On Dec 20, 2006, at 6:12 AM, andy wrote:

I was wondering if u could make this password patch::

http://roundcubeforum.net/forum/index.php?topic=42.0

an official feature? It is working fine here and the only way for my users to change
their passwords.

This has been discussed ad nauseam in the past. RC is not an
administrative tool, it's a webmail interface. What makes it
wonderful is its simplicity.

-- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net

andy wrote:

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This has been discussed ad nauseam in the past. RC is not an administrative tool, it's a webmail interface. What makes it wonderful is its simplicity.

ok, right - its an administrative job, but very closely liked to the mail account and i dont want to install an extra tool just so that the user can change his/her password, im just asking if this could be a hidden feature

What then for PAM users, LDAP users, people connecting to exchange etc etc etc.

The problem is that none of the authentication methods are standard - this is a good thing.

The problem is that it's difficult to add the password change feature to RC at the moment yourself. Not as difficult as say in Horde, but it requires programming knowledge to do it right usually. I wrote one myself for RoundCube and PostfixAdmin quite a while back, I don't remember if anyone is using that code, but it was messy to attach it to the settings page and the first thing i noted was that upgrading RC in future would be a pain.

The solution really is to have a plug-in framework, if even only for this feature so that people can slot one in for their setup if they want to. Is there any planning for this? It seems trivial to, for example, have an include array which just slots in tabs for the extensions.