How to Enable/Disable SquirrelMail webmail on a cPanel/WHM Server

Note : Below steps will Disable SquirrelMail webmail for all cPanel accounts on your server. (Disable SquirrelMail server-wide)

First you should login to WHM (webhost manager) to Disable SquirrelMail webmail server-wide.

1. Open a web browser and type the url https://yourserverIP:2087 to login WHM control panel.
 

Enter server root login details in the username and password field to login WHM.
 

2. Click on “Tweak Settings” under “Server Configuration”

Home »Server Configuration »Tweak Settings
 

3. Under “Mail” tab there is option to Enable/Disable SquirrelMail webmail.
 

By default “Enable SquirrelMail webmail” option will be enabled on all cPanel servers. Select the radio button “Off” to disable SquirrelMail and select “On” radio button to Enable SquirrelMail for all cPanel accounts.

4. Do not forget to click on save after making changes in tweak settings.

It is possible to Enable/Disable SquirrelMail webmail from server backend. Log into your Linux Server via SSH as root. Edit the file “/var/cpanel/cpanel.config” using vi editor and change the line “skiproundcube=0” to “skiproundcube=1”. 0 = Enabled, 1 = Disabled
 

Restart cPanel service after making changes in “cpanel.config” file.

Command to restart cPanel service : #service cPanel restart