W3Mail Installation

Installation of W3Mail 1.0 (Windows)

System Requirements:

Pentium class computer running Windows NT 4.0 or later
256mb memory

Webserver

If you do not yet have a webserver installed on your server, download and install the latest version of Apache from: http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32.

Perl (5.005 or later)

W3Mail is written in Perl, a highly popular language for web applications. You can download Perl for Windows at:

http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/

Perl Modules

The following modules are required by W3Mail:

§ Digest-MD5

§ IO-stringy

§ MIME-tools

§ MailTools

§ MIME-Base64

§ Mail-Sender

§ Mail-POP3Client

You may automatically install these modules by running installModules.bat from the command line.

Once your system meets the requirements, run perl install.pl from the command line to install W3Mail.

This program will walk you through installation step by step, creating required directories and copying files to their appropriate directories. In addition it will configure W3Mail for your settings by automatically generating w3mail.conf. You may edit w3mail.conf to change your settings at any time.

Directories install.pl creates:

Installation Directory – This is the directory where W3Mail is to be installed. This needs to be in the CGI-BIN portion of your webserver, typically C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\cgi-bin\w3mail
Data Directory – This directory holds all user data including preferences, attachments, and outgoing messages. This directory does not need to reside in your httpd documents section, and can be located anywhere on your system.
Mime Directory – This directory temporarily holds sent and received MIME file attachments. It must be located the documents portion of your webserver, typically C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\htdocs\mime
Images Directory – This directory contains images used by W3Mail, and must be in the documents section of your webserver as well.

Installation of W3Mail 1.0 (Unix)