Webmail for Nuts

for nuts? no way! squirrelmail is actually quite fantastic and easily configurable! the hard part was getting it to work over my existing tomcat installation because it uses php and tomcat has no idea what that is.
first step: hide tomcat behind apache: huge thanks to galatea for an excellent guide on the installation (oh btw, the instructions on apache's own website suck!). it took me awhile to realise that apxs only comes with apache2-dev - but after that it was all smooth sailing ...
next: the actual squirrelmail install - this was surprisingly easy: apt-get rocks (and so does debian :-)) .
minutes later mail.prash.net was up and about, looking for nuts!