Has anyone managed to install openwebmail on their plesk box, I have just had my first go and I get :

'/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/openwebmail/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail.pl' must setuid to root

I just installed it in a domain for test purposes so that I didn't have to create an alias until it worked ...

Please could someone please try and help me ...
I've got no idea how to use setuid or if this is rearly the problem ...

Anyone know any webmail programs that accept html format emails and are easy to install for a whole server ?

If a program insists to be setuid root, then it is not meant to be installed by user. If you have root access, try chown it to root, and chmod it u+s to make it setuid root.

Thanks, but I had already uploaded it as root maybe this is the problem ... It did not mention anything in the instructions about needing this either !

Originally posted by hoot
Thanks, but I had already uploaded it as root maybe this is the problem ... It did not mention anything in the instructions about needing this either !

If I remember correctly Openwebmail uses suidperl. Did you download the source tarball? I specifically remember it saying that you had to untar it with specific flags to keep the suid bits on
specific files.

Yes I untared it as they said, I rember thinking that the directives were strange, but it had no instructions for PLESK servers, only for redhat linux which I modifies the best I could with the knowlege I had to work with plesk but plesk changes alot of thing (placements , usernames etc ...).
I've also tried to install squerrilmail and I can manage to get it working well on one domain but not for all the virtual domains at the same time (when I install the vhost plugin it stops excepting my password and when I use an alias in the httpd.conf it shows errors that were not there before ...
Well I guess that I'm going to have to stick with the very basic version of IMP that is installed with plesk for the moment .... it's not even upgradable !

Thanks