[horde] Setting Default Preferences Before First Login

[Brian Spraker]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Brian Spraker <spraker at yahoo.com>
> To: "horde at lists.horde.org" <horde at lists.horde.org>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2012 10:13 AM
> Subject: Setting Default Preferences Before First Login
> 
> OK - continuing with Horde 4 install and I have another question about 
> preferences.
> 
> With Horde 3, I would create a user account.  I would then login to the user 
> account and set all of the preferences to what I would want set for any 
> 'default' user that hasn't been created yet.
> 
> I would then go into the horde database and find all of the preferences set 
> under the horde_prefs table amongst the others based upon the login ID I just 
> used.
> 
> I then made an SQL/PHP script from those default preferences so whenever I would 
> make a new user account, this script would run and setup all of the preferences 
> to how they were set with my test account.
> 
> However, with Horde 4, I see that the pref_value field is now a BLOB and not 
> LONGTEXT as it was in Horde 3.
> 
> So how can I setup default preferences for all users before they even login or 
> use their account?  Things like disabling the Virtual Folders, setting 
> reminders, default folders (Sent, Trash, Spam, Drafts), and all other items no 
> longer are available because of the BLOB field type.
> 
> Appreciate any additional help.
> 
> Brian S.
>

I've found that setting a combination of creating a new file in the config/prefs.d folder with some settings, this works.  In addition, I had to update the imp/config/prefs.php file as well with some of the settings.

However, I cannot seem to disable the virtual folders.  I want to completely disable them - and they are enabled by default.  In the imp/config/prefs.php file, it shows this:

$_prefs['vfolder'] = array(
    // By default, Virtual Inbox is enabled and Virtual Trash is disabled.
    // 'value' => serialize(array())
    'value' => 'a:0:{}'
);

I don't know how it needs to be changed in order to disable the virtual folders.  In the confi/prefs.d folder, I put this:

$_prefs['imp']['vinbox'] = '0';

But this doesn't seem to do anything.

Any help would be appreciated.

Brian S.