypted authentication, say using STARTTLS. If you are setting Roundcube up for TLS authentication, the web-based installer won't help you. You will need to edit the /etc/webapps/roundcubemail/config/config.inc.php
by hand, adding the following lines:
$config['default_host'] = 'tls://mail.my_domain.org';
$config['imap_conn_options'] = array( 'ssl' => array( 'verify_peer' => true, 'allow_self_signed' => true, 'peer_name' => 'mail.my_domain.org', 'ciphers' => 'TLSv1+HIGH:!aNull:@STRENGTH', 'cafile' => '/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-cyrus.my_domain.org.pem', ), );
where mail.my_domain.org
is the CN
host name in your SSL certificate (i.e. the hostname of your IMAP server), and /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-cyrus.my_domain.org.pem
is the path to your SSL certificate. You might need to adjust the ciphers
element to correspond to the ciphers allowed by your IMAP server.
A complete list of PHP SSL configuration options can be found here.
PDF and OpenDocument file preview
Following Roundcube extensions enables you to preview PDF or OpenDocument file attachements. Install roundcubemail-plugins-kolabAUR from the AUR and adjust following configuration file to enable the extensions:
/etc/webapps/roundcubemail/config/config.inc.php
$config['plugins'] = array( 'pdfviewer', 'odfviewer' );
If you encounter any file permission issues, than try this command:
chown -R http:http /usr/share/webapps/roundcubemail/plugins/odfviewer/files
Synchronize address book with CardDav contacts
It's useful to use the Roundcube address book to have auto-completion features for address fields etc. If you have your contacts stored somewhere else and the remote application offers a CardDav server for synchronization, then you can use the roundcube-rcmcarddavAUR extension from the AUR to access your remote address book in Roundcube. To enable it, adjust following lines in your config file:
/etc/webapps/roundcubemail/config/config.inc.php
$config['plugins'] = array( 'carddav' );
Further usage instructions can be found here.