Snappymail admin password

by wbk | 6 April 2025 21:08

• Initial admin password:
  • Does not exist during the installation of Snappymail.
  • Visit the admin page at https://sub.domain.tld/snappymail/app/?admin[1].
  • Log in to the server via SSH and navigate to /var/www/snappymail/app# cd data/_data_/_default_/.
  • It may take some time for the file to be created. Once it exists, you can open admin_password.txt in that directory.
  • Log in to the “Admin Panel” using admin as the login and the discovered password as the passphrase. TOTP is not initially configured.
  • You will be prompted to change the password.
  • Snappymail automatically removes the temporary password file.
• After forgetting the password:
  • An encrypted version of the password is stored in the config file located at /var/www/snappymail/app/data/_data_/_default_/configs/application.ini.
  • The property is named admin_password under the section “Login and password for the web admin panel”:
    • If the value is empty, you have not logged in yet. The password file is created after visiting the admin page.
    • If the value is filled, it means you have logged in before.
  • To generate a new password:
    • Delete the recorded password.
    • Visit the admin page again (possibly using a private browser window helps in some cases).
    • The file admin_password.txt will be automatically created shortly afterward.
  • Log in with the new password and the user mentioned as admin_login in application.ini (‘admin’ by default)
  • At the top of the page, a banner will suggest changing the password:
    • In addition to the password, you can also change the admin username.
    • Note that you also need the (new/temporary) current password.
    • The new username/password combination is saved in the previously mentioned application.ini file.
  • After changing the password, Snappymail automatically cleans up the temporary password file.

The last few times I needed the admin panel, was to remedy being unable to send mail (failed to add recipient 553 5.7.1 sender adresse rejected : not logged in).

Now that I want to reproduce the issue though, I’m unable: whether I set SMTP ‘Secure’ to ‘None’ or ‘STARTTLS’, and ‘Server’ to ‘localhost’ or ‘domain.tld’, I am still able to send email from Snappymail. This is an unforseen development, but does not change anything about steps to log in to the panel

Source URL: https://blog.osba.nl/en/2025/04/06/snappymail-admin-password/

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