Mark Porthouse Technical FAQ

If Outlook Express blocks access to an attachment

SquirrelMail can be found here: http://www.squirrelmail.org/
Upack the SquirrelMail archive (perhaps squirrelmail-1.4.5.tar.gz) into the web directory on your webserver/mailserver. This will create a squirrelmail directory which you may wish to rename - perhaps to ‘email’ or something.
These instructions are taken from the SquirrelMail install doc:
- Select a data-dir and attachment dir, outside the webtree (e.g. in […]

SquirrelMail can be found here: http://www.squirrelmail.org/
Upack the SquirrelMail archive (perhaps squirrelmail-1.4.5.tar.gz) into the web directory on your webserver/mailserver. This will create a squirrelmail directory which you may wish to rename - perhaps to ‘email’ or something.
The remaining instructions are taken from the SquirrelMail install doc:
- Select a data-dir and attachment dir, outside the webtree (e.g. […]

Ensure that the Procmail rpm is installed on your system

To install Acrobat Reader 7.0 get the rpm .tar.gz file from

To achieve a comprehensive mailserver setup to enable access to email from a number of different clients on different machines on both the local network and from the internet

Install Fetchmail from the rpm in
Mandrake Control Center>Software Management>Install Software
and also install fetchmailconf
edit the file:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/fetchmail
changing the line
daemon fetchmail -d ${FETCHMAIL_POLL:-180} -f /etc/fetchmailrc
to
daemon fetchmail -d ${FETCHMAIL_POLL:-30} -f /etc/fetchmailrc
where 180 and 30 are the polling interval in seconds - basically you can set how often Fetchmail checks (and fetches mail from) the mail servers.
Run fetchmailconf
Menu>System>Configuration>Other>Fetchmailconf
This […]

The K Menu is the menu system that appears when you click on the ‘Menu’ button

This post gives instructions on how to resize your images with a simple double click - specifically for uploading to web sites or emailing.

In order to play DVD movies on Linux (Mandriva) you need an application such as Kaffeine