Options of additionally installed plugins are not displayed

[HotblackDesiato]

All,

I have SquirrelMail 1.4.15 running on my fit-pc2 (www.fit-pc2.com) server under Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04).

I have installed some of the plugins from the SquirrelMail web site. The output of /etc/squirrelmail/conf.pl looks like this:

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
---------------------------------------------------------
Plugins
  Installed Plugins
    1. sent_confirmation
    2. administrator
    3. compatibility
    4. info
    5. mail_fetch
    6. newmail
    7. sent_subfolders
    8. listcommands
    9. abook_take
    10. message_details
    11. advanced_settings
    12. attachment_tnef
    13. gpg
    14. html_mail
    15. mark_read
    16. show_headers
    17. windows
    18. view_as_html
    19. wetteronline
    20. unsafe_image_rules
    21. compose_extras
    22. pupdate

  Available Plugins:
    23. bug_report
    24. calendar
    25. delete_move_next
    26. demo
    27. filters
    28. fortune
    29. spamcop
    30. squirrelspell
    31. test
    32. translate

R   Return to Main Menu
C   Turn color off
S   Save data
Q   Quit

Command >>

But when I click on "Options" in the SquirrelMail web frontend, only the following standard options are displayed:
  Personal Information
  Message Highlighting
  Index Order
  Pop3 Fetch Mail
  Display Preferences
  Folder Preferences
  IMAP server information
  NewMail Options

I don't see any options from the newly installed plugins. For instance, I would have expected to get a menu for the 'unsafe_image_rules' plugin, as described in the plugin's installation instructions.

What am I doing wrong ? The plugins are correctly registered in the config.

I have tried this with Firefox from my Linux boxes and with Internet Explorer from my Vista machine in the office. So it seems that this isn't a browser specific behaviour.

Some information on the software installed:
  Ubuntu 9.04
  Linux server 2.6.28-34-fitpc2 #10 Thu Aug 27 16:49:40 IDT 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
  PHP 5.2.6
  lighttpd 1.4.19
  exim4 4.69
  dovecot 1.1.13

Here is the output of configtest.php:

SquirrelMail configtest
This script will try to check some aspects of your SquirrelMail configuration and point you to errors whereever it can find them. You need to go run conf.pl in the config/ directory first before you run this script.

SquirrelMail version:	1.4.15
Config file version:	1.4.0
Config file last modified:	02 September 2009 22:50:54

Checking PHP configuration...
    PHP version 5.2.6-3ubuntu4.2 OK.
    display_errors: 1
    error_reporting: 6135
    variables_order OK: EGPCS.
    PHP extensions OK. Dynamic loading is disabled.


    ERROR: You have enabled any one of magic_quotes_runtime, magic_quotes_gpc or magic_quotes_sybase in your PHP configuration. We recommend all those settings to be off. SquirrelMail may work with them on, but when experiencing stray backslashes in your mail or other strange behaviour, it may be advisable to turn them off.

Checking paths...
    Data dir OK.
    Attachment dir OK.
    Plugins OK.
    Themes OK.
    Default language OK.
    Base URL detected as: . (location base autodetected)
Checking outgoing mail service....
    SMTP server OK (220 mail.mnet-online.de ESMTP Postfix)
Checking IMAP service....
    IMAP server ready (* OK Dovecot ready.)
    Capabilities: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 AUTH=PLAIN
Checking internationalization (i18n) settings...
     gettext - Gettext functions are available. On some systems you must have appropriate system locales compiled.
     mbstring - Mbstring functions are available.
     recode - Recode functions are available.
     iconv - Iconv functions are available.
     timezone - Webmail users can change their time zone settings.
Checking database functions...
    not using database functionality.

Congratulations, your SquirrelMail setup looks fine to me!


Any ideas ?


Stefan
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[Paul Lesniewski]

Plaintext message only here, thanks.

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Stefan Foerster <mls@...> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I have SquirrelMail 1.4.15 running on my fit-pc2 (www.fit-pc2.com) server under Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04).

That's a pretty old version with known security holes.

>
> I have installed some of the plugins from the SquirrelMail web site. The output of /etc/squirrelmail/conf.pl looks like this:
>
> SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Plugins
>   Installed Plugins
>     1. sent_confirmation
>     2. administrator
>     3. compatibility
>     4. info
>     5. mail_fetch
>     6. newmail
>     7. sent_subfolders
>     8. listcommands
>     9. abook_take
>     10. message_details
>     11. advanced_settings
>     12. attachment_tnef
>     13. gpg
>     14. html_mail
>     15. mark_read
>     16. show_headers
>     17. windows
>     18. view_as_html
>     19. wetteronline
>     20. unsafe_image_rules
>     21. compose_extras
>     22. pupdate
>
>   Available Plugins:
>     23. bug_report
>     24. calendar
>     25. delete_move_next
>     26. demo
>     27. filters
>     28. fortune
>     29. spamcop
>     30. squirrelspell
>     31. test
>     32. translate
>
> R   Return to Main Menu
> C   Turn color off
> S   Save data
> Q   Quit
>
> Command >>
>
> But when I click on "Options" in the SquirrelMail web frontend, only the following standard options are displayed:
>   Personal Information
>   Message Highlighting
>   Index Order
>   Pop3 Fetch Mail
>   Display Preferences
>   Folder Preferences
>   IMAP server information
>   NewMail Options

Keep in mind that most of your installed/active plugins don't have
their own options page.

> I don't see any options from the newly installed plugins. For instance, I would have expected to get a
> menu for the 'unsafe_image_rules' plugin, as described in the plugin's installation instructions.
>
> What am I doing wrong ? The plugins are correctly registered in the config.

Usually the problem when this happens is that you have two different
installations and have enabled the plugins in the wrong one.  Try
something like "locate src/login.php" and see how many you get.

Otherwise, read the mailing list posting guidelines for how to look
for any errors that happen when you hit the options page.

> I have tried this with Firefox from my Linux boxes and with Internet Explorer from my Vista machine in the office. So it seems that this isn't a browser specific behaviour.
>
> Some information on the software installed:
>   Ubuntu 9.04
>   Linux server 2.6.28-34-fitpc2 #10 Thu Aug 27 16:49:40 IDT 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
>   PHP 5.2.6
>   lighttpd 1.4.19
>   exim4 4.69
>   dovecot 1.1.13
>
> Here is the output of configtest.php:
>
> SquirrelMail configtest
> This script will try to check some aspects of your SquirrelMail configuration and point you to errors whereever it can find them. You need to go run conf.pl in the config/ directory first before you run this script.
>
> SquirrelMail version: 1.4.15
> Config file version: 1.4.0
> Config file last modified: 02 September 2009 22:50:54
> Checking PHP configuration...
>     PHP version 5.2.6-3ubuntu4.2 OK.
>     display_errors: 1
>     error_reporting: 6135
>     variables_order OK: EGPCS.
>     PHP extensions OK. Dynamic loading is disabled.
>
>
>     ERROR: You have enabled any one of magic_quotes_runtime, magic_quotes_gpc or magic_quotes_sybase in your PHP configuration. We recommend all those settings to be off. SquirrelMail may work with them on, but when experiencing stray backslashes in your mail or other strange behaviour, it may be advisable to turn them off.
>
> Checking paths...
>     Data dir OK.
>     Attachment dir OK.
>     Plugins OK.
>     Themes OK.
>     Default language OK.
>     Base URL detected as: . (location base autodetected)
> Checking outgoing mail service....
>     SMTP server OK (220 mail.mnet-online.de ESMTP Postfix)
> Checking IMAP service....
>     IMAP server ready (* OK Dovecot ready.)
>     Capabilities: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 AUTH=PLAIN
> Checking internationalization (i18n) settings...
>      gettext - Gettext functions are available. On some systems you must have appropriate system locales compiled.
>      mbstring - Mbstring functions are available.
>      recode - Recode functions are available.
>      iconv - Iconv functions are available.
>      timezone - Webmail users can change their time zone settings.
> Checking database functions...
>     not using database functionality.
>
> Congratulations, your SquirrelMail setup looks fine to me!
>
>
> Any ideas ?
>

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SquirrelMail Team
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[Tomas Kuliavas]

Paul Lesniewski wrote:

Plaintext message only here, thanks.

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Stefan Foerster <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I have SquirrelMail 1.4.15 running on my fit-pc2 (www.fit-pc2.com) server under Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04).

That's a pretty old version with known security holes.

It is custom SquirrelMail package modified by Ubuntu and Debian developers. If you know that it has security issues that are fixed in current stable SquirrelMail version - contact Ubuntu or Debian security teams.

Suggestion to move from standard system package to custom one is useless. Eventually such setup will have more security issues because it won't be updated.

--
Tomas

[HotblackDesiato]

Paul,

thanks fort your comments. It now works. I had a second squirrelmail
folder that was used, i.e. a copy of /usr/share/squirrelmail instead of
a soft link to it. Newbie error... sorry.

Thus conf.pl showed the installed plugins, but I was not able to use
them, as I had always worked on the copy only.

Regarding the version... I could of course use the 1.5 version by
compiling it by myself, but then I don't get automatic updates. As I am
the only user of squirrelmail and nobody else has access to it, I might
live with the security holes.

The upcoming Ubuntu version uses 1.4.19. Would that be acceptable ?


Stefan

Am Freitag, den 11.09.2009, 16:06 -0700 schrieb Paul Lesniewski:

> Plaintext message only here, thanks.
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Stefan Foerster <mls@...> wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I have SquirrelMail 1.4.15 running on my fit-pc2 (www.fit-pc2.com) server under Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04).
>
> That's a pretty old version with known security holes.
>
> >
> > I have installed some of the plugins from the SquirrelMail web site. The output of /etc/squirrelmail/conf.pl looks like this:
> >
> > SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > Plugins
> >   Installed Plugins
> >     1. sent_confirmation
> >     2. administrator
> >     3. compatibility
> >     4. info
> >     5. mail_fetch
> >     6. newmail
> >     7. sent_subfolders
> >     8. listcommands
> >     9. abook_take
> >     10. message_details
> >     11. advanced_settings
> >     12. attachment_tnef
> >     13. gpg
> >     14. html_mail
> >     15. mark_read
> >     16. show_headers
> >     17. windows
> >     18. view_as_html
> >     19. wetteronline
> >     20. unsafe_image_rules
> >     21. compose_extras
> >     22. pupdate
> >
> >   Available Plugins:
> >     23. bug_report
> >     24. calendar
> >     25. delete_move_next
> >     26. demo
> >     27. filters
> >     28. fortune
> >     29. spamcop
> >     30. squirrelspell
> >     31. test
> >     32. translate
> >
> > R   Return to Main Menu
> > C   Turn color off
> > S   Save data
> > Q   Quit
> >
> > Command >>
> >
> > But when I click on "Options" in the SquirrelMail web frontend, only the following standard options are displayed:
> >   Personal Information
> >   Message Highlighting
> >   Index Order
> >   Pop3 Fetch Mail
> >   Display Preferences
> >   Folder Preferences
> >   IMAP server information
> >   NewMail Options
>
> Keep in mind that most of your installed/active plugins don't have
> their own options page.
>
> > I don't see any options from the newly installed plugins. For instance, I would have expected to get a
> > menu for the 'unsafe_image_rules' plugin, as described in the plugin's installation instructions.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong ? The plugins are correctly registered in the config.
>
> Usually the problem when this happens is that you have two different
> installations and have enabled the plugins in the wrong one.  Try
> something like "locate src/login.php" and see how many you get.
>
> Otherwise, read the mailing list posting guidelines for how to look
> for any errors that happen when you hit the options page.
>
> > I have tried this with Firefox from my Linux boxes and with Internet Explorer from my Vista machine in the office. So it seems that this isn't a browser specific behaviour.
> >
> > Some information on the software installed:
> >   Ubuntu 9.04
> >   Linux server 2.6.28-34-fitpc2 #10 Thu Aug 27 16:49:40 IDT 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
> >   PHP 5.2.6
> >   lighttpd 1.4.19
> >   exim4 4.69
> >   dovecot 1.1.13
> >
> > Here is the output of configtest.php:
> >
> > SquirrelMail configtest
> > This script will try to check some aspects of your SquirrelMail configuration and point you to errors whereever it can find them. You need to go run conf.pl in the config/ directory first before you run this script.
> >
> > SquirrelMail version: 1.4.15
> > Config file version: 1.4.0
> > Config file last modified: 02 September 2009 22:50:54
> > Checking PHP configuration...
> >     PHP version 5.2.6-3ubuntu4.2 OK.
> >     display_errors: 1
> >     error_reporting: 6135
> >     variables_order OK: EGPCS.
> >     PHP extensions OK. Dynamic loading is disabled.
> >
> >
> >     ERROR: You have enabled any one of magic_quotes_runtime, magic_quotes_gpc or magic_quotes_sybase in your PHP configuration. We recommend all those settings to be off. SquirrelMail may work with them on, but when experiencing stray backslashes in your mail or other strange behaviour, it may be advisable to turn them off.
> >
> > Checking paths...
> >     Data dir OK.
> >     Attachment dir OK.
> >     Plugins OK.
> >     Themes OK.
> >     Default language OK.
> >     Base URL detected as: . (location base autodetected)
> > Checking outgoing mail service....
> >     SMTP server OK (220 mail.mnet-online.de ESMTP Postfix)
> > Checking IMAP service....
> >     IMAP server ready (* OK Dovecot ready.)
> >     Capabilities: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 AUTH=PLAIN
> > Checking internationalization (i18n) settings...
> >      gettext - Gettext functions are available. On some systems you must have appropriate system locales compiled.
> >      mbstring - Mbstring functions are available.
> >      recode - Recode functions are available.
> >      iconv - Iconv functions are available.
> >      timezone - Webmail users can change their time zone settings.
> > Checking database functions...
> >     not using database functionality.
> >
> > Congratulations, your SquirrelMail setup looks fine to me!
> >
> >
> > Any ideas ?
> >
>
>
> --
> Paul Lesniewski
> SquirrelMail Team
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> http://squirrelmail.org/donate_paul_lesniewski.php
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[Paul Lesniewski]

Please don't top-post, thanks.

>> > I have SquirrelMail 1.4.15 running on my fit-pc2 (www.fit-pc2.com) server under Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04).
>>
>> That's a pretty old version with known security holes.
>>
>> >
>> > I have installed some of the plugins from the SquirrelMail web site. The output of /etc/squirrelmail/conf.pl looks like this:
>> >
>> > SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------
>> > Plugins
>> >   Installed Plugins
>> >     1. sent_confirmation
>> >     2. administrator
>> >     3. compatibility
>> >     4. info
>> >     5. mail_fetch
>> >     6. newmail
>> >     7. sent_subfolders
>> >     8. listcommands
>> >     9. abook_take
>> >     10. message_details
>> >     11. advanced_settings
>> >     12. attachment_tnef
>> >     13. gpg
>> >     14. html_mail
>> >     15. mark_read
>> >     16. show_headers
>> >     17. windows
>> >     18. view_as_html
>> >     19. wetteronline
>> >     20. unsafe_image_rules
>> >     21. compose_extras
>> >     22. pupdate
>> >
>> >   Available Plugins:
>> >     23. bug_report
>> >     24. calendar
>> >     25. delete_move_next
>> >     26. demo
>> >     27. filters
>> >     28. fortune
>> >     29. spamcop
>> >     30. squirrelspell
>> >     31. test
>> >     32. translate
>> >
>> > R   Return to Main Menu
>> > C   Turn color off
>> > S   Save data
>> > Q   Quit
>> >
>> > Command >>
>> >
>> > But when I click on "Options" in the SquirrelMail web frontend, only the following standard options are displayed:
>> >   Personal Information
>> >   Message Highlighting
>> >   Index Order
>> >   Pop3 Fetch Mail
>> >   Display Preferences
>> >   Folder Preferences
>> >   IMAP server information
>> >   NewMail Options
>>
>> Keep in mind that most of your installed/active plugins don't have
>> their own options page.
>>
>> > I don't see any options from the newly installed plugins. For instance, I would have expected to get a
>> > menu for the 'unsafe_image_rules' plugin, as described in the plugin's installation instructions.
>> >
>> > What am I doing wrong ? The plugins are correctly registered in the config.
>>
>> Usually the problem when this happens is that you have two different
>> installations and have enabled the plugins in the wrong one.  Try
>> something like "locate src/login.php" and see how many you get.
>>
>> Otherwise, read the mailing list posting guidelines for how to look
>> for any errors that happen when you hit the options page.

> thanks fort your comments. It now works. I had a second squirrelmail
> folder that was used, i.e. a copy of /usr/share/squirrelmail instead of
> a soft link to it. Newbie error... sorry.
>
> Thus conf.pl showed the installed plugins, but I was not able to use
> them, as I had always worked on the copy only.
>
> Regarding the version... I could of course use the 1.5 version by
> compiling it by myself, but then I don't get automatic updates. As I am
> the only user of squirrelmail and nobody else has access to it, I might
> live with the security holes.
>
> The upcoming Ubuntu version uses 1.4.19. Would that be acceptable ?

You don't compile SquirrelMail.  PHP is not a compiled language - it's
just a series of scripts you drop in place.  If you use SquirrelMail
1.5.x, make sure you use 1.5.2SVN at this time.  If your 1.4.15
installation is a package that is auto-updated by your distribution,
then you can usually stay with that and assume that the distro keeps
on top of security issues, but we here cannot vouch for what security
or other patches it contains.  If you installed 1.4.15 yourself, you
definitely want to get the latest version from the SquirrelMail
website.

>> > I have tried this with Firefox from my Linux boxes and with Internet Explorer from my Vista machine in the office. So it seems that this isn't a browser specific behaviour.
>> >
>> > Some information on the software installed:
>> >   Ubuntu 9.04
>> >   Linux server 2.6.28-34-fitpc2 #10 Thu Aug 27 16:49:40 IDT 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
>> >   PHP 5.2.6
>> >   lighttpd 1.4.19
>> >   exim4 4.69
>> >   dovecot 1.1.13
>> >

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SquirrelMail Team
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