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I just installed RoundCube, but I'm having difficulties configuring it. I've dovecot, postfix with MySQL installed and it's all running nice and dandy, but I would like to attach a web-mail to it.

When I visit the RoundCube webmail, I get this:


Unable to connect to the database!
Please contact your server-administrator.

It's most likely because I've this code in /etc/roundcube/debian-db.php, but I know for sure that I don't have such database with such user created:


What I would like RoundCube to do is to use the existing user mailbox information any everything as it's used with dovecot and postfix. What should I do in RoundCube to make that work? I'm on Linux Debian Lenny.

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How about reading the documentation? Also, the fact that there is a database configuration file is a good hint that you need to create a database if the debian package didn't create one.

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I already read it, but why to create a database when I've a postfix database with the user mailboxes and stuff already? What will this RoundCube database have? How to link it with it? –  Richards Jul 9 '11 at 12:37
Roundcube needs it to store (per user) preferences that cannot be stored via IMAP. If you don't want a MySQL server for this, you can also use SQLite. –  Sven Jul 9 '11 at 13:49
Thank you, that and installing correct roundcube mysql package did the trick. –  Richards Jul 9 '11 at 17:21

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