How to Install Roundcube Webmail on CentOS

With Roundcube webmail you will get a full browser-based webmail IMAP client with an application-like user interface. Roundcube webmail runs on a standard PHP/MySQL configuration and 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

Install Roundcube webmail via yum.

yum install roundcubemail

Create a new roundcube MySQL database and import the table structure.
Please change the mysql.initial.sql path according to your Roundcube webmail version.

mysql -uroot -p
GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'roundcube'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
create database roundcube;
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON `roundcube`.* TO 'roundcube'@'localhost';
use roundcube;
source /usr/share/doc/roundcubemail-0.1.1/SQL/mysql.initial.sql;
quit

Modify the db.inc.php to suit your current MySQL setup.

vi /etc/roundcubemail/db.inc.php
$rcmail_config['db_dsnw'] = ‘mysql://roundcube:password@localhost/roundcube’;

Set the default host and enable auto_create_user to automatically create a Roundcube webmail account whenever a new mail user has been created.

vi /etc/roundcubemail/main.inc.php
$rcmail_config['default_host'] = 'localhost';
$rcmail_config['auto_create_user'] = TRUE;

Open the roundcubemail.conf and modify the Allow line. By default, access to the Roundcube webmail URL is only allowed from localhost.

vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/roundcubemail.conf
Allow from ::1

Now you can restart your webserver.

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

By default, Roundcube webmail can be accessed at the following locations:

• http://localhost/roundcubemail/
• http://you-IP-address/roundcubemail/