How can i install a mail client in ubuntu?

Question

I have so many problems trying to install some mail clients like Squirrel or postfix ...

I try to install a mail client but i recieve so many fails like cannot conect smtp server or similars and in squirrel only shows a white screen instead the client.

Can someone make a guide to install it please ?

Answer 1

Okay, try this in that order.

1st u need to install postfix and mailutils in case u need to use them.

sudo apt install postfix mailutils -y

U should select the option of Internet Site and introduce the address of your mail like mail.com or something like this same on the archive /etc/hosts so u need to put

sudo nano /etc/hosts

and rename the line of your localhost to the address on the previous step.

Now u should create the users to exchange the mails.

sudo adduser user1
sudo adduser user2

And the last step send and email like...

su user1
mail user2

and finish the mail pressing Ctrl+d

Now u can change the users to verify the mail , just put the line:

mail

In the case u need graphical instance u can install squirrel like this.

sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php
sudo apt install dovecot-impad dovecot-pop3d

Now, u can go to the web of Squirrelmail and download the version required.

Then, u can extract the tar.gz

sudo tar -xf Downloads/squirrel....

U should move it sudo mv squirrelmail.stable/ var/www/html/mail(or the name what u want it)

U will need change the owner like nobody or www-data

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/mail

Now u should go to the archive config-default.php to edit it

sudo nano /var/www/html/mail/squirrelmail/config/config-default.php 

inside u need to change three lines

domain to ='mail.com'
data_dir to = '/var/www/html/mail/squirrelmail/data'
attach_dir to ='/var/www/html/mail/squirrelmail/attach'

The attach dir isnt create so do this:

sudo mkdir /var/www/html/mail/squirrelmail/attach

and change the owner

sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html/mail/squirrelmail/attach

If all its okay and u follow all the steps u can type in Explorers bar something like mail.com/mail/squirrelmail to get a client mail.