Snappy Mail

Snappy Mail is a simple, modern, lightweight & fast web-based email client. It is the successor of the long defunct RainLoop webmail client.

Get your release here

will install under /home/web/snappymail. Replace, in the following instruction, the URL and filename with the latest release:

mkdir -p /home/web/snappymail/frontend
cd /home/web/snappymail/frontend
wget https://github.com/the-djmaze/snappymail/releases/download/v2.38.2/snappymail-2.38.2.tar.gz
tar xvf snappymail-2.38.2.tar.gz 
find ./  -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find ./ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
chown -R web:web data

Move the data folder outside the document root can be a good idea. First of all, move it physically:

cd /home/web/snappymail
mv frontend/data .
mv frontend/_include.php frontend/include.php

Now edit the file frontend/include.php and add setup the following line:

define('APP_DATA_FOLDER_PATH', '/home/web/snappymail/data/');

The trailing “/” is very important.

webmail.conf

server {
        server_name webmail.mydomain.com;
        listen 443 ssl;

        index index.php;

        root /home/web/snappymail/frontend;

        access_log /var/log/nginx/webmail.mydomain.com_access_log main;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/webmail.mydomain.com_error_log info;

        location ~ /.*\.php$ {
                try_files $uri =404;
                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
                include fastcgi_params;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
                fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
                fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        }

        # Security headers
        add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15768000; includeSubDomains; preload;" always;
        add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;
        add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block" always;
        add_header X-Robots-Tag "none" always;
        add_header X-Download-Options "noopen" always;
        add_header X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies "none" always;
        add_header Referrer-Policy "no-referrer" always;
        add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN" always;
        fastcgi_hide_header X-Powered-By;

        index index.php;

        location ~ (^|/)\. {
                return 403;
        }

        location ~ ^/data/ {
            deny all;
        }
}

After restarting NGINX, go to https://webmail.mydomain.com/?admin, you need to login as user admin with the password found in the file: data/_data_/_default_/admin_password.txt.

Immediately change the password, and that file will be deleted.

You need to setup the domains you want to use in SnappyMail to allow users to login.