Need help setting up squirrelmail (not the version that came with bluehost account)

[Erin]

I've had Squirrelmail set up for a while now in my own directory (not the Squirrelmail that came with the account), and haven't had any problems with it. However, bluehost just upgraded my account to the 15G of space, which meant moving my site to the new server, and when I try to log in to squirrelmail, I get this message on the left-hand frame:

"ERROR : Could not complete request.
Query: CREATE "mail/Sent"
Reason Given: Invalid mailbox name."

Can anyone help? Do I need to change a path somewhere, or permissions?

Thanks in advance,
Erin

[i6productions]

you might have to change the path to the new server and if that dont work out for you my only thought would be to redo it all over again,

[bookworm]

Hello,
Erin, may you please tell me how can I setup Squirrelmail on my bluehost account? I want to have my own installation so that I can customize it.

[bettysue]

I also need help on setting up a copy of Squirrelmail on one of our accounts. We need to use some of the plug-ins that Bluehost doesn't offer.

I have installed and re-installed it several times and even with shell access to use the perl set-up script, I cannot get it to work. I have set the permissions per the squirrelmail instructions and all I ever get are errors denying access to the pages.

I have tried everything I can think of including copying the bluehost created directories to my install, setting the path the the bluehost directories, creating new directories, and every combination in between.

Bluehost is the first host I've ever worked with that didn't already have most of the more common plug-ins already installed. Admittedly since they are all free I don't understand the concept behind not having them, but I have resolved myself to the fact they won't be a part of the mail service here.

Tech support told me the solution is to install my own version of Squirrelmail, but failed to tell me how to do it, so I am seeking help here.

Unfortunately the squirrelmail instructions are mainly for setting it up with server level permissions.

Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated,

betty

[zyurph]

First Create a .mysqmail folder in your base directory.

Under that directory create two folders named data and attachment.

Now download Squirrelmail and get it extracted to the folder you want.

Such as /home/username/public_html/squirrelmail

Then in your config.php file change the server type to cyrus.

This file does not exist so you will need to copy and rename the config_default.php file in the config directory.

Now change the $data_dir setting to point to the data dir you created.

ex: $data_dir = "/home/username/.mysqmail/data";

and the same for the Attachment dir setting.

ex: $attachment_dir = "/home/username/.mysqmail/attachment";

This should get you up and running.

[bettysue]

thank you so much!

Just a couple of follow-up questions (sorry)

Do I set permissions on everything at 730, or just upload it and leave it alone?

Also, on the plug-ins which is why I need to install our own version, do I need to go into the shell and the conf.pl file and install them?

thank you so much for your reply and for putting it in a way that is easy to understand.

betty