Roundcube is a free and open-source webmail software that allows users to send and receive emails. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Roundcube on macOS.
Before installing Roundcube, you need to ensure that the following prerequisites are met:
If you have not installed Apache, PHP, and MySQL/MariaDB on your macOS, you can follow these commands to install them with the brew command:
brew update
brew install apache2
brew install php
brew install mariadb
Once installed, start the Apache and MariaDB services with the following commands:
sudo apachectl start
sudo /usr/local/bin/mysql.server start
Before creating a database for Roundcube, it is recommended to secure your MariaDB installation by running the following command:
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Then, log in to your MariaDB server with the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p
You will be prompted to enter your MariaDB root password. Once logged in, create a new database, user, and grant all privileges to the user for the Roundcube installation:
CREATE DATABASE roundcubenet;
CREATE USER roundcubeuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON roundcubenet.* TO roundcubeuser@localhost;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit
Once you have downloaded Roundcube from https://roundcube.net/download, extract the files and move them to your Apache web server document root, which is /Library/WebServer/Documents/ by default.
cd ~/Downloads
unzip roundcubemail-x.y.z-complete.zip
sudo mv roundcubemail-x.y.z /Library/WebServer/Documents/webmail
Then, rename the Roundcube configuration file and edit it with your database connection details:
sudo mv /Library/WebServer/Documents/webmail/config/config.inc.php.sample /Library/WebServer/Documents/webmail/config/config.inc.php
sudo nano /Library/WebServer/Documents/webmail/config/config.inc.php
Change the following lines in the config file to match your database connection details:
$config['db_dsnw'] = 'mysql://roundcubeuser:yourpassword@localhost/roundcubenet';
Finally, change the ownership and permissions of the Roundcube folder to the Apache web server user with the following command:
sudo chown -R _www:_www /Library/WebServer/Documents/webmail
sudo chmod -R 755 /Library/WebServer/Documents/webmail
Once you have completed the above steps, you can access Roundcube by visiting the following URL in your web browser: http://localhost/webmail/
You should now be able to log in to Roundcube with your email credentials.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Roundcube on macOS. Now that you have Roundcube installed, you can use it to send and receive emails.
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