Hello!
After much discussion across the discourse board here, I have seen quite a few of you want to be able to use webmail in NextCloud, and some specifically wanting RainLoop. Here is a step by step for those interested.
NOTE: This is an unsupported modification, so not a lot of people will help you if you run into problems, but I have been using this setup for over a year now with no issues. Just continue at your own risk!
NOTE2: This guide assumes you have MiaB setup already and working!
Steps
Login to the server via SSH, and run: bash /home/YOURUSERNAME/mailinabox/tools/owncloud-unlockadmin.sh admin@box.example.com (Change that email to the admin email you setup during install)
Click on your icon on the top right, you will see 2 new options +Apps & Admin, click +Apps.
After it loads (Can take up to a minute, it is downloading an app list from NextCloud) go to the Social & Communications tab.
Click on Enable under the RainLoop app.
After enabling in NextCloud, go to NextCloud Admin panel (Click your icon in the top right, then select Admin), “Additionnal settings” and you will see a “Rainloop webmail” section. There, click on the link to go to the Rainloop admin panel. The default user/password is admin/12345. Also make sur ein the NextCloud admin that Automatically login with Nextcloud user credentials is CHECKED and hit save!
in the RainLoop admin panel and then select the Domains tab. And input(the wild card is not needed if you only use 1 domain!):
A new icon will appear in the NextCloud navbar, this is the RainLoop web mail, if all is configured, you should be logged in automatically and see your email!
Why would you want this? It allows you to use 1 interface for email, contacts, calendar, & files! RainLoops support CalDAV & CardDAV but that is outside the scope of this tutorial (for now).
Security Notices
Change the RainLoop admin password after login!
Do not install RainLoop plugins if you don’t need them!
Keep RainLoop up to date when NextCloud notifies you of an app update for it!
I’ve had RainLoop setup since v0.26 and upgraded to v0.26c yesterday. Still works as expected
I suspect as long as MIAB doesnt remove NextCloud, the app and settings should stay intact. 0.26c had the Nextcloud update too so even the NC update kept the app.
Nice, I’ll give it a try. I find the built-in web-mail client a little lacking. I’ll take a snapshot of my VM before running the v0.26c update, and then make this mod. v0.26b broke the DNS on my VM and caused fail-2-ban to use 100% CPU on 2 of my 4 cores. Only noticed it when clients started saying that they could not connect.
Luckily I had a good back up, but it was still a long sleepless night to get back up for my clients. Serves me right for upgrading without taking a snapshot.
Thank you!!! I was looking for away so my employees would have only one spot for everything. I tried the mail app but missing a lot of features. Unless, the app is an official Nextcloud app I don’t consider it. So glad you recommended it.
@murgero
2018/02/21 05:53:48 [error] 2154#0: *188 “/home/user-data/www/xxxxxx.com/index.php/apps/rainloop/app/index.html” is not found (2: No such file or directory), client: 192.168.110.100, server: xxxxx.com, request: “GET /index.php/apps/rainloop/app/?admin HTTP/1.1”, host: "xxxxx.com"
2018/02/21 05:53:57 [error] 2154#0: *139 “/home/user-data/www/default/index.php/apps/rainloop/app/index.html” is not found (2: No such file or directory), client: 192.168.110.100, server: box.xxxxxx.com, request: “GET /index.php/apps/rainloop/app/?admin HTTP/1.1”, host: "box.f2f10.com"
2018/02/21 05:54:52 [error] 2154#0: *188 “/home/user-data/www/xxxx.com/index.php/apps/rainloop/app/index.html” is not found (2: No such file or directory), client: 192.168.110.100, server: xxxxx.com, request: “GET /index.php/apps/rainloop/app/?admin HTTP/1.1”, host: “xxxxxx.com”
