If you have installed ispconfig by following http://www.howtoforge.com/  then you have also installed squirrel mail. You may face attachment problem, Saying data directory is not writable. Here is the solution.

First in terminal run this command:

choose 4 (General Options) and press Enter.

Check the directories.

Type “Q” to quit.

Now Check the user:group of data folder.

Use www-data (if you are using nginx and ispconfig and you don’t wanna give permission to any other vhost to access squirrelmail then you have to use ispconfig:ispconfig instead of www-data:www-data ).

Now give read-write access.

Now create an attachment page in “/usr/share/squirrelmail/”

Set permission.

Now make sure you have created the “tmp” directory.

and permission is set to “www-data” group.

Now restart nginx

or Restart Apache

 Whole procedure can be done by a simple command as i have created a shell script which can be executed to give the solution without much headache.

The code is:

That is it. Hope it will solve your problem. 🙂

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