Can SquirrelMail be set to serve on a port other than 16080? How?

Question

SquirrelMail serves OS X webmail on port 16080 out of the box. However, my company intranet has internet port 16080 closed... so, SquirrelMail is inaccessible. Can SM be set to serve on port 80? Is there a reason why it doesn't serve on this port by default? (I'm also running Tiger Server Apache web server on the same box; Rumpus FTP uses port 8000 for it's web serving.) Is SM a "web server" which would conflict with Apache on port 80.. is that the reason for port 16080? How can I change SM to serve on a port I can access from the office... like, say, 8010?

Answer 1

I tried this setup, Jeff... gets me to the login page fine... but doesn't seem to recognize any of my email logins (all which are virtual).
I have a website setup as MAIL.MYDOMAIN.COM... port 80...performance cache OFF... and pointing to /usr/share/squirrelmail. I tried these settings with OPTIONS-->WebMail both checked and unchecked. Doesn't seem to make any difference.
So, does the problem have to do with the fact that I have Mailstore partitions setup by domain, as per Alex's guide to Making Virtual Users?
As Alex mentioned, turn off the performance cache.
You can change the port in ServerAdmin to something
else (you mentioned 8010, which is fine).
You may need to create a seperate Site for Webmail if
you don't have one already.
To take this a step further....
My preferred (non-SSL) setup is this:
- Assuming you already have DNS of mail.domain.com
- Create a site for mail.domain.com (port 80)
- In Sites/General, port 80
- In Sites/General Web Folder
"/usr/share/squirrelmail"
- In Sites/Options, turn off Perf Cache.
If you do the above, when you hit
http://mail.domain.com
You will go straight to Squirrelmail without having
to add a /webmail to your url and without having to
use a different port #.
Jeff