Okay, I found the "document" on squirrelmail.org about VirtualHosts, but it is very vague and I'm wondering if somebody can help me make a better doc for their site. First of all, my web/email server is hosted by a company - meaning they probably are running multiple domains per box (I would hope so atleast). So, what would be the best way to accomplish webmail on their site? Yes, they have imap support, not sure what server, yes, they have pop, "mail.myserver.com" and yes they have mysql support.. Thanks in advance!

--Micah

I don't see a problem.

I use squirrelmail, all you need to do is put the user in the root squirrelmail folder and the login page will load.

they need php support, database is an option but not required.

it accesses the mail using imap, and sends using smtp. It also supports mail server on another machine


I would say have the DocumentRoot of mail.domain.com be /usr/share/squirrelmail

or where squirrelmail is

It would also be advisable to have https for the login at least, if not for the entire session

What I'm saying is - how do I distinguish one domains "username1" from another domains "username1".. Lets say my email addy is micah@bobswebsite.com and somebody on the SAME server has micah@hosermonkey.net. the usernames would be aliased. the first one would be micah001 and the second one would be micah002. Right? So, how does squirrelmail know this? THAT is my question.

Sorry for the confusion.

It would not be a squirrelmail issue but a mailserver issue

you should probably have a different squirrelmail folder for each domain, so you could have domain specific stuff in squirrelmail


On the mailserver issue I would say you should have unique names

Here is how you would do multiple domains on sendmail if you want

http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html

All-righty. Well, I'm going to go ahead and give it a whack when I get home from work. I'm HOPING they are unque names. But, if they use passwd/shadow authentication then i'm screwed. but if its mysql/ldap/etc then i'm prob OK.

As far as using /etc/passwd or not I think that is also a mail server issue

Unless I'm wrong completely, it would all depend on your imap server, and if you use smtp auth then that would also be an issue that's related only to the smtp server.