Openwebmail Configuration

I used Debian 6.0.0 OS.

Step: 1 At first we need apache.
apt-get install apache2


Step: 2 Download openwebmail tar from internet.
#wget http://www.openwebmail.org/openwebmail/download/release/openwebmail-2.53.tar.gz


Step: 3 tar -zxvf openwebmail-2.53.tar.gz

you will get to dirrectories named: "data" and "cgi-bin"

Step: 4 cp -R cgi-bin/openwebmail  /usr/lib/cgi-bin/

# cd data/

cp -R openwebmail  /var/www


vim /usr/lib/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/openwebmail.conf

Edit the following:

domainnames             pijush.com
auth_module             auth_unix.pl
mailspooldir            /var/mail
ow_cgidir               /usr/lib/cgi-bin/openwebmail
ow_cgiurl               /cgi-bin/openwebmail
ow_htmldir              /var/www/openwebmail
ow_htmlurl              /openwebmail
logfile                 /var/log/openwebmail.log

Step: 5 vim /usr/lib/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/defaults/auth_unix.conf

Edit the following:

passwdfile_encrypted    /etc/shadow
passwdmkdb              none

Step: 6 vim /usr/lib/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/defaults/dbm.conf

Edit the following:

dbm_ext                 .pag
dbmopen_ext             none
dbmopen_haslock         no


Step: 7 Install the following dependencies.
apt-get install perl-suid


Step: 8 apt-get install libhtml-template-perl


Step: 9 cd /usr/lib/cgi-bin/openwebmail

#chmod 4555 *.pl


Step: 10 cd /var/www
# chown -R www-data:www-data openwebmail


Step: 11 cd /usr/lib/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/
#  chmod 777 sessions


Step: 12 cd /usr/lib/cgi-bin/openwebmail
# ./openwebmail-tool.pl --init