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

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!

SansGuidon

I'm interested in having this web mail as an alternative to the existing solutions in Cloudron App Store. Any help needed to package it?

andreasdueren

@SansGuidon Looks like you can probably install it in a LAMP app

SansGuidon

Good to know! I have to investigate then and maybe share the resulting full-install script with Cloudron community once working, as done for yt-dlp (https://gitea.zoemp.be/sansguidon/snippets/src/branch/main/cloudron/awesome-installs/yt-dlp.sh) even if ideally I would like to have it auto updated by Cloudron

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