Comments on: Installing Roundcube for webmail

By: remort

remort — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:45:30 +0000

Hi, Richard. The problem was in case of installing RC + old version of courier mail (actually with imapd component). At home RC works pefectly with dovecot on my gentoo host.

The problem described in this bug ticket:
http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1488057#comment:6

The are two things as i have noticed: my old imapd server sends AUTH=PLAIN in CAPABILITIES string while connect. But reject this type of authentication.
But the second thing that RC does’n look in that CAP string cause when i added AUTH=LOGIN to the CAP string of imapd, RC still choose PLAIN authtype cause it’s kinda default logic in authenticate() function in RC. Something like that. So i changed this in sourcecode, because RC config-file manipulations with authtype didn’t help me to change authtype to LOGIN.

CAP string of my imapd:

CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA AUTH=PLAIN IDLE XCOURIEROUTBOX=INBOX.Outbox XMAGICTRASH

i changed it to :

CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=PLAIN IDLE XCOURIEROUTBOX=INBOX.Outbox XMAGICTRASH

but RC still set PLAIN authtype.

Anyway problem is solved for me now.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:41:22 +0000

@remort, sorry for responding too late but would you be willing to share your config of Dovecot and roundcube to see where it went wrong? It should work out of the box as described in all the documentation on this site.

Update: please mail to info @ this domain.

By: remort

remort — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:39:09 +0000

the problem was solved by hard setting a LOGIN authtype in source-code. config variable didn’t make any sense.

By: remort

remort — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:46:08 +0000

the version of RC is 0.5.4
imap server trying to authenticate user but user occasionally disconnects.
i think RC disconnectrs from the socket because it can’t find a user in SQL DB.
maybe i’m wrong…

By: remort

remort — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:43:08 +0000

I set up an RC to work at localhost with postfix, imap_L as it shown above in text. When i try to test my IMAP connection it always fails. U tried many times with different options and found that RC tries to make an SQL query into it’s database for user with id=2.
I think it’s because of $rcmail_config['auto_create_user'] logic. It set to ‘true’ but RC still tries to look for user in DB. DB is empty expect of sessions.

I am going to check PHP logic about this option now, but i really stumped already.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:21:11 +0000

Brijesh, this is an older instruction which has been surpassed by a newer one. Thanks for reminding me of this page, I forgot about it. I will put a notice on it pointing to the latest one here: http://diymacserver.com/mail/snow-leopard/installing-postfixadmin/ There you should be abe to find the instructions you are looking for.

By: Brijesh

Brijesh — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:53:51 +0000

I have completely setup the round cube mail to run as localhost, but at the starting page, i dont hav any user and password to login with. Plz help me out.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:54:24 +0000

@Hector, it looks like you forget to setup the directory structure correctly for some part of the installation. It could be at postfixadmin to see if that worked correctly check the database if it shows the proper directories for the user. Or it could be for courierauth.

By: Hector

Hector — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:14:39 +0000

Hi Richard,
I think I am almost there, but I am stuck on the mail delivery. Here’s a brief summary:
1. Roundcube can send email through the test page and it can also see the IMAP server. Both authenticate correctly through mysql according to the mail log.
2. In the Roundcube user mail interface, there is only an INBOX and no email messages. If I add mail foders, they don’t show although in the folders tab I can see them. Enabling them on the folders tab doesn’t make a difference.
3. In the /usr/local/virtual/ I can see the folders, but they are on the root of the directory. I was under the impression that it would create a folder within and dump all the mail items in there. Here is the terminal print (my user name is “el”):MacMini:virtual el$ sudo ls -l -a
Password:
total 0
drwxrwx–x 3 _vmail _postfix 102 Dec 18 11:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 544 Dec 18 01:04 ..
drwx—— 9 _vmail _postfix 306 Dec 18 11:37 .test-rename
MacMini:virtual el$ pwd
/usr/local/virtual
MacMini:virtual el$ mail
Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help.
“/var/mail/el”: 7 messages 7 unread
>U 1 el@tachin.com Thu Dec 17 00:16 21/554 “test”
U 2 el@tachin.com Thu Dec 17 01:08 15/474 “Test message from RoundCube”
U 3 el@tachin.com Thu Dec 17 01:15 15/474 “Test message from RoundCube”
U 4 paty@tachin.com Thu Dec 17 01:23 15/480 “Test message from RoundCube”
U 5 paty@tachin.com Thu Dec 17 01:25 21/578 “trying”
U 6 paty@tachin.com Fri Dec 18 00:55 15/480 “Test message from RoundCube”
U 7 paty@tachin.com Fri Dec 18 01:06 15/480 “Test message from RoundCube”
? q
Held 7 messages in /var/mail/el
MacMini:virtual el$
As you can see all the mail is going to /var/mail/el.
4. I am only receiving internal mail. No outside mail although port 143 is open.
5. I am not using SASL for now, so I have commented out the SASL in the main.cf

I was wondering if you can give me a few ideas as where to begin troubleshooting the problem. I have checked everything I can think of, but I am not getting anywhere. All the installations went fine. I have configured a couple of Ubuntu servers with the same stuff, so I am familiar with this stuff.

By: JHP

JHP — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:37:49 +0000

Regarding the folders and Mail.app.
The config/main.inc.php hold information about foldernames. It might be easier to correct the config file than use symbolic links