Dev September 2012

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Release 0.8 (stable) with new skin is out
by Thomas Bruederli 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Hello folks, We're proud to finally announce the release of version 0.8 with the brand new skin, codename "Larry", becoming the new default UI for Roundcube. After two preview releases and a lot of fine-tuning, the new design by http://bueroflint.com has now grown up. But to all the nostalgics out there: don't worry! The old skin still remains part of the package and will be maintained for at least one more major release. Beside the new UI, this version also contains more bugfixes and mprovements (see ) as well as some code refactorings. Another major change since the last stable release is the updated license which is now GPL v3+ with exceptions for skin & plugins. Read more about that on http://roundcube.net/license After lots of testing and collecting your feedback, this version is considered stable and we recommend to update all productive installations of Roundcube. Get the new version from http://roundcube.net/download Finally, some important notes for sysadmins to deploy the new Roundcube: * The new skin brings an entirely new look to the webmail application. Please carefully plan a roll-out of the new version and prepare your users accordingly. * We're getting a lot of support requests from users who are under the impression that Roundcube is a public service such as Gmail or Hotmail. Unfortunately we cannot help these people and thus we'd like to encourage everybody to do some branding on your Roundcube installation. You can replace the logo by config (option 'skin_logo') and even more important: the new release now has an option named 'support_url' where everyone should fill in an URL to instructions how to get help for that specific installation of Roundcube. And last but not least: our recent partnership with the Kolab Groupware project is finally showing some results. The Kolab team just published a preview release of their all-new Kolab 3.0 groupware suite including Roundcube as the new web client. Enriched with nice new plugins, Roundcube gives easy access to all relevant groupware functions. Read more about Kolab at http://kolab.org/blog/grote/2012/08/07/alpha-kolab-3.0-and-roundcube-0.8-re… That's definitely worth celebrating, cheers! Thomas

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keep-alive changes
by A.L.E.C 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

Digging into session issues I've found this keep-alive thing a little bit overcomplicated and unclear. The keep-alive setting handles two things: session keeping and new-mail checking. Some plugins also bind to keep-alive to do some recurring actions (e.g. to display calendar alarms, etc.). I think we should split these functionalities. So keep-alive action should be used only for session keeping. In such case we need to execute keep-alive action only after some inactivity time (e.g. session_lifetime - 1min [or 5%]). It means timer should be resetted on every reequest. Also it means we don't need a separate config option, because the interval would be calculated from session_lifetime. For session_lifetime=0 there would be no keep-alive requests. Another thing is recurring check for new-mail. This would work as is, but... see below. Last but not least. We should provide some "global" recurring action which would work across all tasks so, plugins could bind to it. One "global" action to minimize session race-conditions when few plugins will create their own recurring requests on the same time. In mail task we could "bind" our check-recent action to this global action. In my opinion this would be a much clearer solution and would give as some additional possibilities: - possibility to disable recurring checks (for new mail etc.) at all, - better overall performance because keep-alive out of mail task will be executed less frequently I think also, we could rename keep_alive option description ("Check for new messages on") into something like "Update system state (check for new mail, etc.) on", and move it to User Interface section, so we could use it as our global action interval. ps. I'm not sure we should change draft auto-save interval in any way to fit into this. For simplicity would be nice to use the same global action and its interval. -- Aleksander 'A.L.E.C' Machniak LAN Management System Developer [http://lms.org.pl] Roundcube Webmail Developer [http://roundcube.net] --------------------------------------------------- PGP: 19359DC1 @@ GG: 2275252 @@ WWW: http://alec.pl

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adding topline to template_container hook
by Sébastien BLAISOT 11 Nov '12

11 Nov '12

Hi folks, Larry skin introduced topline (the line on top of screen showing About and support link on the left and username and logout link on the right). I want to make a plugin to add/change some information on that line without making a new skin. (first need is to add last login information) template_container hook seems to be just fine for that but unfortunately, this container doesn't exist in that call. Could it be possible to add that container to this hook ? Actually, I'm playing with template_object_username to change this part of the topline because it is not called anywhere else in larry skin, but I think this can broke other plugins or skins. regards, -- Sébastien BLAISOT

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PDO-based DB layer
by A.L.E.C 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

I've finished the new DB layer for Roundcube based on PHP PDO. It uses less memory (1.2 MB less) and should be faster than our old solution. The main differences: uses PDO modules, no prepared statements. Please, get 'pdo' branch and give it a try, so we could use this in 0.9. -- Aleksander 'A.L.E.C' Machniak LAN Management System Developer [http://lms.org.pl] Roundcube Webmail Developer [http://roundcube.net] --------------------------------------------------- PGP: 19359DC1 @@ GG: 2275252 @@ WWW: http://alec.pl

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New look of compose and message screens
by A.L.E.C 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

In last few changes I improved message display screen. So, now it looks the same as the preview frame. I think this way the UI looks more clean and unified. I hope you agree with me. This also matches the look of other tasks e.g. addressbook where white color is used for the whole contact information frame/box. Because I was never happy with that how mail compose screen looks like, the idea came to make the same with compose screen. I started to work on this. See attached screenshot. The main reason of this change is a unification, but it will fix some issues on compose screen. E.g. the whole compose box will be scrollable so there will be no problems with too small screen height (even with displayed all headers and options). Opinions? -- Aleksander 'A.L.E.C' Machniak LAN Management System Developer [http://lms.org.pl] Roundcube Webmail Developer [http://roundcube.net] --------------------------------------------------- PGP: 19359DC1 @@ GG: 2275252 @@ WWW: http://alec.pl

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sessions started on connect?
by Cor Bosman 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

Hey all, we use hardware loadbalancers that connect to apache to see if the server is still ok. It does not login. I just realised these do actually create sessions, causing problems with garbage collection :( select ip,count(ip) from session group by ip order by count desc; ip | count -----------------------------------------+------- 194.109.20.222 | 14321 194.109.20.221 | 14295 2001:888:0:22::4 | 4296 2001:888:0:22::3 | 4288 Are connects without login supposed to create a session? If so, why? This is with a relatively recent 0.7 from svn. Cor

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Add link to inbox overview on the logo
by Dominic Lüchinger 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Hello The new theme 'larry' removed the link on the logo that navigates back to the inbox overview. For me and I guess a lot of users it was convenient to click on the logo to go back to the inbox overview. This is how most of the websites work and kind of a common UI pattern. I could write a custom plugin to overcome this issue. What is the reasons behind the removal of the link? I think a link adds additional value and not interferes with the new design. Any other thoughts on this? PS: Next week we will switch our webmail from 0.7.3 to 0.8.1. Our current email user base is about 40k. 10k users have a last_login date within the latest 60 days. So far we are very happy to switch to the new skin. Good work!!! Regards Dominic

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How to mark a message unread?
by Rob Sheldon 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

Hi, I'm trying to mark a saved message unread in markasjunk2's cmd_learn driver. The set_flag() function appears to be succeeding, but the message is not showing up as unread in the user's inbox. (markasjunk2 won't detach spamassassin messages if you use its cmd_learn driver (and even if it did, it would choke on my spamassassin config, unfortunately).) I compared what I'm doing to the mail/mark.inc file, and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've reviewed the dev docs but didn't find anything helpful there. I was hoping somebody could point me in the right direction. Here's the current relevant code: // Got message to move as $message foreach ($message->parts as $part) { if ( array_key_exists('x-spam-type', $part->ctype_parameters) && $part->ctype_parameters['x-spam-type'] == 'original' ) { $saved = $storage->save_message('INBOX', $storage->get_message_part($message->uid, $part->mime_id, $part)); if ($saved !== false) { $storage->set_flag(array($saved), 'UNSEEN'); $rcmail->output->command('rcmail_markasjunk2_move', null, $uid); array_push($new_uids, $saved); } } } // $saved appears to be a good message UID, but maybe there's some other step missing that I'm not aware of? This code is being inserted into the ham() function in the current version of cmd_learn.php. Thanks. And btw, if this is the wrong list for questions like this, please let me know. - R. -- [__ Robert Sheldon [__ No Problem [__ Information technology support and services [__ (530) 575-0278

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Fwd: Add link to inbox overview on the logo
by S c o t t K r a m e r 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

+1 -------- Original Message -------- SUBJECT: [RCD] Add link to inbox overview on the logo DATE: 2012-09-07 13:57 FROM: Dominic Lüchinger <d.luechinger(a)snowgarden.ch> TO: dev(a)lists.roundcube.net REPLY-TO: Roundcube Development discussion mailing list <dev(a)lists.roundcube.net> Hello The new theme 'larry' removed the link on the logo that navigates back to the inbox overview. For me and I guess a lot of users it was convenient to click on the logo to go back to the inbox overview. This is how most of the websites work and kind of a common UI pattern. I could write a custom plugin to overcome this issue. What is the reasons behind the removal of the link? I think a link adds additional value and not interferes with the new design. Any other thoughts on this? PS: Next week we will switch our webmail from 0.7.3 to 0.8.1. Our current email user base is about 40k. 10k users have a last_login date within the latest 60 days. So far we are very happy to switch to the new skin. Good work!!! Regards Dominic _______________________________________________ Roundcube Development discussion mailing list dev(a)lists.roundcube.net http://lists.roundcube.net/mailman/listinfo/dev [1] Links: ------ [1] http://lists.roundcube.net/mailman/listinfo/dev

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logging in with wget (or curl)
by Benjamin Connelly 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

We are attempting to build some tools so we can track metrics (when our users' experience might be getting too slow and we need to add resources.) So we want to be able to script logging in to RoundCube and viewing an inbox (and measure the time it takes.) I figured we could use wget with --save-cookies and --keep-session-cookies to load the login page and get a cookie, then wget again with --load-cookies and --post-data to feed in all the form fields, including username and password, but now I've gotten myself very confused about the _token field in the form, and the roundcube_sessid string in the cookie (and the s=##### javascript stuff. . .) and haven't been able to get it working by flailing. Has anyone experience with this? Or is there documentation somewhere I could grok the whole login / session process? Or is this just not going to be possible without running some javascript? Thanks in advance, Benjamin

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