Hastymail2 : Simple IMAP webmail client using Nginx & PHP5

Step 0 : Purchase new VPS, if required. If you already have a VPS running Nginx with PHP enabled, skip to Step 4.

Step 1 : Install Debian and slim down your shiny new VPS (inspired by the famous article on LEB and lowendscript)

wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/lowendbox/lowendscript/raw/master/setup-debian.sh

bash setup-debian.sh system

Step 2 : Install Nginx with the lowendscript

bash setup-debian.sh nginx

Step 3 : Install PHP5 with the lowendscript

bash setup-debian.sh php

Step 4 : Configure your webserver

In /etc/nginx/sites-available/, create a file such as yourfqdn.tld. The contents of this file should be something similar to this basic php enabled website configuration:

server {

server_name yourfqdn.tld;

root /path/to/your/document/root/;


include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_php;

location / {

    index index.php;

}

}

Symlink your configuration file to the sites-enabled folder.

ln –s /etc/nginx/sites-available/yourfqdn.tld /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yourfqdn.tld

Restart nginx so it's ready to accept the newly configured site.

/etc/init.d/nginx restart

Step 5 : Install Hastymail2

Follow the simple instructions at http://www.hastymail.org/install.

Note that on a typical Debian distribution, the webserver runs as www-data.

Step 5 : Fire up your browser and point it to your newly installed Hastymail2 installation and voila!

Have fun with a lightweight, full featured IMAP/SMTP PHP webmail client without wasting precious low end VPS resources on a database engine!

See feature set at http://www.hastymail.org/.