So like many other organizations mine was finally fed up with Horde as a webmail system. They had used squirrel mail in the past and was unimpressed by the graphical interface but admitted that it while it lacked glamour it always did perform as they would have expected. Before I had started there their mail system was running on a Linux box using Plesk and running Horde as their primary webmail interface. Immediately I got them into an XServe running OSX mail since their entire organization consisted of Apple iMacs figured it was the way to go, and got them setup with Squirrelmail and Roundcube.

I found Roundcube to be extremely easy to setup, however sort of hard to configure and tweak for use on an OSX Server. The biggest drawback to the old mail system was that while everyone had email accounts they were local accounts meaning their was no LDAP database at work so there was no way to have an auto complete or global LDAP address book that most of the people at our organization really craved. I decided that when moving to 10.6.2 we would have to get this feature established and I am documenting this here clearly as I found there was limited documentation for and I know there are many people using 10.6.2 and Roundcube together.

Once Roundcube is installed head over to main.inc.php in the Roundcube config directory. I wanted the user to have access to the LDAP address book and also have the ability to have their own so on this line make sure that SQL is chosen as the primarty type of address book if this is your intent. Read more..