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Ztseguin at 00:47, 1 April 2018

2018-04-01T00:47:46Z

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	Webmail is offered at https://mail.csclub.uwaterloo.ca and hosted on [[Machine_List#mail\|mail]]. It currently runs [http://roundcube.net/ RoundCube] ~~as www-webmail (UID 301)~~.		Webmail is offered at https://mail.csclub.uwaterloo.ca and hosted on [[Machine_List#mail\|mail]]. It currently runs [http://roundcube.net/ RoundCube].

	== Usage ==		== Usage ==

Ztseguin at 00:47, 1 April 2018

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	Webmail is offered at https://mail.csclub.uwaterloo.ca and hosted on [[Machine_List#~~caffeine~~\|~~caffeine~~]]. It currently runs [http://roundcube.net/ RoundCube] as www-webmail (UID 301).		Webmail is offered at https://mail.csclub.uwaterloo.ca and hosted on [[Machine_List#mail\|mail]]. It currently runs [http://roundcube.net/ RoundCube] as www-webmail (UID 301).

	== Usage ==		== Usage ==

Jbroman at 19:44, 14 August 2011

2011-08-14T19:44:10Z

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	Webmail is offered at https://mail.csclub.uwaterloo.ca and hosted on [[Machine_List#caffeine\|caffeine]]. It currently runs [http://roundcube.net/ RoundCube] as www-webmail (UID 301) ~~via [[Suexec\|suexec]] through mod_fcgid~~.		Webmail is offered at https://mail.csclub.uwaterloo.ca and hosted on [[Machine_List#caffeine\|caffeine]]. It currently runs [http://roundcube.net/ RoundCube] as www-webmail (UID 301).

	== Usage ==		== Usage ==
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	\| Makes an entry whenever a user sends a message.		\| Makes an entry whenever a user sends a message.
	\|-		\|-
	\| /var/log/apache2/csc-mail-access.log		\| /var/log/apache2-webmail/csc-mail-access.log
	\| [[Apache]]		\| [[Apache]]
	\| Logs requests to the mail vhost.		\| Logs requests to the mail vhost.
	\|-		\|-
	\| /var/log/apache2/csc-mail-error.log		\| /var/log/apache2-webmail/csc-mail-error.log
	\| Apache		\| Apache
	\| Logs errors generated by Apache for the mail vhost.		\| Logs errors generated by Apache for the mail vhost.
	\|-
	\| /var/log/apache2/suexec.log
	\| [[Suexec\|suexec]]
	\| Logs errors with suexec.
	\|}		\|}

	=== suexec ===

	Webmail is currently run as www-webmail using [[Suexec\|suexec]]. Suexec is fairly picky about permissions, so here are the permissions on the FastCGI wrapper stuff and their contents. This setup is known to work.

	'''dr-xr-xr-x 2 www-webmail www-webmail 4096 2010-01-20 21:57 /var/lib/roundcube/fcgi-wrapper'''

	'''-r-xr-xr-x 1 www-webmail www-webmail 95 2010-01-20 21:57 php-cgi'''
	#!/bin/sh
	export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=3
	export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=4000
	exec /usr/bin/php5-cgi

	'''-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 71 2010-01-20 21:34 php-cgi-suexec'''
	#!/bin/sh
	exec /usr/lib/apache2/suexec www-webmail www-webmail php-cgi

	And here is the relevant line in the vhost configuration:

	FCGIWrapper "/var/lib/roundcube/fcgi-wrapper/php-cgi-suexec" .php

	== Patches ==		== Patches ==

Jbroman: add to Software category

2010-03-22T23:17:44Z

add to Software category

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	Additionally, RoundCube does not automatically read user display names from LDAP, so by default emails have an outgoing display name of "j3doe" instead of "John Doe". There is a [http://trac.roundcube.net/attachment/ticket/1485203/populate_newuser_identity_from_ldap.patch patch] which remedies this. If you do need to reapply it, do so by hand as minor changes in that area of rcube_user.php may make automatic patching misbehave.		Additionally, RoundCube does not automatically read user display names from LDAP, so by default emails have an outgoing display name of "j3doe" instead of "John Doe". There is a [http://trac.roundcube.net/attachment/ticket/1485203/populate_newuser_identity_from_ldap.patch patch] which remedies this. If you do need to reapply it, do so by hand as minor changes in that area of rcube_user.php may make automatic patching misbehave.

			[[Category:Software]]

Jbroman: about deletion

2010-01-27T17:50:48Z

about deletion

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	Webmail is offered at https://mail.csclub.uwaterloo.ca and hosted on [[Machine_List#caffeine\|caffeine]]. It currently runs [http://roundcube.net/ RoundCube] as www-webmail (UID 301) via [[Suexec\|suexec]] through mod_fcgid.		Webmail is offered at https://mail.csclub.uwaterloo.ca and hosted on [[Machine_List#caffeine\|caffeine]]. It currently runs [http://roundcube.net/ RoundCube] as www-webmail (UID 301) via [[Suexec\|suexec]] through mod_fcgid.

			== Usage ==

			If you are unable to delete files, this is because you do not have a Trash folder. RoundCube should create this automatically, but if it fails to do so, simply create it yourself.

	== Configuration ==		== Configuration ==

Jbroman: Webmail documentation

2010-01-21T04:12:29Z

Webmail documentation

New page

Webmail is offered at https://mail.csclub.uwaterloo.ca and hosted on [[Machine_List#caffeine|caffeine]]. It currently runs [http://roundcube.net/ RoundCube] as www-webmail (UID 301) via [[Suexec|suexec]] through mod_fcgid.

== Configuration ==

The configuration is located in /etc/roundcube, and the database configuration is generated from /etc/dbconfig-common/roundcube.conf. At the moment, RoundCube stores its data (user preferences, etc.) in a [[MySQL]] database called csc-roundcube using a user of the same name. RoundCube is configured to auto-complete contacts from the CSC and UW [[LDAP]] directories for convenience.

=== Logging ===

A few different logs are involved in webmail (logrotate should take care of keeping them from expanding too much):

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Path
! Written by
! Purpose
|-
| /var/log/roundcube/errors
| RoundCube
| RoundCube errors: Can mostly be ignored, but PHP errors get redirected here so it may be useful.
|-
| /var/log/roundcube/sendmail
| RoundCube
| Makes an entry whenever a user sends a message.
|-
| /var/log/apache2/csc-mail-access.log
| [[Apache]]
| Logs requests to the mail vhost.
|-
| /var/log/apache2/csc-mail-error.log
| Apache
| Logs errors generated by Apache for the mail vhost.
|-
| /var/log/apache2/suexec.log
| [[Suexec|suexec]]
| Logs errors with suexec.
|}

=== suexec ===

Webmail is currently run as www-webmail using [[Suexec|suexec]]. Suexec is fairly picky about permissions, so here are the permissions on the FastCGI wrapper stuff and their contents. This setup is known to work.

'''dr-xr-xr-x 2 www-webmail www-webmail 4096 2010-01-20 21:57 /var/lib/roundcube/fcgi-wrapper'''

'''-r-xr-xr-x 1 www-webmail www-webmail 95 2010-01-20 21:57 php-cgi'''
#!/bin/sh
export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=3
export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=4000
exec /usr/bin/php5-cgi

'''-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 71 2010-01-20 21:34 php-cgi-suexec'''
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/lib/apache2/suexec www-webmail www-webmail php-cgi

And here is the relevant line in the vhost configuration:

FCGIWrapper "/var/lib/roundcube/fcgi-wrapper/php-cgi-suexec" .php

== Patches ==

Since the lenny-backports version of RoundCube is 0.2 (not 0.3), plugin support does not exist in RoundCube at this time. As a result, a few pieces of extra functionality have been patched into the source. Firstly, the following is needed to generate CSC email addresses from user IDs (as we do not have any "mail" field in our directory). Add it in the _ldap2result function in /usr/share/roundcube/program/include/rcube_ldap.php, immediately before the return statement.

// if found by uid, put that in first
if (!$out['email'])
$out['email'] = $out['name'];

// add domain if there is none
if (strpos($out['email'],"@") === FALSE)
$out['email'] .= "@csclub.uwaterloo.ca";

Additionally, RoundCube does not automatically read user display names from LDAP, so by default emails have an outgoing display name of "j3doe" instead of "John Doe". There is a [http://trac.roundcube.net/attachment/ticket/1485203/populate_newuser_identity_from_ldap.patch patch] which remedies this. If you do need to reapply it, do so by hand as minor changes in that area of rcube_user.php may make automatic patching misbehave.