Roundcube

Roundcube is a mail user agent that is running as webmail service.

Install it

Here is an example how to install it. It uses apache2 on SUSE Linux 12.1. Other combinations should work same or similar. It installs roundcube on the local host 127.0.0.1.

• set up an apache web server with SUSE Linux
• install some packages and restart the web server

yast -i php5-gettext php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-pear
pear install mdb2
pear install Net_SMTP
pear install Mail_mime
pear install MDB2_Driver_mysql
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

• set up a mail server
• set up an imap service
• visit http://www.roundcube.net and find the latest stable release to download
• download it into the web server's directory

cd /srv/www/htdocs
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/roundcubemail/roundcubemail/0.7.2/roundcubemail-0.7.2.tar.gz

• unpack it

tar xvzf roundcubemail-0.7.2.tar.gz

• change the folder name to roundcube

mv roundcubemail-0.7.2 roundcube

• configure roundcube: surf to http://127.0.0.1/roundcube/installer

Migrate the database

Roundcube uses a database to store contacts, user preferences and the like. The database can be mysql, sqlite or another database. You can change from one database to another by modifying one configuration file, it is (depending on your server root) /srv/www/htdocs/roundcube/config/db.inc.php.

TroubleShooting

With older SUSE versions the following packages seemed necessary:

• php5-pear-mail
• php5-pear-mail_mime

upload error

Symptom

When trying to attach a file, after clicking "upload" there is an error message "upload error". You are using roundcube 0.3.1.

Solution

Update roundcube to the latest version.

See also

• webmail software - other software for this
• Calendar for RoundCube
• http://www.roundcube.net/