Re: [Somewhat OT] FreeBSD and Squirrelmail

From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2022 06:55:08 UTC
On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 6:44 AM Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> wrote:

> On 3/2/22 20:53, John Levine wrote:
> > It appears that Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> said:
> >>
> >> I have long used Squirrelmail as a web mail client on FreeBSD systems.
> >> I recently attempted an upgrade of PHP7 (that failed) and then tried
> >> installing PHP7 and then PHP8 using package management.  In both
> >> these cases I see this error even though there absolutely is a
> >> config file present on the machine:
> >>
> >> ERROR: Config file ' . '"config/config.php" not found. You need to ' .
> 'configure SquirrelMail before you can use it.
> >>
> >> Has anyone else run into this and/or have a fix?
> >
> > Did you run the config script like it says to when you install the
> package? I installed
> > squirrelmail from the package and used the config script to set the
> > server addresses and it works OK, although it seems a lot buggier than
> > roundcube.
> >
> > R's,
> > John
>
> Yes - and also tried using a known good config file
>

May I suggest something different?
1. https://sourceforge.net/projects/group-office/ - I usually do a manual
install, but it's also available as /usr/ports/www/groupoffice/
2. SOGo - /usr/ports/www/sogo - another very nice webmail/groupware

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