Installing Aeromail

Finally, we can install the Web-mail package, Aeromail. We chose Aeromail because it's simple and very easy to install and can be ready to run in just a few minutes after the Web server is installed.

Installation is a breeze ; you just unpack it and edit a configuration file. All we have to do is unpack it under the Web documents tree.

# cp aeromail-1.40.tar.gz /usr/local/apache/htdocs/

# cd /usr/local/apache/htdocs/

# tar -zxvf aeromail-1.40.tar.gz

# cd aeromail

Now we're going to edit the Aeromail configuration file, config.inc:

# vi config.inc

You can change the window name at the top of the window, which is normally set to Aeromail (the program name ). Maybe call it CoolMail. If you want to, you should edit this line:

$PROG_NAME = "AeroMail";

Because we're running our own mail server, an IMAP server, we'll use the localhost directive. If you wanted to point it to another server, say, at your ISP, you should edit that value. It's important that they be using either the Cyrus or Univer sity of Washington (UWash) server types. Other servers are not supported by Aeromail. Earlier we installed the UWash server, so again we can leave this unchanged.

The biggest one to change is the page you get redirected to when you log out or cancel a login. You should set it to your own Web server. Change this line to somewhere other than the Aeromail installation on your server:

$SERVER_REDIR = "http://the.cushman.net/";

Other variables , like the number of messages per screen, color theme, and even language (Aeromail supports German, English, Spanish, French, and Hungar ian), are configurable. The comments in the configuration file should help you through this.

Write out the configuration file and you're ready to go.