How to Send & Receive With POP3 on SquirrelMail

SquirrelMail is an open mail system.

SquirrelMail is an open standards-based webmail program that is built in PHP. It supports IMAP and SMTP protocol and has few requirements to run. It doesn't need for JavaScript, and is compatible on all web browsers. POP3 is supported by SquirrelMail, but only on the receiving end, meaning you can receive POP3 mail through SquirrelMail but you can not send POP3 mails. Receiving POP3 uses the Mail Fetch Plugin, which is already bundled with the SquirrelMail software. However, you will need to have an IMAP server running over POP3 to retrieve it.

Things You'll Need

• Computer
• Internet Browser
• Internet Connection

Instructions

1. Install SquirrelMail by opening up your Unix console and typing in:

   $ pacman -S squirrelmail

2. Set up the SMTP before POP program to retrieve POP3 emails in your SquirrelMail by typing in:

   $ wget http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/popbsmtp/pop-before-smtp-1.38.tar.gz

   $ tar zxvf pop-before-smtp-*.tar.gz

   $ cd pop-before-smtp-*

   Replacing the version numbers with the most current software numbers.

3. Go into the options setting of SquirrelMail and add the information to your POP3 account to the settings there.

4. Send a test message to your POP3 account and check if it is retrieved with SquirrelMail. If the message is not retrieved check that you correctly typed the email address information you are trying to retrieve from.

References

• Hypexr: Linux Mail Server
• SquirrelMail: SquirrelMailPop
• SquirrelMail: SquirrelMail Administrator's Manual