EnSpeed WebMail Virtual Appliance

The EnSpeed WebMail Virtual Appliance is a CentOS/RoundCube WebMail front end to an existing IMAP Email Server. It does not include a SMTP Mail server or an IMAP server. Given the IP Address or Hostname of an IMAP Server, it provides a web front end to that IMAP Server.

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REQUIREMENTS FOR THE VMWARE VIRTUAL APPLIANCE:

• VM Host Computer
  
  1. VMware Virtual Machine Monitor Software
     1. VMware Server with VMWare Server Console on Linux/Windows XP
     2. VMware Player on Linux/Windows XP
  2. 512M of free memory
  3. 4 Gigabytes or more of disk space
  
  
• IMAP Server


1. An IMAP Server


• A DHCP or Static IP Address for the EnSpeed WebMail Virtual Appliance


1. IP Address, Netmask, Default gateway and DNS Server information,
2. or, a DHCP Server that will hand out an IP address to this Virtual Appliance

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE XEN VIRTUAL APPLIANCE:

• VM Host Computer
  
  1. VM Host Server with Intel VT or AMD Pacifica (This is a fully virtualized Xen VM)
  2. Xen Virtual Machine Monitor Software - One of the following:
     1. EnSpeed VMM with LiveSync. EnSpeed VMM users may directly download this appliance into the EnSpeed VM Orchestrator using the built in Virtual Appliance browser. Read more about the EnSpeed Virtualization Platform here
     2. CentOS 5.0
     3. RedHat 5.0
  3. 512M of free memory
  4. 4 Gigabytes or more of disk space
  
  
• IMAP Server


1. An IMAP Server


• A DHCP or Static IP Address for the EnSpeed WebMail Virtual Appliance


1. IP Address, Netmask, Default gateway and DNS Server information,
2. or, a DHCP Server that will hand out an IP address to this Virtual Appliance

INSTALLATION:

1	Download the EnspeedWebMailVA file.
2	Unrar or Untar it into a directory with at least 4 Gigabytes of free space
3	If this appliance is to be hosted on Windows, double click on the "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.vmx" file
4	If this appliance is being hosted in Linux/VMware Server, then register the vmx with the VMware server using the command "vmware-cmd -s register full_path_name_to_the_vmx_file". Use the VMware Server console (vmware-server-console) program that is supplied as part of the "vmware-server-linux-console" package from vmware. Please note that the vmware server web UI, i.e. the vmware-mui package does not work with this Virtual Appliance. The following is a screen capture with the Virtual Appliance running in Vmware Server under Windows XP SCREEN CAPTURE 1 Click here to view Enlarged Image
5	The Virtual Appliance starts up and displays the single configuration and status page. At this point, please configure networking for the Virtual Appliance. You may choose a static IP Configuration as shown in Screen Capture 2 below. SCREEN CAPTURE 2 Click here to view Enlarged Image
6	Alternatively, you may choose to configure the Virtual Appliance for a DHCP IP address, as seen in Screen Capture 3 below. Note that in this case the edit boxes for entering the Static IP Address and associated parameters are disabled. SCREEN CAPTURE 3 Click here to view Enlarged Image
7	Once the Network Configuration is saved, and the web browser returns to the main page, enter the IMAP Server hostname or IP address and press the "Configure IMAP Server" button. You can also choose to use a SSL connection from the webmail server to the IMAP server. This is a useful option to try if your login attempts fail with the message "Login failed"
8	Open a web browser and point it at the IP Address you provided for the EnSpeed WebMail Virtual Appliance. You are presented with the following login page to the webmail client. Use your IMAP server’s login and password. SCREEN CAPTURE 4 Click here to view Enlarged Image
9	Once, logged in, you have access to your email. SCREEN CAPTURE 5 Click here to view Enlarged Image