Category: Webmail

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The following bug was registered with the PEAR bugtracking system (at http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=13748) ; we believe the issue to be more related to missing error checks in tikiwiki than with Net_POP3. If somebody could look into this from the tikiwiki side of things it'd be much appreciated.

thanks

k.

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Description:
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The Tikiwiki groupware comes with version 1.1.2.5 of the net_pop3
package. Whenever I want to collect mail with pop3, I get the message
"Catchable fatal error: Object of class PEAR_Error could not be
converted to string in
/home/vicfont/public_html/forum/lib/webmail/net_pop3.php on line 909".

I investigated a bit and found that file net_pop3.php actually
corresponds to this package POP3.php. So my guess was to exchange the
file for the new version 1.3.6 - but still the same problem occurs (now
on line 897 though...)

I now believe that this is a bug in the PEAR package, which somehow
must dpend on the PHP configuration, as there are thousands of Tikiwiki
installations running with no problems...

Please help me with this. And feel free to get in touch if you need to
know anything about my PHP installation or configuration.

Best wishes,
Jan
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PluginMail fails when the address list contains two groups with users being members of both groups.

I tested with 3 groups:

Group10 (user11, user 12)
Group20 (user21, user 22)
Group30 (user11, user 12, user21, user 22, user31, user 32)
Sending mail to Group 10+Group20 works
Sending mail to Group 10+Group30 returns an error like

{CODE()}
System error.

The following error message was returned:

The query was:
select `email` from `users_users` where `userId` in (?,?,?,?,?,?,?)

Values:

1. 8
2. 9
3. 6
4. 7
5. 10
6. 11
7. 1

The built query was likely:
select `email` from `users_users` where `userId` in ('8','9','6','7','10','11','1')
{CODE}

Hi there everyone, newbie calling.

I work in a technical operations area. Currently developing the wiki as a wiki for operational staff across various areas but thought I would use some more of the functions that are available.

As an operations area there is a requirement for logs to be written daily by operation staff across different departments and to be e-mailed to management staff.

My idea is to give each department (5 in total) a separate blog. Only members of each department can write to their blog but any member of each department can read the other blogs. So far so good. By tagging each entry searches across blogs can identify faults across departments. This works perfectly and therefore preferable to a forum based solution as I need it to be as simple as possible for the operational staff.

However there is a requirement to print each log on a daily basis and ideally e-mail it to non-members (managers) possibily dependent upon tags. Obviously it is simple to print each separate entry but what I am looking for is a way of printing a 24 hour period of blog entries, or exporting them to a text file (word or e-mail body for example) to be distributed and printed. This is because there can be as many as 100 blog entries per day and it would be time consuming (and forest destroying) to print each one out individually.

Apologies if this is covered in a document that I have missed but I am still trying to absorb all the variables. I have also posted it in the forums to see if someone has any ideas with existing features or indeed using it in this way.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

The Tiki preference "Session storage location" must not be set to "database"

{QUOTE(replyto="kroky6" date="2023-03-10")}Debugged for some hours and came up with this:
- no problem in cypht code itself - reply details are sent to the session to be written and requested from session on the compose page but there are not there when requested
- session Tiki-Cypht integration - no problem as well, session is written when request finishes
- data that is written to the mysql sessions table (this Tiki stores sessions in db) is correct (contains the reply details)
- however, the data is not in mysql database after write

Tried to debug more with manual query, tried to simplify with select and then update or insert instead of replace type of query but again the same result.

I think this is what happens - every time this bug happens, there are multiple AJAX requests executed in the background. I think they overlap in time which results in the following race condition:
1. get message content cypht ajax request begins and is processing.
2. another ajax request begins and opens the session (reads the current session and there are no reply details there).
3. get message content cypht ajax request writes the session when completing and writes the reply details
4. the other ajax request finishes after that and writes the session but it doesn't have the reply details (effectively overwriting another process's session).

I think we switched for non-locking mode of db sessions to speed up this Tiki but when we face overlapping ajax requests this has adverse side effects. Do you remember why did we switch to non-locking mode? I think we should either update cypht-Tiki integration to send one ajax request at a time or switch to session lock mode the whole site.{QUOTE}

Using the tiki-mailin feature (for Wiki-Put or Article-Put), I consistently see right after the body tag, a PHP message showing me the array being populated. This happens whether or not there's an error in the posting itself.

Can someone explain why this is happening?

Source of example is attached. (@@@ indicates prvate information). Thanks.

Is it possible to give a checkbox or setting to turn this off?

There is no search option on Tiki Webmail.
This is not really an option for real life usage and a search feature is much needed.

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The ((doc:Inter-User Messages)) system is quite nice.

However, it means:
1- That users have duplicate mailboxes
2- And the recipient can't just click reply

On dev.tikiwiki.org, this is not so nice because people already have an internal tiki mailbox on tikiwiki.org

So, let's think about an additional/modified feature called "direct message" or "direct mail".

This would simulate a regular email. (let's plan ahead that this should be able to send other types of messages (jabber, sms, etc.)

The headers could be:
"from" is Full Name ({$Username}) {senderemail}
"to" is Full Name ({$Username}) {recipientemail}
"bcc" to {senderemail} (So we have a trace of what we sent)

In case some spammers get a hold of it, let's have something like this at the bottom:
This message was sent via {$name of site}


Not sure if this should be done with the ((doc:webmail)) feature, or maybe as an option of ((doc:Inter-User Messages))

See how MediaWiki does it for a good example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/Marclaporte

Hi all,

when I go to Messages from 'Application Menu>Control Panel>Messages',
I can see the section "Activate the feature" and the possibility to acticate/deactivate the feature. But when I want to see the Settings through the 'Actions' nothing is displayed. The page is refreshed, but the Settings aren't shown.

The same behabiour I have experienced with Webmail and Maps.


Cheers,
Manel

A lot of people who install this aren't doing it via Fantastico and trying to change email settings to suit your hosting provider is a pain. Editing the php.ini isn't always wise either because what works for one app will break another. I know that you can copy the php.ini to the directory, but that's something of a security risk. There's a reason that the default php.ini is stored outside the web root directory.

I know that I see a lot of users posting on the TikiWiki forums with questions about configuring SMTP.

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Since stalation I do not succeed to make TW to send e-mails.

When I try to configure e-mail for sending configuration.

I went to the page to config e-mail sending at:
http://wiki.troquei.com/tikiwiki/tiki-admin.php?page=general

however I got an error that says:

A timeout occured while waiting for the script output (in: /usr/www/users/wikilg/tikiwiki/tiki-admin.php).

The Webmail and Groupmail feature uses old Tiki icons (or plain text).

They should use the last Tiki icon generation (FontAwesome) and text links should be modernized accordingly.

Tiki newsletter works well for small volumes.

But for large volumes, as with any web app, sending emails from a server can be a challenge. Risk of being flagged as spammer, high server load/difficult to throttle, limits from your web hosts (ex.: max x emails per hour), etc

A helpful alternative would be something like this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4883

So my Thunderbird client or desktop newsletter application (ex.: [http://gammadyne.com/mmail.htm|Gammadybe Mailer]) should be able to access the TikiWiki database to generate recipient list.



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Another approach is to make the Tiki contacts (address book) accessible via the LDAP protocol and thus, email clients can access.

Related:
http://www.egroupware.org/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=wiki.uiwiki.view&page=AddresbookAccountsConcept

fields defined varchar(256) fail on MySQL 4.0

db/tiki.slq lines 4868 and 4877

the last two tables added: tiki_webmail_contacts_ext and tiki_webmail_contacts_fields

I would fix it if i had check-in powers sorted out (working on it) but i'm not sure that wouldn't it break anything else (in webmail?)

When viewing a message and then clicking on "full headers", Tiki dies with the following error:

An error occurred while loading /tiki-webmail.php?locSection=read&msgid=1&fullheaders=1:
Connection to host localhost is broken.

This might be related to tw#355 - mail headers not being standard conformant and having "Message-Id" instead of "Message-ID" - not sure though.

Using the Webmail inbox module combined with Groupmail feature displays a "Take" option for any user authorized to grab an email and deal with it.

Unfortunately when clicking on TAKE nothing happens (on the user side).

I setup a webmail account and viewed mail box in tiki webmail. after that I sent two mails from another account with different subject and body. I viewed both of them in mail box and clicked one of them. after going back to mail box both mails was marked as read! so I selected witch I haven't read and marked it as unread, but both of them was marked as unread!

Webmail inbox module is not shown any more in 20.x and 21.x, and no clear indication what replaces it, if any (not in the documentation pages for ((doc:Groupmail)) nor its profile ((pr:Groupmail_20))

Maybe that module needs to be removed from the tiki code base if webmail and cypht plugin is meant to replace it somehow? (unclear how, yet, to me)

The webmail currently only supports POP. IMAP support like IMP, Squirrelmail, Roundcube, etc would be much better. It could rely on PHP's imap support like IMP does. People who will want IMAP would have to have it in their PHP, which is in an acceptable requirement.