Dev September 2013

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Plugins, $config and RC 1.0
by Michael Heydekamp 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

Hi there, we're unsure and a bit confused about how to handle the plugin configs in our 1.0-git test environment: 1) Almost all plugins do still use the legacy "$rcmail_config" array in their .dist file, rather than "$config". Do we need to manually run a search/replace across all config.inc.php(.dist)? 2) The plugin 'password' for instance does already use the "$config" array in it's config.php.dist. But this is not being reflected in config.inc.php (shouldn't there be some sort of automatism?). 3) Furthermore, the same plugin 'password' does contain a number of new config settings in .dist - but also those did not find their way into the .php file. So we have to merge them into .php as well? If so: Hmmm, I have seen (and even developed) more convenient and automated ways of updating configs already, but that was decades ago under DOS/16... ;) JFTR: The 'password' plugin is just an arbitrary example, the same may/will most likely apply to other plugins as well. But 'password' is just the first one where we recognized that "$config" is being used at least in the .dist file already. Any helpful advice appreciated. Cheers, -- Michael Heydekamp Co-Admin freexp.de Düsseldorf/Germany

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Pulgin: Sub menues how-to?
by Benoit Panizzon 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Hello I'm writing a plugin to be able to configure some custom quirks of our email solution. I would need to do sub-menues, similar to the 'Preferences' where you have submenues for 'User Interface','mailbox view', etc. Just writing a simple plugin based on the 'spamassassin' plugin, was not too hard. But how do I create sub-menues within a plugin? I couldn't find any template or documentation. Also no other plugins seem to use sub-menues (Well, the sieve filter plugin does for filter-sets etc. but that is done in a way I don't understand). Is there a plug-in that does sub-menues in an easy way I could use as a template? Could someone help me with a simple template? Kind regards Benoit Panizzon -- I m p r o W a r e A G - ______________________________________________________ Zurlindenstrasse 29 Tel +41 61 826 93 07 CH-4133 Pratteln Fax +41 61 826 93 02 Schweiz Web http://www.imp.ch ______________________________________________________

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larry notifications
by Cor Bosman 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

Hey all, I'm probably just unable to find it, but is there a way to get more visible notifications in larry from plugins? If I send an error notification, I get a nice large error box that animates away, but if I send a notice, i only get a green font message in the status bar of the iframe. This is barely visible on larger screens because it's relatively far away from the action that creates the notice. Can I get an animated/faded notice box saying something succeeded ok? Regards, Cor

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preferences tab/section
by Cor Bosman 25 Sep '13

25 Sep '13

Hey all, I'm wondering if there are some docs that explain how to create a new tab for preferences, where if you click on the tab, you get a listbox where multiple plugins could register for a row. Basically imitating how the settings-tab works. Ideally the plugins would not have to worry about the tab, but could just register their own section on that tab. Am I going to have to reverse engineer how the settings-tab does this, and code this all myself, or is there some existing structure I could use? Regards, Cor

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Documentation efforts
by Thomas Bruederli 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

Hello folks One item on the 1.0 roadmap is to improve documentation for Roundcube. I recently started some efforts to achieve this. Now I'd like to ask you for proof-reading, review and contribution. First, I tried to clean the wiki pages that describe Roundcube's installation, configruation and upgrading. Please review the pages from the Trac wiki [1] listed under "Getting Started". As you can see, there are still some "TBD." present. Also, the FAQ page is totally outdated and should be re-written completely. Everybody is welcome to make corrections and additions directly on the wiki. Second, I started to write some end-user documentation AKA online help. The pages are written in reST and generated with Sphinx which I found to be very handy for this task. I therefore created a new git repository [2] where all the sources are maintained and tried to summarize it in the README file and on our wiki [3]. The help docs are structured in a way to allow additional contents from plugins to be integrated. The idea behind all this is to provide a framework what will let you generate your individual online help files that describe all the components you chose for your Roundcube installation, even with screenshots from your custom skins. The generated files can then be linked into the help plugin with context-sensitive deep-links [4]. A first release of the online help for version 0.9 can be found here: http://roundcube.net/doc/help/0.9/en_US/ Again, I'd like to invite you all to read through these documents and make corrections or additions by sending pull requests to the roundcube/roundcubemail-helpdocs github repository. Once we feel comfortable with the English version, translation into other languages can start. Thank you all for your support! Thomas P.S. The help docs as you can see them online are sponsored by Kolab Systems and the Kolab Groupware project as they basically paid me for writing them. Thanks a lot for this, guys! [1] http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki [2] https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail-helpdocs [3] http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Online_Help [4] https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/blob/master/plugins/help/config.…

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Codebase cleanup, PSR-1/2 compliance - and before you say no, I'm offering to do the work
by David Deutsch 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

Hey everybody, I'm David and I would like to help out. Starting on any project, it's usually best to get familiar with the codebase. Now - I really enjoy combing through and cleaning up codebases and that's usually a great way to do just that. To give an example, I've recently done this to RedBeanPHP, you can check out the details here: Discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/redbeanorm/S8EnZTIZPDE Repository: https://github.com/gabordemooij/redbean Pull Requests: https://github.com/gabordemooij/redbean/pull/281 https://github.com/gabordemooij/redbean/pull/282 https://github.com/gabordemooij/redbean/pull/289 So - in a nutshell, that's what I'm offering to do for Roundcube. Examples, picked at random: /plugins/archive/archive.php Original: https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/blob/master/plugins/archive/arch… Cleanup: https://gist.github.com/daviddeutsch/6285028 /installer/rcube_install.php Original: https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/blob/master/installer/rcube_inst… Cleanup: https://gist.github.com/daviddeutsch/6285286 /program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_vcard.php Original: https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/blob/master/program/lib/Roundcub… Cleanup: https://gist.github.com/daviddeutsch/6285504 All as one commit: https://github.com/daviddeutsch/roundcubemail/commit/568051120f98070b554bc0… I like code concise and self explanatory. I think if there are more than three indents (within a function), you can usually simplify the code and make it easier to understand while you're at it. I actually, weirdly, enjoy a 80 character line limit and while I usually prefer tabs (I disagree with PSR-2 on that), I'm fine coding with 4 spaces for indentation. I'd be happy to accommodate to special customs, of course, although I do think that sticking to PSR - flawed as it may be in spots - really helps enable collaboration by convention. Let me know if this sounds like something that would at all be welcome in this project. best regards, David Deutsch

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13 Sep '13

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Session Class Questions
by Rodrigo Castillo 12 Sep '13

12 Sep '13

I'm exploring the rcmail_session class to hunt down some intermittent issues with untimely session expiration, and to develop a better remember_me extension (or attempt to get it into core...). I came across the following code ... /** * Setter for session lifetime */ public function set_lifetime($lifetime) { $this->lifetime = max(120, $lifetime); // valid time range is now - 1/2 lifetime to now + 1/2 lifetime $now = time(); $this->now = $now - ($now % ($this->lifetime / 2)); } ... /** * Create session cookie from session data * * @param int Time slot to use */ function _mkcookie($timeslot) { $auth_string = "$this->key,$this->secret,$timeslot"; return "S" . (function_exists('sha1') ? sha1($auth_string) : md5($auth_string)); } ... /** * Check session authentication cookie * * @return boolean True if valid, False if not */ function check_auth() { ... if ($result && $this->_mkcookie($this->now) != $this->cookie) { ... } It's quite deliberate, and it made me curious as to the reasoning behind the decision not to simply include a 'created_at' and 'expires_at' within the cookie, which would simplify the validation of the timespan. Is the reason for security, or perhaps a load-balancing?

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Quotas not updating
by Bruce Markey 11 Sep '13

11 Sep '13

Sorry if this isn't the place to ask this.. I'm having one little issue and I'm hoping it's just something I'm doing wrong. Running postfix/dovecot/vimbadmin. Quotas work just fine. They display fine. Except when I went to change some users storage space this is not reflected in roundcube. Space was changed in vimbadmin, its reflected in the mysql table so all is well there. When I hover over the bar in roundcube it shows the previous amount. Is this a cache thing or does it pull that amount every time I log in. Thank you. Bruce Markey -- Please use PGP, ENCRYPT everything. For information about acquiring a secryption.com account, email me. My public key: https://www.secryption.com/BruceMarkey.asc or https://keyserver.pgp.com

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Update 0.9.4 release
by Thomas Bruederli 09 Sep '13

09 Sep '13

Dear Roundcube lovers! It wouldn't be Roundcube if there wasn't a minor glitch in our stable releases every now and then :-) It so happened again in the recent 0.9.3 release where the new include_path check triggered some regex warnings on Windows systems. We apologize for this inconvenience! But we're trying hard to keep up and here's a new release which fixes that nasty bug together with some other reported issues that we considered worth being ported to the 0.9 release series. It's considered stable (really!) and we recommend to update all productive installations of Roundcube with this version. Download it from http://roundcube.net/download, see the full changelog in our wiki: http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog Kind regards, Thomas

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