cPanel's webmail requires that IMAP be enabled

[Astral God]

Hi.

On "Mailserver Configuration", we have the follow note:

It should be noted that cPanel's webmail requires that IMAP be enabled

Does this mean tha ti have to maintain IMAP, IMAPS and POPS or can i keep only IMAPS and POPS (secured versions only) ?

Thanks.

[ThinIce]

Interesting question. Looking at the sources under /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/ the applications themselves certainly seem to have defaults of localhost and port 143

The disable plaintext auth also has the following

Setting this to 'no' is preferable to disabling IMAP in the 'Protocols Enabled' section since it will force remote users to use encryption while still allowing webmail to function correctly.

Implying that webmail does indeed need IMAP, per the note

[Eric]

Howdy,

There are ways to point each webmail app over tho imaps and turn imap off.

Thanks!

[EWD]

Howdy,

There are ways to point each webmail app over tho imaps and turn imap off.

Thanks!

Care to share how?

Thank you!

[Eric]

Sure

First run /scripts/makecpphp you're going to need some SSL in your PHP Kool-Aid.

For SquirrelMail

/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/squirrelmail/configure

Option 1, Option 2, Option A, Option 5, Change the port to 993, Option 7, Switch to YES, Save and Quit

I will research the others and update.

Thanks!

[EWD]

Sure

First run /scripts/makecpphp you're going to need some SSL in your PHP Kool-Aid.

For SquirrelMail

/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/squirrelmail/configure

Option 1, Option 2, Option A, Option 5, Change the port to 993, Option 7, Switch to YES, Save and Quit

I will research the others and update.

Thanks!

Awesome thank you Eric

[cPanelJared]

For Horde:

Edit /usr/local/cpanel/base/horde/imp/config/servers.php and change the port and protocol values as described here:

Wiki :: FAQ/Admin/Prerequisites

For Roundcube:

Edit /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/roundcube/config/main.inc.php, and edit the following line:

$rcmail_config['default_host'] = 'localhost';

This is explained here:

Howto_Config – Roundcube Webmail

Note that edits to the SquirrelMail, Roundcube and Horde configuration files can be overwritten when cPanel updates. To work around this, once you get everything working as you want, copy the files you have edited to another location, and create a /scripts/postupcp script that will copy the files back to their original locations. That way your custom edited files will still be present after each cPanel update.

[EWD]

Excellent!
Thank you so much Jared

[cPanelTristan]

For the /scripts/postupcp script in case you have any trouble, here's how you could do that part:

cp /usr/local/cpanel/base/horde/imp/config/servers.php  /root/servers.php
cp /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/roundcube/config/main.inc.php /root/main.inc.php

touch /scripts/postupcp
chmod +x /scripts/postupcp

After that, run the following to place the copy commands into that script:

echo -e '#!/bin/bash\ncp /root/servers.php /usr/local/cpanel/base/horde/imp/config/servers.php\ncp /root/main.inc.php /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/roundcube/config/main.inc.php' > /scripts/postupcp

Thanks!