W3MAIL - fast and small web-mail client written in PHP5. It provides easy webmail access to IMAP accounts and has very few requirements to install. Features multi-language support, simple contacts manager, MIME attachments, displays HTML messages. W3MAIL supports leading open-source database engines, PostgreSQL and MySQL. Translations: English, Russian. User Interface: Web-based.
[PAD 2.0]News
06-May-2005: Version 1.0 released.
Requirements
These are the following requirements to use W3MAIL:
- OS: Linux, Unix, Windows all
- WWW Server: Apache 1.3 or better
- PHP: The latest version PHP with the IMAP extensions
- MySQL or PostgreSQL database engine
Installation
1. Obtaining and installing W3MAIL
First fetch the W3MAIL sources, and put them into a web-accessible location, default - /home/httpd/sites/webmail.
2. Setting up IMAP
Three open-source IMAP servers are available now: University of Washington (UW), Cyrus IMAP, and Courier IMAP. Setting up procedure depends a lot on the server your choose. See the documentation that comes with your server to install it. We strongly recommend you to use the UW IMAP server.
3. Installing and configuring Apache web-server
Install the Apache web-server and lastest version of PHP. Then go into your web-server configuration and make the following changes to execute W3MAIL:
Alias /mail /home/httpd/sites/webmail/
<Directory "/home/httpd/sites/webmail/">
Options ExecCGI
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
If your web-server does not already have PHP you must configure it to work with PHP. You can find PHP at
http://www.php.net. See the documentation that comes with PHP for instructions how to set it up.
4. Enable the PHP IMAP extensions
You must also enabled the IMAP extensions in PHP to use this program. First make sure that the extensions are compiled acording to the PHP documents. Then, open you php.ini file and find a line (if you compiled the extensions as a seperate module) that reades ;extension=imap.so or ;extension=php_imap.dll if you are running your webserwer under Windows, and remove the ";" from in front of the line. Then restart your web-server if necessary.
5. Configuration
Go into your php.ini file and find a setting called "File Uploads". Then find the file_uploads parameter and set it to On. Here to define the maximum allowed size for uploaded files also. Restart your web-server if necessary and browse to http://www.example.com/mail/ (where www.example.com is your server name) to continue your installation.
Configuration parameters
Most of the W3MAIL configuration parameters are controlled by the config.php script.
1. Database Information
These are other parameters in the config.php file that will allow you specify the settings to access an SQL server with the databases beeded to run W3MAIL.
$SQLDriver : The name of the database engine (mysql or postgresql).
$SQLHostname : Hostname and port (or socket path) of you SQL server.
$SQLUsername : The username needed to access your SQL server.
$SQLPassword : The password needed to access your SQL server.
$SQLDatabase : The name of the database to use for the per-user settings.
2. Server information
$IMAPHostname : This is the IP address or a fully qualified host name
of your IMAP server.
$IMAPPort : This is the port that your IMAP server is listening on,
this usually defaults to 143.
$IMAPFlags : IMAP optional connect flags.
$SMTPDomain : This value is used to add the domain part of the e-mail
address to the end of usernames.
$DEFCharset : System default charset.
$SENTFolder : Sent folders location.
3. Other settings
These are other settings in the config.php file that will allow you to customize and configure the mailer.
$Language : This is the language that the mailer will be in; this
helps to define the labels, help documentation, and
about page. Language files and scripts or stored in
the lang directory. This defaults to English.
$RefreshList : This is the number of seconds that the browser will
wait before automatically reloading the Mail List.
$AttachmentSize : This lets the administrator limit the size of the files
that can be attached to mail. If this size ends in a "M",
or "k" then the the size will be based on a Megabyte or
kilobyte. Zero value means no limit.