Re: [SM-PLUGINS] Question regarding plugin vacation_local

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Paul,

Any news on this issue yet ?

Regards,

Jan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Lesneski" <pau...@op...>
To: "Jan Alphenaar" <jan...@in...>
Cc: "Squirrelmail Plugins List" <squ...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 5:50 AM
Subject: Re: [SM-PLUGINS] Question regarding plugin vacation_local




> Dear list members,
>
> I am trying to install the squirrelmail vacation_local plugin. Although I
> was quite successfull, things are not running as they supposed to be. If
> anybody can give me a hand here, it is appreciated.
>
> This is my install:
>
> * apache_1.3.31
> * php-4.3.7
> * qmail-1.03
> * squirrelmail-1.4.5
> * vacation_local-2.0-1.4
>
> After installing the plugin, it is available under 'options' in de
> squirrelmail GUI. Now it is possible to fill in the following fields.
>
> 1) Send auto-reply to sender
> 2) Vacation Subject
> 3) Vacation message
> 4) Forward incoming message to addresses listed below ?
> 5) No local delivery; forward and/or auto-reply only
> 6) Forward email addresses (one address per line)
>
> When I fill in the fields the files are created, just as I configured it
> to
> be in config.php file (see below).
>
> .vacation.fwd
> .vacation.msg
> .vacation.pref
> .vacation.sq
> .vacation.subj
> .qmail
>
> So far so good, but the content of the .qmail file is not what it is
> supposed to be:
>
> ================
> email@ToBeForwarded.com
> "|/opt/qmail-vacation/bin/vacation jan"
> \jan
> ================
>
> Qmail is not able to handle a .qmail file with such a syntax and therefore
> the vacation plugin is not working on my system.
>
> When I manually edit the .qmail file and put the following content in it,
> everything works fine.
>
> ================
> email@ToBeForwarded.com
> |/opt/qmail-vacation/bin/vacation jan
> /home/jan/Maildir/
> ================

Eiw.  Thanks, qmail.  There will have to be some changes made including
some kind of config option that indicates what kind of .forward syntax you
need.  I can work on this in the next wee.

> So I started to make changes to the vac_init.php file to get things up and
> running. I changed the following lines which results in the fact that the
> vacation plugin is working if I do not enable forwarding
>
>    --> Line 204 & 205
>        $forward_file_contents .= '|' . $vacation_path . ' '
>                               . $alias_list . $username . "\n";
>    --> Line 224
>        $forward_file_contents .= '/home/' . $username . '/Maildir/';

Please show unified diff.

> When I enable forwarding everything breaks again. This is because the
> plugin
> does not strip of the ^M character at the end of each email address
> (inserted by the browser). Qmail now thinks that the email address is
> ja...@ex...^M so with the ^M at the end of the domain name. I am very
> surprised that I have to make such changes to the code, since
> approximately
> 21.000 people already have downloaded the plugin.