[imp] Linked attachments don't work as expected

[L. D. James]

On 05/26/2015 08:40 AM, Benedetto Vassallo wrote:
> Hello,
> I am recently update my horde installation to horde 5.2.5/imp 6.2.8 and
> have an issue when try to send linked attachments.
>
> My imp configuration is:
>
> $conf['compose']['use_vfs'] = true;
> $conf['compose']['link_attachments_notify'] = false;
> $conf['compose']['link_attach_threshold'] = 5242880;
> $conf['compose']['link_attach_size_hard'] = 5242880;
> $conf['compose']['link_attach_size_limit'] = 104857600;
> $conf['compose']['link_attachments'] = true;
> $conf['compose']['attach_size_limit'] = 0;
> $conf['compose']['attach_count_limit'] = 0;
>
> When I try to send a single attached file bigger than 5 MB, it works as
> expected.
> When I try to send, say 3 files of 2 MB each, the response is "Error when
> communicating with the server" and the mail is not sent.
>
> In my log I see the following message:
>
> 2015-02-27T11:17:06+01:00 EMERG: HORDE [imp] Call to a member function
> setRaw() on a non-object [pid 29524 on line 2909 of
> "/var/www/horde5/imp/lib/Compose.php"]
> 2015-02-27T11:17:06+01:00 DEBUG: HORDE 1.
> Horde_ErrorHandler::catchFatalError()
>
> If I click again the "Send" button, I got an error
> like "unable to create vfs file .horde/imp/compose/xxxxxxx".
> In fact the file is created in the vfs storage.
> My vfs storage type is file, and the base directory is owned by
> apache:apache and have 750 permissions.
> My Linux distro is CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)
> My apache version is httpd-2.4.6-31.el7.centos.x86_64
> My php version is 5.5.25
>
> I hope this can help you to find the cause of this issue.
>
> Thank you in advance for any solution.
> Best regards.

While you try to get this bug resolved you might consider two options:

Options 1:
Very cumbersome, but sent the files one at a time... one per message.

Option 2:
Host the files somewhere and send links to where they are hosted.

-- L. James

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