Tomas Kuliavas said: >> Johannes Egger said: >>> >>>>>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/ >>> >>> You are right. I know the FHS, and I am aware of this. This is my >>> personal preference, though. I don't claim FHS compliance and, like you >>> said, collision is unlikely with this versioning scheme. >>> >>> >>>>>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. >>> Ah, yes. Written by you *g >>> I must have overseen it. >>> >>> Thanks for the suggestion, and for your help with i18n. Composing, and >>> replying to emails in other character sets works fine now. >>> >>> >>> johannes >>> >> Where should the configuration files go then? They are 'local' >> customizations. Should they go in /usr/local/squirrelmail? > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#ETCHOSTSPECIFICSYSTEMCONFIGURATION > > -- > Tomas Thanks for the quick response, I was thinking more in terms of the plug-ins, most of which come with their own config.php. Granted they are consistent (each plugin has its own config.php). I guess I'm wondering if there is a mechanism to point to local variants of program files (I had to hack the configtest.php and several of the serversidefilters scripts to get them to work with dovecote and our arrangement of user directories (Maildir which lives in the user's directory rather than a central mail area).
BTW: I've developed as set a perl scripts to move users from one server to another and convert from mbox to maildir (they are hacks but if someone has a similar problem I could send them over). I still have issues with user preferences going into the new new mysql db. ------- William R. Mussatto, Senior Systems Engineer http://www.csz.com Ph. 909-920-9154 ext. 27 FAX. 909-608-7061 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
