[horde] Issues installing Horde Groupware on new Rocky Linux 8 VPS

[Louis-Philippe Allard]

  Quoting Patrick Boutilier <boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca>:

> On 10/28/21 14:35, L A wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 9:00 AM L A <lp.allard.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 8:34 AM Christian Schmidt <
>>> Christian.Schmidt at chemie.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> L A, 28.10.21:
>>>>> Sendmail is installed and configured to use my GMail account to send
>>>>
>>>> emails
>>>>> using their SMTP server.  It works perfectly.  I can send emails from
>>>>
>>>> the
>>>>> CLI using something like :
>>>>>
>>>>> echo "$(hostname) test" | mail -s "$(hostname) test Gmail relay"
>>>>> root at localhost
>>>>>
>>>>> Strangely, /var/log/maillog is empty...
>>>>>
>>>>> I noticed that backends.local.php did not contain any parameters for
>>>>
>>>> SMTP
>>>>> authentication, so I added the SMTP block in it,  Now
>>>>> "imp/config/backends.local.php" looks like:
>>>>>
>>>>> $servers['imap'] = array(
>>>>>      'disabled' => false,
>>>>>      'name' => 'GMail IMAP server',
>>>>>      'hostspec' => 'imap.gmail.com',
>>>>>      'hordeauth' => true,
>>>>>      'protocol' => 'imap',
>>>>>      'port' => 993,
>>>>>      'secure' => 'ssl'
>>>>>      'maildomain' => '',
>>>>>      'smtp' => array(
>>>>>          'auth' => true,
>>>>>          'localhost' => 'localhost',
>>>>>          'host' => 'smtp.gmail.com',
>>>>>          'password' => '*************************',
>>>>>          'port' => 587,
>>>>>          'secure' => 'tls',
>>>>>          'username' => 'lp.allard.1 at gmail.com'
>>>>>      ),
>>>>>      'cache' => false,
>>>>> );
>>>>
>>>> You told imp to use smtp.gmail.com, so your local sendmail is not
>>>> getting involved at all...
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Christian
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Hello Christian,
>>>
>>> hmmmm... Okay sorry I just found out that the "Mailer" section of Horde's
>>> config was not filled out.  I entered the proper parameters and its working
>>> fine now.  I wonder, out of curiosity, why I need to do that to be able to
>>> send emails?
>>>
>>> Wouldn't filling out the proper parameters in IMP's config be sufficient??
>>>
>>> Okay now *I think* everything is working fine!
>>>
>>> Thanks guys again
>>>
>>>  
>>
>> OOPS, out of the blue, when I try to login I get:
>> A fatal error has occurredsyntax error, unexpected ''maildomain''
>> (T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING), expecting ')'Details have been logged for the
>> administrator.
>> Horde logs show:
>>
>> 2021-10-28T13:30:43-04:00 EMERG: HORDE [imp] ParseError: syntax error,
>> unexpected ''maildomain'' (T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING), expecting ')' in
>> /var/www/html/horde/imp/config/backends.local.php:369
>> Stack trace:
>> #0 /usr/share/pear/Horde/Registry.php(1840):
>> Horde_Registry_Loadconfig->__construct('imp', 'backends.php', 'servers')
>> #1 /var/www/html/horde/imp/lib/Imap.php(922):
>> Horde_Registry->loadConfigFile('backends.php', 'servers', 'imp')
>> #2 /var/www/html/horde/imp/lib/Auth.php(206): IMP_Imap::loadServerConfig()
>> #3 /var/www/html/horde/imp/lib/Auth.php(106): IMP_Auth::_canAutoLogin()
>> #4 /var/www/html/horde/imp/lib/Application.php(378):
>> IMP_Auth::transparent(Object(Horde_Core_Auth_Application))
>> #5 /usr/share/pear/Horde/Registry.php(1197):
>> IMP_Application->authTransparent(Object(Horde_Core_Auth_Application))
>> #6 /usr/share/pear/Horde/Core/Auth/Application.php(396):
>> Horde_Registry->callAppMethod('imp', 'authTransparent', Array)
>> #7 /usr/share/pear/Horde/Registry.php(2195):
>> Horde_Core_Auth_Application->transparent()
>> #8 /usr/share/pear/Horde/Registry.php(1739):
>> Horde_Registry->isAuthenticated(Array)
>> #9 /usr/share/pear/Horde/Registry.php(890):
>> Horde_Registry->hasPermission('imp', 4)
>> #10 /usr/share/pear/Horde/Core/Notification/Handler.php(69):
>> Horde_Registry->listApps(Array, false, 4)
>> #11 /usr/share/pear/Horde/Registry.php(575):
>> Horde_Core_Notification_Handler->attachAllAppHandlers()
>> #12 /usr/share/pear/Horde/Registry.php(287): Horde_Registry->__construct(0,
>> Array)
>> #13 /var/www/html/horde/login.php(57): Horde_Registry::appInit('horde',
>> Array)
>> #14 {main} [pid 1225 on line 74 of "/usr/share/pear/Horde/ErrorHandler.php"]
>>
>> The "horde/imp/config/backends.local.php' is identical to what I already
>> posted in this email chain....
>>
>> I tried commenting out the "maildomain" parameter, but I get
>> A fatal error has occurredsyntax error, unexpected ''smtp''
>> (T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING), expecting ')'Details have been logged for the
>> administrator.
>> Whats going on?  It looks like Horde can't interpret the backends.local.php
>> file....
>
> Can we what line 369 (and a few line before and after) of  
> /var/www/html/horde/imp/config/backends.local.php looks like?

Sorry for the late reply the emails got in my spam box for some  
reasons...  The problem was caused by me idiotly reusing configuration  
settings in backends.php from  
https://docs.bitnami.com/bch/apps/horde/configuration/configure-smtp/  
which obviously were not (are not) compatible with my version(s) of  
Horde Groupware.

Now imp/config/backends.local.php looks like:

$servers['imap'] = array(
    'disabled' => false,
    'name' => 'GMail IMAP server',
    'hostspec' => 'imap.gmail.com',
    'hordeauth' => true,
    'protocol' => 'imap',
    'port' => 993,
    'secure' => 'ssl'
);

and everything is working perfectly.  Horde is using GMail to send emails.
  Louis-Philippe Allard
lp.allard.1 at gmail.com