> > Hi squirrelmail users, > > > > I recently did an update and I wanted to give an overview of the process > involved in (what I think is) updating squirrelmail for a production > environment. > Maybe there are better ways to do this and other users can comment, > share their experiences or give additional information on how they do > this. > > A list of plugins is available at the end of this email. > > > ENVIRONMENT DESCRIPTION: > > Platform: Debian sarge > Web: apache 1.3.33 and apache-ssl 1.3.33 > Mail: postfix, postfix-tls 2.1.5 > IMAP: cyrus 2.1.18 > > E-mail usernames and passwords are stored in a mysql db. I use > web-cyradm for this purpose. Its functionality is ok, but the web user > interface is rather unintuitive, and contains several bugs. > > For squirrelmail 1.4.4, I came up with several patches to make things > work the way I wanted them to. > I will try to list any custom change that I made, as I had to reproduce > it in yesterday's upgrade. > > > PRE 0: BACKUPS, BACKUPS, BACKUPS > > Create backups of all squirrelmail directories, the squirrelmail > database, and the mail database. > > > PRE 1: ADAPT SQUIRRELMAIL TO MY DIRECTORY STRUCTURE / SETUP > > Have previously used debian's squirrelmail package, and I liked some of > it's features. Most importantly, configuration files are kept in > /etc/squirrelmail. Steps: > * create new squirrelmail directories as > /usr/share/squirrelmail-1.4.6 and /etc/squirrelmail-1.4.6 so as not to > interfere with running version during installation. > * move "config/*" to /etc/squirrelmail-1.4.6 and create symlink > * hack "conf.pl" to reflect change of location for sqmail, plugin and > themes directory. Otherwise cannot use conf.pl to load plugins.
Wrong. Rule No.1 for Debian - "Don't store custom files in system directories". /usr/share is used by Debian packages. System upgrade can override your customizations. It is very unlikely to happen to /usr/share/squirrelmail-1.4.6, but you still use wrong place to store customizations. Use /usr/local or webserver's data directories. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ ... > STEP 3: HACK db_prefs.php > - This time, created custom patch to extend the default array for db > prefs in db_prefs.php. IMO this should be configurable externally. See forced_prefs plugin. -- Tomas ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
