Webmail replacement Plesk 7.5

laughingbuddha · Fri May 16, 2008 9:26 am

Hi all,

I'm using a vps at webfusion the moment, and want to replace the webmail app on the Plesk 7.5 VPS with something that looks allot better than the current one.

Problem is the VPS doesn't have yum installed, so I need to some how get that on, and replace the default webmail app. Plus it's a live VPS with nearly 40 domains on it, so I don't really want to trash it in some spectacular yum/plesk mash up.

Any ideas, or more importantly as I'm a linux newbie instructions.

Cheers peeps.

Matt

Unread post by **scott** » Fri May 16, 2008 12:23 pm

If you run the atomic installer (wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic |sh ) it should restore yum for you.

laughingbuddha · Fri May 16, 2008 2:05 pm

Cool, thanks. I will give that ago. Hope it doesn't mash up the VPS though.

How do I go about replacing the default webmail system?

Matt

Unread post by **scott** » Sat May 17, 2008 9:09 am

No it just fixes some of the damage they do to it by default. Take a look at the old squirrelmail package I did a few years back for pointers (or just update it!).

laughingbuddha · Sat May 17, 2008 8:04 pm

Ok, how do I go about that?

Once I have the yum, should I run an update? If so (and I know this will sound dum) how?

Thanks for time scott,

Matt

laughingbuddha · Sat May 17, 2008 8:20 pm

Gutted, this old VPS POS is running Fedora Core 2. Nasty.

Tight buggers at WebFusion won't upgrade me unless I sign up to another VPS and move them over.

Gutted.

Matt

Unread post by **scott** » Sat May 17, 2008 10:33 pm

Ouch. I dont suppose they have some kind of kooky "rescue" mode do they? Damien from 1and1 (france) pointed me to something clever where users were replacing their fc4 VPS's with debian. They used some kind of "rescue mode" to do it.

It might be possible to come up with a AOOI type solution in that case. I've never had the time to really research that further than our discussion probably a year ago.

laughingbuddha · Sun May 18, 2008 4:35 pm

Ok, well thanks for your help any way.

I think I will leave it for now. What would be nice would be to find a vps I can use for a short while and leave WebFusion, but in an ideal world I would want a vps with 2 IPs so I can run a name server from it, because in September I will hopefully have my own server up and running.

Matt