SquirrelMail - Webmail for Nuts!

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While using Apache 2.x with PHP4.2.x, a number of issues have been seen.  Some of these are:

* Plugins fail to load
* Error "cannot load ../data/default_pref"   (see note #1  for fix)
* Inbox does not appear once logged in; browser loads perpetually (see note #2 for fix)
* Themes not being applied even though change is stored

This issue seems to have come about due to Apache 2.x and PHP4.2.x working together and breaking relative paths (ie ../filename instead of /my/path/filename).  This bug was reported at php.net and can be seen at the urls:

* http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=19323
* http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=19287

The suggested course of action is to upgrade your version of PHP to PHP4-STABLE-200210011500 or higher, or consider changing Apache back to the 1.3 branch.

# This error can be avoided by setting you data directory to the absolute path (ie ../data/ --> /usr/local/www/squirrelmail/data/)
# As an extension to this, this can be fixed (*Warning only semi-tested*) by running the following command at the ...\squirrelmail\src directory: (I suggest cut-and-paste for this)

'''NOTE:''' Adjust this for your path to squirrelmail using {{\/}} in place of {{/}}'s. That's a backslash then forwardslash - not a {{V}})

<code>
perl -pe "s/\'\.\.\//\'\/usr\/local\/www\/squirrelmail\//;" -i *php
</code>

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