[SM-DEVEL] Re: Squirrelmail 1.4.5 stable seems to clobber mailbox file on install / Squirrelmail gives uninsightful error message

[ropers <ro...@gm...>]

Hiya,

Further to the first issue below -- you may want to ignore it. It seems
likely that I caused that myself by incorrect use of the mail command on th=
e
shell. Nothing to do with Squirrelmail (and I have the emails back). The
second issue however (the unhelpful and less than accurate error message) i=
s
still valid, so you may wish to consider pondering on that...

Cheers,
Jens


On 14/01/06, ropers <ro...@gm...> wrote:
>
>  Hi there,
>
> Not sure if this is the right way to report bugs, but here goes:
>
> - I have recently installed Squirrelmail 1.4.5 stable on a GNU/Linux
> system. The system had a prior version of Squirrelmail (1.4.2?) installed
> previously. I noticed that after completing the config/conf.pl script and
> src/configtest.php, I found that my main INBOX email file in
> /var/spool/mail/ had been clobbered.
>
> - For quite a bit, I had Squirrelmail complaining at logon that it was
> missing the ../data/ folder and that this wasn't writable by the user
> apache. (This prevented Squirrelmail from working.) It turned out the
> problem was mine insofar as I am on a shared server and Squirrelmail didn=
't
> accept the absolute path as seen from inside the SSH jail
> (/var/www/squirrelmail-data/). Once I specified the full path
> /home/virtual/sitexyz/fst/var/www/squirrelmail-data/ everything worked.
> While this certainly was my problem, you may consider giving a better err=
or
> message, one that doesn't complain about ../data/ missing irrespective of=
 it
> actually saying /var/www/squirrelmail-data/ in config/config.php. Also, i=
t
> wouldn't hurt writing a hint in config/conf.pl, to tell people who might =
be
> on shared servers to use the full path. Of course, if there was a reason =
to
> get Squirrelmail to accept "SSH-jailed" paths such as
> /var/www/squirrelmail-data/, then that might be even better.
>
> Hopefully I've done the right thing letting you know.
> Many thanks for all the hard work on Squirrelmail,
> Thanks and regards,
> Jens
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> www.ropersonline.com
>



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