[horde] Installing New Horde WebMail - Different PEAR Install

[Brian Spraker]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Brian Spraker <spraker at yahoo.com>
> To: "horde at lists.horde.org" <horde at lists.horde.org>
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> Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2012 8:34 AM
> Subject: Installing New Horde WebMail - Different PEAR Install
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> Hello all,
> 
> Because of the Firefox 10 issues and not displaying some of the e-mails in the 
> Dynamic reading pane of Horde 3, I've attempted to install Horde 4 again on 
> my system.
> 
> I followed the webmail install instructions here:
> 
> http://www.horde.org/apps/webmail/docs/INSTALL
> 
> Because there were previous issues trying to get the horde_role value set using 
> the system-wide PEAR, I installed a separate pear install.
> 
> Directory of webmail install is /home/webmail-new
> 
> These commands were run:
> 
> pear config-create /home/webmail /home/webmail/pear.conf
> pear -c /home/webmail/pear.conf install pear
> 
> /home/webmail/pear/pear -c /home/webmail/pear.conf channel-discover 
> pear.horde.org
> /home/webmail/pear/pear -c /home/webmail/pear.conf install horde/horde_role
> /home/webmail/pear/pear -c /home/webmail/pear.conf run-scripts horde/horde_role
> 
> I then updated the "preferred_state" to alpha:
> 
> /home/webmail/pear/pear -c /home/webmail/pear.conf config-set preferred_state 
> alpha
> 
> The script was run and the value set to /home/webmail
> 
> /home/webmail/pear/pear -c /home/webmail/pear.conf install -a -B horde/webmail
> 
> This installed Horde Webmail and all dependencies needed.
> 
> I then ran the configuration:
> 
> /home/webmail/pear/webmail-install
> 
> Everything was setup.  Using MySQL with most of all the default values.
> 
> I then added these lines to the .htaccess file:
> 
> php_value include_path /home/webmail/pear/php
> SetEnv PHP_PEAR_SYSCONF_DIR /home/webmail
> 
> Opened the browser and went to webmail.  All seemed to work fine.  Continued to 
> do the rest of the configuration.
> 
> Now, here are the issues that I am experiencing:
> 
> #1 - When I send an e-mail to anyone - even back to myself or my Yahoo account, 
> the "From" says "To: Undisclosed Recipients".  When I look 
> at it in the reading pane, it shows the name that the web server is running as 
> (www-data) but does show my e-mail address as the 'envelope-from'.
> #2 - That same e-mail does not show a subject.  I used the subject 
> "Test" when I made the e-mail, but it says "[No Subject]" in 
> the list of e-mails.  However, when I view the source, it does show 
> "Subject: Test" in that appropriate line.
> #3 - That same e-mail does not show anything in the reading pane.  However, when 
> I view the source, I see both the HTML and plain-text version of that e-mail.
> #4 - If I double-click on the e-mail - OR any other e-mail in my mailbox that IS 
> working fine, I get the pop-up box but it is completely blank - nothing at all 
> is in there.
> 
> #5 - If I go into Traditional view, I click to show my Inbox.  But, the entire 
> list is empty and does not populate.  All of the buttons at the top all show up 
> - but no e-mails are presented in the mailbox.
> #6 - If I go into the Mobile view (not smartphone), it shows a very lean version 
> of webmail.  But if I click on one of the e-mails to show it, the screen goes 
> blank with nothing on it.
> 
> #7 - When looking at the log, I see lines like this appearing:
> 
> 2012-02-05T08:01:52-06:00 NOTICE: HORDE [timeobjects] PHP ERROR: Undefined 
> index: params [pid 3181 on line 18 of 
> "/home/webmail/pear/php/Horde/Core/Factory/Weather.php"]
> 
> 
> There might be other issues I've not yet encountered - but this is what is 
> happening so far.  Last time I installed Horde 4 (several months ago), Horde 4 
> was causing the web browser to hang when the filters were being run with a lot 
> of errors in the horde log.  This is not happening this time.
> 
> I would certainly think there is something not configured correctly - but I 
> followed the instructions right on the Webmail Install guide.
> 
> Horde 3 Groupware Webmail is still running in another directory - and it is 100% 
> working fine (except for that Firefox 10 issue and the reading pane on select 
> e-mails).
> 
> 
> Brian S.

A couple of notes here.

I changed from using sendmail to using an SMTP server for sending messages.  This seems to have corrected the issues with the #1, #2, and #3 above.  But, why is Horde 3 working just fine using the same exact sendmail configuration??
Next, I went into the config (after doing some error reporting on the message-dimp.php file).  #4 above indicates that if I double-click to open an e-mail in Dynamic view, the screen would come up blank.  When I added "ini_set('display_errors', 1);" to the imp/message-dimp.php file, I got this error:

Fatal error:  Call to a member function equals() on a non-object in /home/bsntech-com/www/webmail-new/imp/message-dimp.php on line 156

Looking at the code, it pointed to a potential issue with spam reporting.  So I went into the IMP configuration and removed the check boxes for spam/innocent reporting in the spam folder and generated the config.  Re-opened Dynamic mail and now the window DOES appear normally.

For problem #5 - in Traditional view, no messages would show up in the inbox although there were some in there.  This was corrected if I fully disabled spam and ham reporting in the IMP configuration.  But, why must I completely disable these features for it to work?

However, #6 is still occurring.  I added the "ini_set('display_errors", 1);" to the imp/message-mimp.php file (which is what pulls up the e-mails in Mobile view) - and the page is still completely blank without any PHP error messages.

Trying to document everything I am doing here in this thread so if anyone else stumbles upon these problems, they will have a general idea as to what might be causing it.  Still need some assistance on all of the issues really - because I'd rather use sendmail instead of the SMTP server for sending messages and I'd certainly like to allow my users to report spam and ham messages.

Brian S.

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