This page lists only some commonly encountered SquirrelMail bugs. You can find more information in SquirrelMail changelogs.
Stable versions
SquirrelMail 1.4.0
- Plugins that worked in previous stable version can be broken due to changes in structure of function files.
SquirrelMail 1.4.2
- Calendar plugin is broken.
- Fixes:
- a) Use the one that is available in 1.4.1
- b) Use shared_calendars plugin
- c) Apply [fix]
SquirrelMail 1.4.3
SquirrelMail 1.4.3a
- Newmail sounds don't work due to incorrect html formating. See [patch].
- German translation displays html entities in Addresses page.
SquirrelMail 1.4.3, 1.5.0 or later.
- Translations that work in previous versions are not working even when translation files are installed and webserver is restarted.
- SquirrelMail enabled use of full locale name in all ISO-8859-x based translations. Used locale name is not compatible with glibc library changes made by some Linux distributions (namely Mandrake). See [fix]
SquirrelMail 1.4.4
- Administrator plugin does not work with uid based authentication. Incorrect uid check. See [patch].
- Unknown function call, if hardcoded signature size quota is exceeded. Incomplete backport from devel. See [patch1] and [patch2].
- Address book can add entries only to personal address book. See [patch].
- If edit button in Address listing is selected without selecting address book entry, "Unknown error" message is produced. See [patch]
- Thai translation is not available.
- Translation was removed because it contains less than 50% translated strings and is not updated.
- SquirrelMail logs out before calling the logout hook, thus breaking some plugins. See [patch1] and [patch2].
SquirrelMail 1.4.5
- PHP 5.0.5+ causes fatal errors in messages with priority headers. See [1237160 tracker]
- PHP 5.0.4+ causes E_NOTICE errors in message and delivery classes. See [fix1] and [fix2].
- E_NOTICE errors in search page. See [fix]
- Selection boxes are empty in SquirrelSpell plugin on Windows servers. See [fix].
SquirrelMail 1.4.6
- Mailbox caching issues for deleted messages in second and later pages in paginated display mode. Possible errors when switching from paginated to non-paginated message listing mode. See SquirrelMail tracker [1304408]
SquirrelMail 1.4.7
- Spamcop web based reporting does not work, if reporter is not logged into Spamcop. See [#1519673 fix]
SquirrelMail 1.4.8
- Plain text attachments that contain long lines are rejected by mail server with 534 SMTP error because they aren't properly encoded by SquirrelMail. See tracker: [1473714].
SquirrelMail 1.4.11
- It's not possible to attach more than one attachment and when sending the mail no attachments are actually sent. See tracker: [1805471].
- Attachments do not persist when the address book is used to select the destination addresses [1867203]
Development versions
SquirrelMail 1.5.0
- Development/test release
- TLS connections are broken
- INBOX folder is not accessable
- Fixes:
- a) subscribe to INBOX
- b) disable advanced tree code and use oldway folder listing (11. Tweaks)
- c) Use 1.5.1.
- Fatal error: Cannot re-assign $this
- If you use PHP 5.0.x, use latest stable SquirrelMail version (currently 1.4.4) or 1.5.1.
- If you still can reproduce this error in latest stable version with PHP register_globals set to off, provide more details to SquirrelMail developers.
SquirrelMail 1.5.1
- New Mail plugin follows folder preferences and displays total number of messages.
- Mailbox caching breaks creation of special folders, if folders are not subscribed. Fixed in src/left_main.php v.1.240.
- Logins fail in IE for Mac. Used cookie format is not compatible with this browser. Browser appends semicolon to cookie path.
- Logins fail in PHP 4.4.2+ and 5.1.2+ - PHP header() function changes broke custom SquirrelMail cookie code. [1597162 tracker]
- preg_split() expects parameter 4 to be long, string given in functions/imap_messages.php, see [1543573 tracker]
SquirrelMail 1.5.2 and later
- Script layout is changed. If plugins are written for older SquirrelMail code and load include/validate.php, functions/i18n.php, or functions/constants.php, code will break.
- Undefined index: imapConnection FILE: /path/to/squirrelmail/templates/default/left_main.tpl when using the default template set. This variable was pulled due to some versions of PHP causing Apache to segfault. Workaround is to use the default_advanced template set. (NOTE: this issue may be fixed more recently(?))
Specific PHP versions
PHP 4.4.5
PHP 4.4.5 causes Apache to segfault when calling session_register on an undefined variable. There is a SquirrelMail bug [#1664155] related to this issue, but this is actually [PHP Bug #40514]. There is a workaround listed on the SquirrelMail bug.
PHP 4.4.0 or later + register_globals=on + SquirrelMail 1.4.5 or older
- Variable corruption in messages with attachments. See [fix].
PHP 4.4.1
- Broken PHP next() and prev() functions. Use PHP 4.4.0 or 4.4.x-dev snapshot. See [PHP bug report] and [patch]. Issue can be solved by enabling server side sorting in SquirrelMail (conf.pl -> 4. General Options -> 11. Allow server-side sorting) if your IMAP server supports it. Please note, that this is only quick workaround and unfixed PHP 4.4.1 setup is unreliable.
- Broken mb_encode_mimeheader() function. Japanese translation creates broken email headers. See [PHP bug report]
PHP 5.1
