Re: [SM-PLUGINS] Folder Settings: Error when clicking Date icon to change folder sort order

[p d. t. <pdo...@an...>]

Alan,

  Did you ever get any help on this error?  Did you hear from the plugin 
author?

> SquirrelMail 1.4.2
> PHP 4.3.4
> UWIMAPD (IMAP4rev1 2002.325-cpanel)
> Apache 1.3.29
> 
> Folder Settings plugin, etc.
> Folder Preferences > Folder Sorting Options > Default sort_order set to:
> "Date (descending)"
> 
> In the message list, when I click the icon next to the Date heading, to
> change the date sort order for this folder, I get this error message:
> 
> Preference file, /us...@do...p, could not be opened. Contact
> your system administrator to resolve this issue. Go to the login page
> 
> Also, just above the error message it displays the organization logo from
> the login page.
> 
> I am able to change other options, which are therefore writing correctly
> to the prefs file.
> 
> This is related to the Folder Settings plugin. The error occurs only when
> this plugin is enabled.
> (I moved this to Plugins list, as it now appears to be a plugin issue.)
> 
> Why am I getting this error message?
> What is .pref.tmp? My preferences file is called just
> "us...@do...ef", so what is this .tmp file it's referring to?