ive been using roundcube for a while, but always seem to have a problem after another.
today i enjoyed the most bizarre of these. (actually these have been on going)
fyi: cvs roundcube qmail-smtpd bincimap imap server
Pure CVS: after logging in i can send 1 message fine, any other message i try to send my browser sits there with the spinning logo "Sending Message" even after my smtpd log sends the message and disconnects the client from 127.0.0.1.
CVS + my identity-reply patch: every other message i send roundcube brings me back the the message list BUT:
- does NOT send my mail.
- does NOT bring me back to the compose screen.
- does NOT save the mail in anyway.
- does NOT give any message via logs/sendmail.
- does NOT give any message via logs/errors.
- does NOT even tell me it failed to send my mail.
(this is tested the past week+)
i also have an issue where ONLY every OTHER email i try to send gets sent. and the others give me no error/warning of ANY kind. im gonna try this without my patch later, but i HIGHLY doubt that is of any issue here. (yes, i had to type THIS VERY email twice, and attempt to send it 5+ times to get it to work)
now im experiencing roundcube throwing up the 'Invalid or Timedout Session' message
while i was composing a message (this one in fact,) and another time when it was
sitting idle on one of the message list windows.
the more i update roundcube the more unstable it gets, and the more pure oddities i see that should never be seen in any type of software :x
<flame> just from looking at the source/(making one patch) i have to say ive never seen code formed so 'oddly' to put it. there is a lot of stuff thrown around randomly and for no reason. just index.php has to look at 3-4 different variables to decide what to actually do in the request. global is used in almost every function of include files, its migraine causing.
when i was creating my identity-reply patch i noticed the function i was modifying being called 3 times in one request, all hitting my peice of code. there are many other functions that are "designed" to do multiple tasks, which defeats the purpose of making them in the first place (ie: functions are suppose to be small simple peices of code to solve one problem, not accept 20 variables, and return any of 10 replies back :x)
php isnt my favorite but im willing to help. but now im afraid to touch anything cause it barely works, and its a pita to try to figure out how any of the code works, (or why it works?) :x
.. (i could go on but will stop here) excuse the flame, (take it as helpful-critism please) but i spent the last half-hour yelling at roundcube for not sending my email.
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for the good critism: i do have to say roundcube is the most aesthetically pleasing designed webmail client there is anywhere. all others are generic 1995 html 1.1 <table>-thumping designed-to-make-users-nauseous kind of thing. or they are pleasing, though try to look like a desktop application which just DOESNT work for web apps.
i will take the time sometime this week to run roundcube through a debugger/strace-like tool and throw out a handful of ideas/ways to make roundcube just work. though i really dont want to throw a lot of time into roundcube if no one wants to actually push roundcube into as clean a codebase as it is an interface.
- Zachery