Roundcube configuration

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To setup a basic roundcube server use following steps:

1. Download roundcube source from roundcube website ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/roundcubemail/files/roundcubemail/1.0.1/roundcubemail-1.0.1.tar.gz )
2. Extract the code and move it to /var/www/html using:

   tar xzf roundcubemail-1.0.1.tar.gz
   mv roundcubemail-1.0.1 /var/www/html/roundcube

3. Give apache write permission on logs and temp folders using:

   cd /var/www/html/roundcube/
   chown -R apache:apache logs/ temp/
   chmod -R 755 logs/ temp/

4. Install necessary packages using 'yum -y install mysql-server php-mysql php php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-intl php-dom'
5. Setup https web server (httpd, mod_ssl, etc.)
6. Start and enable mysqld and httpd services using:

   service httpd start
   chkconfig httpd on
   service mysqld start
   chkconfig mysqld on

7. Start 'mysql' and use:

   CREATE DATABASE roundcubemail;
   GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON roundcubemail.* TO roundcube@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '';
   FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
   \q

8. Then start mysql using 'mysql -u roundcube roundcubemail < /var/www/html/roundcube/SQL/mysql.initial.sql' to initialize roundcubemail database.
9. Create '/var/www/html/roundcube/config/config.inc.php' file with following contents:

   <?php
   $config['db_dsnw'] = 'mysql://roundcube:@localhost/roundcubemail';
   $config['default_host'] = 'ssl://<IMAP-server>';
   $config['default_port'] = 993;
   $config['smtp_server'] = 'localhost';
   $config['support_url'] = '';
   $config['ip_check'] = true;
   $config['des_key'] = '<24-random-chars>';
   $config['plugins'] = array();
   $rcmail_config['mail_domain'] = '%t';

   where replace <24-random-chars> with 24 random alphanumeric characters. Also replace <IMAP-server> with IMAP server FQDN.

10. The steps assume local postfix server is configured to allow sending emails from this machine.
11. In some cases editing of '/etc/php.ini' to set 'date.timezone = "Asia/Calcutta"' under module '[Date]' might be necessary.

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