H-Sphere Webmail

• Webmail Configuration:

Included Software

H-Sphere comes with two webmail clients:

• IMP that includes horde and its plugins:
  • imp
  • kronolith
  • mnemo
  • nag
  • turba
• SqWebMail.

H-Sphere Webmail package requires that you have the aspell package installed.

In 2.4.1 and later, Horde IMP webmail client is installed on each mail server. In earlier versions, it was installed on one of the H-Sphere web servers.

Installation/Updates

H-Sphere webmail is normally installed by the H-Sphere server installation script as outlined in the Adding Servers document with H-Sphere updates.

Enabling SqWebMail

To set SqWebmail instead of IMP:

1. Log into the CP server as the cpanel user.
2. Open the hsphere.properties file:
   
   vi ~cpanel/shiva/psoft_config/hsphere.properties
3. Comment out the following line:
   
   WEB_MAIL = IMP
4. Restart H-Sphere.

Setting SMTP Server For IMP

IMP configuration is written in the /hsphere/shared/apache/htdocs/horde/config/horde.php file.

IMP is configured in such way that it uses local sendmail as SMTP server by default. To configure IMP to use external SMTP server, modify horde.php in the following way:

1. Change the mailer type to smtp. For this, change the line:
   
   $conf['mailer']['type'] = 'sendmail';
   to:
   $conf['mailer']['type'] = 'smtp';
2. Uncomment the following line and specify the smtp server:
   
   $conf['mailer']['params'] = array('host' => 'smtp.example.com');
   where smtp.example.com should be a valid smtp server name.

Configuring IMP with IMAP

In H-Sphere below 2.4.3 RC 2, to configure IMP to work with IMAP:

1. Log into the CP server as the cpanel user.
2. Open the hsphere.properties file:
   
   vi ~cpanel/shiva/psoft_config/hsphere.properties
3. Add the following line:
   
   MAIL_PROTOCOL=imap
4. Restart H-Sphere.