Roundcube as webmail client

RoundCube webmail client is one who has the look attractive, e-mail client supports functions such as Drag & Drop, grouping emails in folders, address book, email search and spell checking. RoundCube has advantages in check that will go automatically without user interaction such as that owned by Gmail.

Installing RoundCube webmail with the Ubuntu 9.04 server is not too difficult, because the RoundCube package repository is available on Ubuntu 9.04 server, so to installation we can do it with apt-get, by doing a little configuration can then RoundCube has functioned well.

To install RoundCube on Ubuntu 9.04 server is required apache2, php5 and mysql, so before we install RoundCube, we should install those packages first, the following command to install the package:

root@mailserver:~# apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql

Run the following command to install RoundCube on ubuntu:

root@mailserver:~# aptitude install roundcube roundcube-mysql

RoundCube configuration:

root@mailserver:~# dpkg-reconfigure roundcube-core

Next we must create a symbolic link to the document root for apache2, where the symbolic tersbeut located in the folder /var/www, the following command:

root@mailserver:~# ln -s /usr/share/roundcube /var/www/roundcube

Then restart apache2 functions:

root@mailserver:~# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Finally, the installation process with RoundCube webmail client is finished, to check please do the following:

• Open your Internet browser, enter the url: http://ip_address_mailserver/roundcube
• If your configuration is correct, then you will view the first entry roundcube login, then enter your user name and password