Over the weekend I talking my son about the set up of this VPS and how it could be used to for setting up temporary email accounts to avoid spam. Even as I was talking aobut it though, I realized I didn’t have an easy method of providing other email users a way of managing their password. Not only that, but I figured he’d be disinclined to install Thunderbird just to get his junk mail account. No, what I needed was a web interface for email.

At first I went with squirrelmail, since I remember that was a piece of cake to set up. And it was easy to set up again this time around. However, I really did not like what I saw when it came to password maintenance integration. The plugins offered were ancient and opened up security issues I wasn’t comfortable with. Maybe squirrelmail was just too old of a project.

So I decided to go with roundcube. It took two efforts to get the installation wizard to function, but once it did it was pretty slick. I got the password plugin installed, but I had to get under the hood with dovecot passwd file driver. Looks like the author had attempted to replace existing lines with new password hashed using substr, but it just ended up appending the new data to the old data, effectively corrupting the passwd file. It was a simple fix once I determined which script was the culprit. I like the roundcube’s interface and it seems to be well-organized. 8/10 would recommend.