Squirrelmail And Multiple Identities Broken?

[wolvesb]

One feature that seemed highly useful to me is the "multiple identity" feature of squirrelmail.

 

I have one catch-all address ( something@****) - but wish to respond depending on which hat i am wearing ( admin@****, support@****).

 

Oddly, if I use:

http://****:2082/3rdparty/squirrel...src/webmail.php

this feature exists and works and all is well. Except for the problem that the port is blocked by firewalls (especially if I try to use https).

 

If I use:

http://****/sqmail/

its as if the feature never existed. No option to edit multiple identies, and no option in Compose to use them. Oh, but I can use this via https!

 

so..

1) Is there a way to access the ****:2082 tree through the standard server, with whatever obscure path prefix?

 

2) Is there any chance that multiple identities can be enabled for the /sqmail/ variant?

 

or, is my best bet to install my own Squirrelmail version and hope I have enough time to follow security advisories for it?

 

Thanks for any assistance/advice.

[TCH-Bruce]

Sorry, don't have an answer but welcome to the forums.

[wolvesb]

Thank you for the welcome.

 

I have been looking at option 3 - Install my own squirrelmail - which is the only one I think I have control over,

and am somewhat puzzled --

 

It seems that for Squirrelmail to work, that..

A) the squirrelmail folder has to be readable and writeable by all

and the squirrelmail data folders have to be readable/writeable by all.

 

So aside from trying to find some clever names for my squirrelmail folders, what are the implications of having the prefs and other information public? it feels "icky" to have my address book hanging in the open..

 

I suppose i'm only exposed to people on the same host?

[TCH-RobertM]

Hi wolvesb, Welcome to the forums.

Are you trying to do this all on the server side ?

I use Windows XP and have both outlook and thunderbird but I can set them up to recieve mail from different accounts and can even reply to them based upon the particular hat I am wearing..

 

maybe I misunderstood what your trying to accomplish here.

[TCH-Don]

Welcome to the Family wolvesb

 

and your new home!

 

are you saying that if you

log into domain/sqmail with one idenity

that you can't log out and

then log in again with another idenity?

if that is so, something is not right.

I do that all the time.

 

We really are like family here.

So if you need anything,

just ask your new family!

We love to help

[TCH-Thomas]

Welcome to the forums

[wolvesb]

Thank you all for the kind welcome.

 

I am unable to reach IMAP due to a restrictive firewall (that also blocks HTTPS to non443 ports).

 

I'd like to read IMAP mail without snickering coworkers in the IT department knowing just how pathetic I am.

 

Thus, I am trying to use squirrelmail.

 

Now, the problem:

I want to use the "multiple identities" feature of squirrel mail.

This is under the Options->Personal in Squirrelmail -- when I go in from CPANEL

It is not there under the /sqmail/ one.

 

I think its a setting in config.php ( Edit_Identity?!)

 

If I install my own squirrelmail, then I have to leave the sqmail data files open to anyone to read? Is this correct?

 

 

Thanks for any advice on this..