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Install Roundcube Webmail Software On CentOS RHEL Fedora

Roundcubemail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking.

Install roundcube webmail software on CentOS RHEL Fedora

Install the prerequisites

yum install httpd php php-common php-json php-xml php-mbstring php-imap php-pear-DB php-mysql mysql mysql-server

Download the latest tarball of roundcube mail, untar it and move it to the document root of the web server. Also change the ownership.

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/roundcubemail/files/roundcubemail/0.8.6/roundcubemail-0.8.6.tar.gz/download
tar zxvf roundcubemail-0.8.6.tar.gz
mv roundcubemail-0.8.6 /var/www/html/roundcubemail
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/roundcubemail

Create database and user for roundcube mail

/etc/init.d/mysqld start
mysql -uroot -p
CREATE DATABASE roundcubemail /*!40101 CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci */;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON roundcubemail.* TO roundcube@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

Open the link in the web browser
http://ipaddress-or-domainname/roundcubemail/installer

Roundcube installation
Roundcube installation

Remove the installer directory

rm -rf /var/www/html/roundcubemail/installer
Roundcube login screen

 

 

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