[horde] [Help Desk #VQP-27786-492] Installing Vacation module with Horde

[PrecisionPros Helpdesk]

Hi - 

We are running Horde 3.3.6 on a Parallels Plesk server.   We are trying to install the Vacation module but are running into problems.  When we login as the mail user to configure the Vacation mode it gives us this error:

Authentication to FTP server failed.

Here are the steps I took to setup the Vacation module on the server:

I made sure curl, ftp, and ldap are enabled. 
Downloaded vacation program here:

wget ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/vacation/vacation-latest.tar.gz (as long as this version is still compatible with our horde version)

Followed the install steps which were:

extract and rename directory to vacation - copy the vacation file to these two directories:

/etc/psa-webmail/horde/vacation 
/usr/share/psa-horde/vacation

Edit the file /etc/psa-webmail/horde/horde/registry.php and placed this in it:

$this->applications['vacation'] = array( 'fileroot' => dirname(FILE) . '/../vacation', 'webroot' => $this->applications['horde']['webroot'] . '/vacation', 'name' => ("Vacation"), 'status' => 'active', 'provides' => 'vacation', 'menuparent' => 'imp' );

(I placed it near the end after the horde application statement)

Setup the admin user for horde - edit this file /etc/psa-webmail/horde/horde/conf.php and change this line:

$conf['auth']['admins'] = array();

To valid user like such:

$conf['auth']['admins'] = array('xxxxx at xxxxxxxxxx.com');

I then logged into webmail as that admin user. Went to administration, setup, and under vacation ran the option to configure the conf.php file it setup a conf.php file with these details in it:

<?php
/* CONFIG START. DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING IN OR AFTER THIS LINE. */
// $Horde: vacation/config/conf.xml,v 1.15.2.13 2009/08/18 12:54:49 jan Exp $
$conf['vacation']['path'] = '/usr/bin/vacation';
$conf['vacation']['default_subject'] = _("On vacation message");
$conf['vacation']['default_message'] = _("I'm on vacation and will not be reading my mail for a while.\nYour mail will be dealt with when I return.");
$conf['vacation']['subject'] = true;
$conf['vacation']['from'] = true;
$conf['server']['params']['default']['host'] = 'localhost';
$conf['server']['params']['default']['port'] = 21;
$conf['server']['params']['default']['pasv'] = false;
$conf['server']['params']['default']['ssl'] = false;
$conf['server']['params']['default']['hordeauth'] = true;
$conf['server']['params']['default']['norealm'] = false;
$conf['server']['driver'] = 'qmail';
$conf['aliases']['show'] = true;
$conf['aliases']['driver'] = 'none';
$conf['user']['refused'] = array('root', 'bin', 'daemon', 'adm', 'lp', 'shutdown', 'halt', 'uucp', 'ftp', 'anonymous', 'nobody', 'httpd', 'operator', 'guest', 'diginext', 'bind', 'cyrus', 'courier', 'games', 'kmem', 'mailnull', 'man', 'mysql', 'news', 'postfix', 'sshd', 'tty', 'www');
$conf['menu']['apps'] = array();
/* CONFIG END. DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING IN OR BEFORE THIS LINE. */

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I also tried using the dot-forward mailer so the conf.php is like so:

<?php
/* CONFIG START. DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING IN OR AFTER THIS LINE. */
// $Horde: vacation/config/conf.xml,v 1.15.2.13 2009/08/18 12:54:49 jan Exp $
$conf['vacation']['path'] = '/usr/bin/vacation';
$conf['vacation']['default_subject'] = _("On vacation message");
$conf['vacation']['default_message'] = _("I'm on vacation and will not be reading my mail for a while.\nYour mail will be dealt with when I return.");
$conf['vacation']['subject'] = true;
$conf['vacation']['from'] = true;
$conf['server']['params']['default']['host'] = 'localhost';
$conf['server']['params']['default']['port'] = 21;
$conf['server']['params']['default']['pasv'] = false;
$conf['server']['params']['default']['ssl'] = false;
$conf['server']['params']['default']['hordeauth'] = true;
$conf['server']['params']['default']['norealm'] = false;
$conf['server']['params']['default']['dbtype'] = 'empty';
$conf['server']['driver'] = 'forwards';
$conf['aliases']['show'] = true;
$conf['aliases']['driver'] = 'none';
$conf['user']['refused'] = array('root', 'bin', 'daemon', 'adm', 'lp', 'shutdown', 'halt', 'uucp', 'ftp', 'anonymous', 'nobody', 'httpd', 'operator', 'guest', 'diginext', 'bind', 'cyrus', 'courier', 'games', 'kmem', 'mailnull', 'man', 'mysql', 'news', 'postfix', 'sshd', 'tty', 'www');
$conf['menu']['apps'] = array();
/* CONFIG END. DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING IN OR BEFORE THIS LINE. */

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Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get this working.  My initial guess was that the Plesk email users do NOT come with ftp privileges, I am unable to find a way around this setting, but was told that the Vacation module should still work if setup correctly.

Please let me know if there are any questions on this or if you need further details.

Thanks!

Robyn Glazner
The PrecisionPros.com Network
6543 East Omega Street
Mesa, AZ 85215
480 461 9765
480 461 9312 (fax)