With this release Roundcube also passes the email standards project’s acid test. See http://www.email-standards.org/acid-test

I would advise you that if you use Roundcube please upgrade to this version. Here is a document on how to upgrade.

http://diymacserver.com/mail/lion/

So enjoy your new installation of Lion with these instructions.

In the coming week I will move all my stuff to the new Mini, hopefully without too much interruptions in our service.

It is considered stable and I recommend to update your installation of Roundcube with this release. For a complete list of changes see http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog. Packages can be downloaded from the usual place: http://roundcube.net/download.

Before continuing, make sure you have a current backup of your mysql database and your webserver. You need to download the latest code from the Roundcube site.

Extract the archive into the Document root of your Apache installation, in our case /Library/WebServer/Documents.

Step into the newly created directory and change the permissions on the temp and logs directory so that the webserver can write into these directories with the following commands:

cd /Library/WebServer/Documents/roundcubemail-0.4
sudo chown -R www:www temp
sudo chown -R www:www logs

Next we need to update the database structure for Roundcube-0.4. Start up MySQL on the command line as the roundcube user with this command:

mysql -u roundcube -p

Note: you will need to enter the password you chose for roundcube when you initially installed it. (if you have forgotten it can be found in the config/db.ini.php file of your old roundcubemail installation). If you have a different database name, use that instead of “roundcubemail”

If your upgrading from roundcubemail version 3.0-stable, run the following commands in the mysql shell:

USE roundcubemail
TRUNCATE `messages`;
ALTER TABLE `messages`
ADD INDEX `index_index` (`user_id`, `cache_key`, `idx`);
ALTER TABLE `session`
CHANGE `vars` `vars` MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL;
ALTER TABLE `contacts`
ADD INDEX `user_contacts_index` (`user_id`,`email`);
quit

If your upgrading from roundcubemail version 3.1-dep, run the following commands in the mysql shell:

USE roundcubemail
ALTER TABLE `messages` DROP FOREIGN KEY `user_id_fk_messages`;
ALTER TABLE `cache` DROP FOREIGN KEY `user_id_fk_cache`;
ALTER TABLE `contacts` DROP FOREIGN KEY `user_id_fk_contacts`;
ALTER TABLE `identities` DROP FOREIGN KEY `user_id_fk_identities`;
ALTER TABLE `messages` ADD CONSTRAINT `user_id_fk_messages` FOREIGN KEY (`user_id`)
REFERENCES `users`(`user_id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE;
ALTER TABLE `cache` ADD CONSTRAINT `user_id_fk_cache` FOREIGN KEY (`user_id`)
REFERENCES `users`(`user_id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE;
ALTER TABLE `contacts` ADD CONSTRAINT `user_id_fk_contacts` FOREIGN KEY (`user_id`)
REFERENCES `users`(`user_id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE;
ALTER TABLE `identities` ADD CONSTRAINT `user_id_fk_identities` FOREIGN KEY (`user_id`)
REFERENCES `users`(`user_id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE;
ALTER TABLE `contacts` ALTER `name` SET DEFAULT ”;
ALTER TABLE `contacts` ALTER `firstname` SET DEFAULT ”;
ALTER TABLE `contacts` ALTER `surname` SET DEFAULT ”;
ALTER TABLE `identities` ADD INDEX `user_identities_index` (`user_id`, `del`);
ALTER TABLE `identities` ADD `changed` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT ’1000-01-01 00:00:00′ AFTER `user_id`;
 
CREATE TABLE `contactgroups` (
  `contactgroup_id` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `user_id` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT ’0′,
  `changed` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT ’1000-01-01 00:00:00′,
  `del` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT ’0′,
  `name` varchar(128) NOT NULL DEFAULT ”,
  PRIMARY KEY(`contactgroup_id`),
  CONSTRAINT `user_id_fk_contactgroups` FOREIGN KEY (`user_id`)
  REFERENCES `users`(`user_id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE,
  INDEX `contactgroups_user_index` (`user_id`,`del`)
);
 
CREATE TABLE `contactgroupmembers` (
  `contactgroup_id` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
  `contact_id` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT ’0′,
  `created` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT ’1000-01-01 00:00:00′,
  PRIMARY KEY (`contactgroup_id`, `contact_id`),
  CONSTRAINT `contactgroup_id_fk_contactgroups` FOREIGN KEY (`contactgroup_id`)
  REFERENCES `contactgroups`(`contactgroup_id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE,
  CONSTRAINT `contact_id_fk_contacts` FOREIGN KEY (`contact_id`)
  REFERENCES `contacts`(`contact_id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE
);
 
quit

The next step is a lot simpler. Point your browser to http://yourhostname/roundcubemail-0.4/installer/ and follow the instructions, just like you did when you initially installed roundcubemail.

In step 2 make sure you enter all the information as you did for the previous install of roundcubemail. Perhaps you had:

Database setup:
localhost
roundcubemail
roundcube
PASSWORD (or whatever you have it set too)
 
IMAP Settings:
ssl://localhost:993

If the installer was unable to create the config files you need to copy the contents located in the browser in the files db.inc.php and main.inc.php located in the directory config

If you have tested the setup and it works please remove the installer directory from the roundcube installation. It might be used by others to hack your installation.

For errors you could check the logfiles to explain what went wrong. For Roundcube errors check the /logs/errors file and for general mail errors check the /var/log/mail.log file.

Lastly, after you have checked that your new install is working properly, We need to change the symbolic link from our old installation to the new one. Then you can remove the previous version of roundcubemail from your webserver with:

sudo rm /Library/WebServer/Documents/roundcubemail
sudo ln -s /Library/WebServer/Documents/roundcubemail-0.4 /Library/WebServer/Documents/roundcubemail

This update release fixes lots of bugs and improves the file upload when composing a mail message. Also some of the plugins have been improved and translated into more languages.

I’ve been using 0.3 for some time now and I haven’t encountered any of the bugs, I would almost say it’s feels like a proper solid release and not a 0.x version. If you want to know what’s updated have a look at the changelog.

My advice, upgrade as soon as possible. Download the latest version from here.

To upgrade roundcube, if you’ve used the DIYMacServer provided installation instructions, and if you are upgrading from 0.2 stable are:

Extract the 0.3 archive into '/Library/WebServer/Documents'. Create new copies of the configuration files and edit them to reflect the same settings as in the 0.2 installation.

CD into the new extracted directory and make the temp and log folder writeable for Apache with the following commands:

chown -R _www:_www temp
chown -R _www:_www logs

Remove the original ’roundcubemail’ symbolic link in '/Library/WebServer/Documents' and create a new one:

sudo ln -s /Library/WebServer/Documents/roundcubemail.0.3 /Library/WebServer/Documents/roundcubemail

That’s it.

New things included are a simple installer function, HTML editor (TniyMCE) for creating HTML email and collapsable folders and much more. If you want to upgrade there are some instructions on how to do that in the most simple way possible without interfering too much with existing users.

By the way, because of the installer option I’ve also rewritten the installation instructions.

If you want to you can download the new version and start installing/upgrading. Download it from here.

I wonder how long it will be before we see a proper regular release. For more than a year it has been nothing but beta and RC’s. The product is stable enough to be used in a production environment and has enough features to be able to use it daily. I wonder what is keeping it from releasing it properly.

To update roundcube, if you’ve used the DIYMacServer provided installation instructions, and if you are upgrading from RC1 are:

Extract the RC2 archive into '/Library/WebServer/Documents'. Create new copies of the configuration files and edit them to reflect the same settings as in the RC1 installation.

Remove the original ’roundcubemail’ symbolic link and create a new one:

sudo ln -s /Library/WebServer/Documents/roundcubemail-0.1-RC2 /Library/WebServer/Documents/roundcubemail

Nothing more to do ! If you have an older version it’s necessary to recreate the database because it has changed. Just do a ‘drop databasename’ and run the sql scripts as explained in the installation documentation.

There is an update manual included in the download file so there is no need for me to explain, although I had some issues with the database update script and I went for re-initialization of the database. So dropping all tables and run the mysql5.initial.sql script.

If you are new to roundcube, here is my installation manual.