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Qmailadmin plugin for Roundcube
August 28, 2011 by davidc
This is a plugin that adds tabs to the Roundcube settings page, allowing the user to set their vacation message or change their password. Behind the scenes, it logs in to qmailadmin as that user to make the changes. Both vacation and password tabs can be individually disabled.
Note: This screen-scrapes your qmailadmin installation, so currently only works if qmailadmin is in English.
Installation
Extract the zip file into the plugins directory of your Roundcube installation. Under plugins, you should have a directory "qmailadmin", containing "qmailadmin.php" and the other files.
Edit the file config.inc.php, making sure to change the path to your own qmailadmin installation. The configuration options are documented within this file.
You will then find 'Vacation Message' and 'Change Password' tabs on the user settings page.
Screenshots
How it works
Rather than try to modify qmail files or call vpasswd directly, it uses qmailadmin which is already setuid.
It logs in to qmailadmin using the current user's credentials (stored encrypted in their session), retrieves the current settings, modifies them, and saves them again. As qmailadmin has no useful API, it does this by screenscraping the HTML form and pulling out all the INPUT/TEXTAREA elements.
After changing the password, it stores the new password on the user's session, so they don't have to log back in to continue reading their e-mail.
Change Log
1.0.1, 2011-08-29
- Moved configuration options into plugin-specific config.inc.php
- Added optional warning message when vacation message is set.
- Updated for Roundcube 0.5
- Under Roundcube 0.5, use new method to report preference form errors.
1.0.0, 2011-08-28
- Initial release
Future
I may add the option to change the user's message forwarding rules as well (none/delete/forward/forward and save a copy), if there is any demand for this.
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| qmailadmin-1.0.1.zip | 5.2 KB |
Comments
Message Forwarding
May 9, 2013 by monster, 1 week 6 days ago
Comment: 90
Hi David,
This plugin works great. But i am greedy. I am looking forward to have message forwarding rules too. Will you have the time to do it? Please find time
Many thanks
mon
UTF char problems
June 2, 2012 by Ignas, 50 weeks 4 days ago
Comment: 75
Hello,
Good work! I tried this and one thing does not seem to work correctly. When Auto-Reply message contains some letters like ęėėįš (they must be coded in UTF8) I get ugly symbols instead.
Could you help, please?
can this be used with qmail only?
April 18, 2012 by Hossein, 1 year 4 weeks ago
Comment: 71
hello and thank you .
i wanted to know if it works with qmail too , i dont have qmail admin installed , im running kloxo 6.1.12 with qmail . so far i couldnt succeed .
i would be thankful if you guide me on this .
thank you very much :)
Vacation - Error when saving
January 20, 2012 by pikseng, 1 year 17 weeks ago
Comment: 67
I am using centos 5.5, qmailadmin-toaster 1.2.12-1.3.8 and roundcubemail 0.71.
When saving the vacation page, Error "SERVICE CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE" Error No. [1001].
Check the logs/errors:
PHP Error: Unable to login in to qmailadmin.
qmailadmin is there as I can http in directly.
Any idea what is wrong?
Thanks.
Try https
May 9, 2013 by monster, 1 week 6 days ago
Comment: 91
Try https
setting has been reset
January 19, 2012 by hl1723, 1 year 17 weeks ago
Comment: 66
when update the password or vacation use the pulgins, old setting at qmailadmin will lost such as "Spam Detection" , "Save a Copy "...
IT WORKS!!!
October 27, 2011 by linooks, 1 year 29 weeks ago
Comment: 64
Though I have a notification "An error occured while saving" when trying to change the password.
Im using roundcube 0.5.4
Thank you so much - it works!
August 31, 2011 by unicav, 1 year 37 weeks ago
Comment: 60
I've been fighting with the roundcube native password plugin with no success because I don't use mysql with vpopmail and I don't run the vpopmaild daemon. Digging through the net today I happened to see this and had it working in minutes! I changed my password, logged off/on and changed it again and got an error the second time but it changed it anyway, probably a timing issue but I"m not sure.
Any ideas on a password reminder or password reset plugin?
If it happens again, let me
September 1, 2011 by davidc, 1 year 37 weeks ago
Comment: 61
If it happens again, let me know what error you get (and anything in your roundcube errors file), and I'll track it down.
Not sure about the other requests; although vpopmail can be configured to store cleartext passwords, you would also need to store something like the user's alternative e-mail address, or answers to security questions, so it would need a whole new system.
Qmailadmin/Vpopmail Forgotten Password Recovery
September 2, 2011 by unicav, 1 year 37 weeks ago
Comment: 62
I've been digging for days to find a way to do the password recovery option. There is one Forgotten Password plugin I've found but it requires the original Password plugin to do the change. It would have to be written from scratch and I'm just nowhere near that ability right now. I know the basic steps but no idea how to code it.
1st requirement would be to insert a field into the roundcube table or create a new table containing an alternative email address for each user. There would have to be a form in roundcube settings for supplying the alternate email. Next would require a form accessible from a link on the login page that the user would enter their email address. The script would query the table (give an error if there's no alt email) , then call vuserinfo to get their password and send that to the alt email address. A more complicated version would create a random new password, use the qmailadmin plugin to change it to the new password and send the new temp password to the user's alt email. would also be handy to email postmaster@vodmain notifying of the change and if they didnt have an alt email address notify postmaster and tell the user the postmaster has been notified that they have forgotten their password.