Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 586596
RFE: SquirrelMail for RHEL 6.0
Last modified: 2014-10-21 05:22:04 EDT
Description of problem: No SquirrelMail package is available for RHEL 6. How reproducible: No package available in the repo. Expected results: SquirrelMail is perhaps the most popular web-based email software used by businesses and hosting companies. Why has it been removed from RHEL 6? I attempted to install SquirrelMail 1.4.19 and 1.4.20 RPMs for Fedora 12, but these failed to install, reporting that it depended on package php-mbstring, but php-mbstring isn't available to install. I attempted to install SquirrelMail 1.4.20 from the tarball but it did not function when I entered the appropriate path into Firefox.
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux major release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Major release. This request is not yet committed for inclusion.
This feature request did not get resolved in time for Feature Freeze for the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release and has now been denied. You may re-open your request by requesting your support representative to propose it for the next release.
*** Bug 587880 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
After careful consideration, we have made the decision to not approve this request for including SquirrelMail in RHEL 6. In general, these decisions are based on insufficient business justification and lack of relevance to the larger RHEL platform community. We feel that it is most appropriate for this application to be part of EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux).
Product Management has reviewed and declined this request. You may appeal this decision by reopening this request.
In RHEL6.4, squirrelmail is running fine, I've used EPEL, rpmfusion free and non-free for EL6 in order to install squirrelmail and php-mbstring packages. An error occurs "ERROR: Could not complete request. Query: SELECT "INBOX" Reason Given: [SERVERBUG] Internal error occurred" refer server log for more information,from maillog I found the error "imap(user): Error: chown(/home/user/mail/.imap/INBOX, -1, 12(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1000(user), group based on /var/mail/user)" and this is due to dovecot issue, for that I do the following steps: 1) I edit dovecot configuration file: In /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf, type protocol imap { mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u } 2) # chmod 0600 /var/mail/$user after adding each user who need to access email over imap or, a) in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf uncomment the line mail_access_groups = mail and b) add user who need to access email over imap to mail group So, I think this is not a bug.