Roundcube

We're going to get the backport version as it's much much better

so in /etc/apt/sources.list add

deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main

and to install

apt-get -t squeeze-backports install roundcube roundcube-mysql roundcube-plugins roundcube-plugins-extra

You will need mysql-server, apache2 and php5 as well.

then in /etc/roundcube/apache.conf

uncomment:
    Alias /roundcube/program/js/tiny_mce/ /usr/share/tinymce/www/
    Alias /roundcube /var/lib/roundcube

in /etc/roundcube/main.inc.php change

$rcmail_config['htmleditor'] = 0; to 1
$rcmail_config['preview_pane'] = 0; to 1
$rcmail_config['default_host'] = '127.0.0.1';
$rcmail_config['language'] = 'nl_NL';

Settings that need looking at and haven't been enabled yet!

$rcmail_config['smtp_server'] = 'localhost';
$rcmail_config['smtp_user'] = '%u';
$rcmail_config['smtp_pass'] = '%p';

in /usr/local/etc/php.ini

upload_max_filesize = 5M

Plugins

virtuser_file

This comes with the roundcube-plugins package and makes roundcube read the identities (@domain.ext) from a file in the format:

email@domain.ext user

email2@domain2.ext user2

If a user has multiple @domain.ext set in the file, then it makes multiple entries you can choose from as your from address.

Find in /etc/roundcube/main.inc.php

$rcmail_config['plugins'] = array('virtuser_file');

To enable it. and then all the way at the bottom set

$rcmail_config['virtuser_file'] = '/etc/postfix/virtual';

DragnDrop Attachments

You can find that here

download, then unzip and mv to /var/lib/roundcube/plugins/dragndrop_attachments/

In main.inc.php

$rcmail_config['plugins'] = array('virtuser_file','vcard_attachments','show_additional_headers','emoticons','jqueryui','dragndrop_attachments', 'vacation');

Google Contacts

Syncs your Google account with the adress book. Find it here

Download, then unzip and mv to /var/lib/roundcube/plugins/google_contacts/

Add the SQL in the file, move the config/config.inc.php.dist to config.inc.php (might want to change $rcmail_config['google_contacts_max_results'] = 1000; to a higher number)

Download the Zend GData API's. In that file there is a subdirectory somewhere called Zend, which you copy to /var/lib/roundcube/program/lib/Zend/

In main.inc.php

$rcmail_config['plugins'] = array('virtuser_file','vcard_attachments','show_additional_headers','emoticons','jqueryui','dragndrop_attachments', 'vacation','google_contacts');

If you get a bad authentication error, you need to ensure that in Personal Settings -> Address Book the account has been filled in with everything after the @ as well. If you still get the error, gmail may have sent you a message saying that you need to authenticate the new device. There should be a link to allow this in that mail.

Vacation autoresponder

Download it from here

unzip it to /var/lib/roundcube/plugins/vacation/

The config.ini should look like this:

[default]
driver = "ftp"
subject = "Afwezig"
body = "default.txt"

[dotforward]
binary = "/usr/bin/vacation"
flags = ""
message = ".vacation.msg"
database = ".vacation.db"
alias_identities = true
set_envelop_sender = false
always_keep_message = true

in Roundcube 0.5 the page layout has changed and the plugin displays incorrectly. To fix this, edit

plugins/vacation/skins/default/vacation.css

and add in some padding:

#pagecontent {
width: 800px;
padding-top:70px;
}

Also edit plugins/vacation/default.txt

Note that it won't save the autoresponder message and subject if you don't tick the checkbox on the top of the page (which we've moved down a bit above)

Finally, add 'vacation' to the $rcmail_config['plugins'] in roundcube main.inc.php

You can find the auto reply in the settings

Important when testing!

NB. when testing, you may need to delete the users from the roundcube mysql database to check if certain settings are being set before logging in (the identities and users table)