[horde] Horde/Kronolith Email Reminders Random Behaviour

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Wed Apr 29 17:09:53 UTC 2009


Zitat von Robert McAuley <rmcauley at ca.afilias.info>:

> Hello list,
>
> I'm having some serious trouble getting email alarms working for me.  
>  Everything worked fantastically - for about 2 days. I've followed  
> the install and the wiki docs twice (VFS is working, etc.), gone  
> over every Kronolith and Horde setting, and these are the two cron  
> jobs I have setup as the wiki/install docs suggest:
>
> */5 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/horde/scripts/alarms.php
> 0   2 * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/horde/kronolith/scripts/reminders.php
>
> I can run the scripts and no warnings or errors occur.  What happens  
> as a result of running them is almost random.  I've seen the  
> following scenarios:
>
> - Daily agendas for users with "only from my calendar" reminders  
> contain items from other users or shared calendars

Agendas and reminders are completely different things. Thus reminder  
preferences don't apply to agendas.

> - Reminders arrive a random amount of minutes late (5, 10, 20, 30,  
> 60, no rhyme or reason)

Do they arrive late, or are they sent late? Are the dates in the  
reminder messages correct?

> - Reminders have recently stopped working completely, regardless of settings
>
> Are there any recommended settings to make sure reminders work all  
> the time, correctly?  Should I use SQL for VFS instead of the file  
> system? (which Horde has read/write access to) Is there some newbie  
> area of the docs that I overlooked, or am I possibly missing some  
> common step to this?

Reminders no longer use VFS is using the alarms.php script.

Jan.

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