From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 19 17:05:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA3837B401 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 17:05:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from host02.ipowerweb.com (host02.ipowerweb.com [12.129.206.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99EB343F75 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 17:05:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alpetec@host02.ipowerweb.com) Received: from alpetec by host02.ipowerweb.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 19Hud7-0004zX-00; Mon, 19 May 2003 17:05:21 -0700 From: "Aaron Peterson" To: 1@bendcable.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: NeoMail 1.25 X-IPAddress: 139.55.49.242 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-Id: Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 17:05:21 -0700 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host02.ipowerweb.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [33877 2452] / [33877 2452] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - host02.ipowerweb.com Subject: Re: squirrelmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: aaron@alpete.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 00:05:26 -0000 > Hello, > I am running FreeBSD 4.5 Release. I would like to install > squirrelmail using the port so that all the config files are where > they should be and to minimize the pain of installing this. I do not > have that port listed in /usr/ports/mail so I am guessing this was > not available at the time of my release. I was woundering if I could > just download this port and install it on my version of FreeBSD and > if so how I would go about this. > > Thanks, > Josh -- It is also trivial to download the most recent version from squirrelmail.org and unzip it to a directory that apache serves. most of the configuration headache (of which there is very little) is in changing httpd.conf if you use virtual directories or virtual servers, and/or running the ./configure script that comes with squirrelmail... you will have to do those things whether you use a port or not. I would recommend getting the latest version anyway for security and features. just another 2 cents aaron