Cypht - Lightweight open source webmail application written in PHP and JavaScript

[robi]

@Kubernetes ?

[Kubernetes]

I started to create a package in my Repo

• It is not yet working
• PHP needs to be activated in nginx
• The hm3.ini is very basic and needs improvement (missing SMTP config, Database Config, LDAP Config)
• there might be more issues when PHP is running
• easy installer will not be ready before the package is usable

[Kubernetes]

Grmpf.... I am totally lost with getting nginx up and running....

I receive these error logs:

root@b64767c7-9e50-475e-9f57-40b454d06b97:/app/code# ./start.sh 
==> Starting App
2024-02-06 17:29:06,821 CRIT Supervisor is running as root.  Privileges were not dropped because no user is specified in the config file.  If you intend to run as root, you can set user=root in the config file to avoid this message.
2024-02-06 17:29:06,824 INFO supervisord started with pid 35
2024-02-06 17:29:07,829 INFO spawned: 'nginx' with pid 46
nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open() "/var/log/nginx/error.log" failed (30: Read-only file system)
2024/02/06 17:29:07 [warn] 46#46: the "user" directive makes sense only if the master process runs with super-user privileges, ignored in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:1
2024/02/06 17:29:07 [emerg] 46#46: mkdir() "/run/client_body" failed (13: Permission denied)
2024-02-06 17:29:07,863 INFO exited: nginx (exit status 1; not expected)

I don't understand why it still tries to use /var/log/nginx/error.log

I am using supervisord to start, in nginx.conf the access and error logs are directed to /run . even in the nginx default I refer to /run for the logging.

I have updated the source in my repo, if someone want to have a look

[timconsidine]

I'm not sure, so genuine question : does /run/client_body need to be created in the Dockerfile or start.sh ?

The error log is strange as you have set it explicitly.
Is this line include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf; including a master conf which overrides the nginx.conf ?
Not an nginx expoert, just taking guesses.

[Kubernetes]

@timconsidine Thanks for sharing ideas, the path /etc/nginx/conf.d/ is empty

[timconsidine]

Hmmm.
I notice that /run/access.log and /run/error.log are owned root:root and are rw-r--r--
But processes are running as www-data or cloudron ?
Still just chucking stuff around

[robi]

Perhaps it's looking for an environment variable and when not found it uses a default. Set HOME and whatever else nginx looks for with supervisor.

[Kubernetes]

@robi I already tried with HOME, didn't help

[Kubernetes]

Okay, I got one step further after using a symlink in Dockerfile for the error.log

It seems the document root is still broken, because I get
Feb 06 20:22:40=> Healtheck error got response status 502

Okay, this is because of not properly working php

root@da491a6f-01a2-4d9c-859a-e34799e1c3cf:/app/code# tail -f /run/error.log 
2024/02/06 19:25:20 [crit] 24#24: *37 connect() to unix:/run/php/php8.1-fpm.sock failed (2: No such file or directory) while connecting to upstream, client: 172.18.0.1, server: _, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/run/php/php8.1-fpm.sock:", host: "a101.

[girish]

@Kubernetes Can you tell me why cypht requires nginx? You can just modphp like other apps no? Atleast, that's what I see from https://www.cypht.org/install.html . Does it not work in the LAMP app?

As for apache itself, see cryptpad or discourse or nginx. They have a readonly config for nginx. They configure various paths that nginx wants to write to.

[Kubernetes]

@girish haha, good question! In fact I prefer nginx because I have "more" experience with it than with apache. I got a bit further now, if that keep failing I may change from nginx to apache

[robi]

@Kubernetes hmm, try some debug set commands https://www.baeldung.com/linux/nginx-log-variable-output

this was interesting too:
https://www.baeldung.com/linux/nginx-config-environment-variables
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21866477/nginx-use-environment-variables

or just stick them in a cyclic memory:2m
https://adamtheautomator.com/nginx-logs/

[Kubernetes]

@girish thanks for pointing me to Apache. I was able to get it running now. Next problem is the authentication.

[girish]

If it has IMAP or SMTP auth, use the "email" addon. Like in roundcube - https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/roundcube-app/-/blob/master/config.inc.php?ref_type=heads#L9

[Kubernetes]

No luck today, now I just get an error from the App that Invalid auth configuration.

[robi]

@Kubernetes is that a typo in the start.sh?

#sed -i "s/^imap_auth_tls=.*/imap_auth_tls=${CLOUDRON_EMAIL_IMAPS_PORT}/" /app/data/hm3.ini

IMAP vs IMAPS

[Kubernetes]

@robi I think this is okay. In the current state it is not used anyways, because after a change of the .ini a config generation php script needs to be run. So I have to move that to the Docker Image build process, because during runtime it is read-only...

[Kubernetes]

Okay, here we go...

• The Cypht App is using Apache2 to get served.
• The Login (auth) still fails - I have no idea why.
• The PHP Session caching seems to fail in addition.
• The use of redis db doesn't work at the moment.

Some Logs:

[Wed Feb 07 07:51:10.118044 2024] [php:notice] [pid 19] [client 172.18.0.1:51058] Array\n(\n    [0] => Using Hm_PHP_Session with Hm_Auth_IMAP\n    [1] => Using file based user configuration\n    [2] => Using sapi: apache2handler\n    [3] => Request type: HTTP\n    [4] => Request path: /\n    [5] => TLS request: 0\n    [6] => Mobile request: 0\n    [7] => Page ID: home\n    [8] => Using Hm_Cache for cache\n    [9] => Redis connect failed\n    [10] => Memcached enabled but not supported by PHP\n    [11] => CACHE backend using: noop\n    [12] => TRANSLATION NOT FOUND :Cypht powered by Cloudron:\n    [13] => PHP version 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.14\n    [14] => Zend version 4.1.2\n    [15] => Peak Memory: 4096\n    [16] => PID: 19\n    [17] => Included files: 78\n)\n
[Wed Feb 07 07:51:15.862828 2024] [php:notice] [pid 14] [client 172.18.0.1:37006] Array\n(\n    [0] => Using Hm_PHP_Session with Hm_Auth_IMAP\n    [1] => Using file based user configuration\n    [2] => Using sapi: apache2handler\n    [3] => Request type: HTTP\n    [4] => Request path: /\n    [5] => TLS request: 0\n    [6] => Mobile request: 0\n    [7] => Page ID: home\n    [8] => Using Hm_Cache for cache\n    [9] => Redis connect failed\n    [10] => Memcached enabled but not supported by PHP\n    [11] => CACHE backend using: noop\n    [12] => \nDebug Array\n(\n)\n\nResponse Array\n(\n)\n\n    [13] => Invalid IMAP auth configuration settings\n    [14] => Setting cookie: name: hm_msgs, lifetime: 0, path: /, domain: a100.XXXXXX.XXX, secure: , html_only 1\n    [15] => Redirecting to /\n    [16] => PHP version 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.14\n    [17] => Zend version 4.1.2\n    [18] => Peak Memory: 4096\n    [19] => PID: 14\n    [20] => Included files: 77\n)\n, referer: https://a100.XXXXXX.XXX/
[Wed Feb 07 07:51:15.890047 2024] [php:notice] [pid 15] [client 172.18.0.1:37018] Array\n(\n    [0] => Using Hm_PHP_Session with Hm_Auth_IMAP\n    [1] => Using file based user configuration\n    [2] => Using sapi: apache2handler\n    [3] => Request type: HTTP\n    [4] => Request path: /\n    [5] => TLS request: 0\n    [6] => Mobile request: 0\n    [7] => Page ID: home\n    [8] => Using Hm_Cache for cache\n    [9] => Redis connect failed\n    [10] => Memcached enabled but not supported by PHP\n    [11] => CACHE backend using: noop\n    [12] => Deleting cookie: name: hm_msgs, lifetime: 1707288675, path: /, domain: a100.XXXXX.XXX, secure: , html_only 1\n    [13] => TRANSLATION NOT FOUND :Cypht powered by Cloudron:\n    [14] => PHP version 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.14\n    [15] => Zend version 4.1.2\n    [16] => Peak Memory: 4096\n    [17] => PID: 15\n    [18] => Included files: 78\n)\n, referer: https://a100.XXXXXX.XXX/
[Wed Feb 07 07:51:20.097269 2024] [php:notice] [pid 16] [client 172.18.0.1:37028] Array\n(\n    [0] => Using Hm_PHP_Session with Hm_Auth_IMAP\n    [1] => Using file based user configuration\n    [2] => Using sapi: apache2handler\n    [3] => Request type: HTTP\n    [4] => Request path: /\n    [5] => TLS request: 0\n    [6] => Mobile request: 0\n    [7] => Page ID: home\n    [8] => Using Hm_Cache for cache\n    [9] => Redis connect failed\n    [10] => Memcached enabled but not supported by PHP\n    [11] => CACHE backend using: noop\n    [12] => TRANSLATION NOT FOUND :Cypht powered by Cloudron:\n    [13] => PHP version 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.14\n    [14] => Zend version 4.1.2\n    [15] => Peak Memory: 4096\n    [16] => PID: 16\n    [17] => Included files: 78\n)\n

The Invalid IMAP auth configuration settings error appeared after I removed the 143 imap port from configuration and kept only 9993 for secure imap

When adding 143 again to the hm3.ini I get this error when trying to login:

[Wed Feb 07 08:01:27.837212 2024] [php:notice] [pid 16] [client 172.18.0.1:42946] Array\n(\n    [0] => Using Hm_PHP_Session with Hm_Auth_IMAP\n    [1] => Using file based user configuration\n    [2] => Using sapi: apache2handler\n    [3] => Request type: HTTP\n    [4] => Request path: /\n    [5] => TLS request: 0\n    [6] => Mobile request: 0\n    [7] => Page ID: home\n    [8] => Using Hm_Cache for cache\n    [9] => Redis connect failed\n    [10] => Memcached enabled but not supported by PHP\n    [11] => CACHE backend using: noop\n    [12] => \nDebug Array\n(\n    [0] => Connecting to tls://mail on port 143\n    [1] => Could not connect to the IMAP server\n    [2] => fsockopen errors #111. Connection refused\n)\n\nResponse Array\n(\n)\n\n    [13] => Unable to connect to the IMAP auth server mail\n    [14] => Setting cookie: name: hm_msgs, lifetime: 0, path: /, domain: a100.XXXXXX.XXX, secure: , html_only 1\n    [15] => Redirecting to /\n    [16] => PHP version 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.14\n    [17] => Zend version 4.1.2\n    [18] => Peak Memory: 4096\n    [19] => PID: 16\n    [20] => Included files: 77\n)\n, referer: https://a100.XXXXXX.XXX/

[Kubernetes]

Heureka! I got it working now after putting 9993 as "normal/unsecure" imap server port config....
I will prepare the easy installer now and then some more people should check if it works correctly - be carefull and use a dummy mailbox - just in case it starts to run wild and delete emails or so!

During my own tests I found following issues:

• SMTP is not working (outgoing email)
• Profile is not saved - after logout the profile is gone

Link to Repo

[robi]

Excellent, nice work, progress bit by bit!