23 Apr 2006
Uebimiau and CPanel
As you readers may know, I run a small web hosting business, and part of the work I have to do is to install and configure additional features to the system.
One day, my fellow Fábio asked me for a lighter webmail client, because his customers (Fábio is a reseller of mine) are not skilled enough to make use of bloated softwares. And, of course, there is the matter of the Language: our average customers do not read anything but in Portuguese.
My friend then suggested to install Uebimiau as the webmail client, because it is light, it is easy, it is free. We made some adjustments, some tests, and finally created a simple solution that now allows our customers to have a fourth option in webbased e-mail. The following text was published as a post in official cPanel Forum, and tells the steps needed to do it.
Well, in fact a friend/customer of mine did the magic with some support from me. We made Uebimiau to work as an alternative webmail.
The steps are seemingly the following (not a how-to, or a tutorial, just what I can remember).
- Install the program in a place every customer can make requires (I chose /usr/local/lib/php/uebimiau, not sure it is the best location).
- Modify the configuration file to ask the entire e-mail address as login (in fact, we made another trick, finding from the URL what is the customer server).
- Modify the skeleton directory of your accounts to include a symlink (I named it mail) into public_html, pointing to the physical installation of Eubimiau.
- Don’t forget to double check permissions, majorly on the database directory.
If you want to check out the scripts working, take a look at http://www.portofacil.com.br/mail and http://www.datatraining.com.br/mail. It is exactly the same set of scripts running in different locations. Since portofacil.com.br is an addon domain for portohost.com.br, you’ll see that the logon automatically changes to the correct domain name.
I must finish telling you that Uebimiau sucks for a hosting business, because it is POP, and it cannot take control of disk quotas (it has a predefined set inside the script, you can change, but it overpasses the mailbox settings). I think Squirrel is still the best webmail for WHM.
If you want to talk in Portuguese, directly with me, I’m sure you’ll be able to find my address!
Janio Sarmento
www.portofacil.com.br
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Excellent treatment to the customers!!
Keep up the good work, Janio!
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Thanks a lot!
It’s nice to get public compliments about our job.
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