IMAP troubles after upgrade to 6.16rev4

[sam]

Hello,

I upgraded a working 6.14rev6 to 6.16rev4 from recent OpenSuse repository.
While everything went very smoothly, there are some strange glitches with the IMAP functionality:

1.) Authentification works, I can even view the folders & messages but clicking on Email icon (next to home icon) will results in this message box:

The E-Mail module is not available
Unable to establish a connection to the E-Mail server. Possible reasons: the mail server is (temporarily) down or there are network connection problems. To prevent further errors the module has been disabled. Please contact your administrator.

But afterwards I can still browse/read emails. Interesting is that there is no relevant log message and I cannot see any IMAP trafic using tcpdump while error message appears.

2.) Selecting "Subscribe folder" seems to hang up the webmail (whole window remains dark/busy)

3.) The IMAP folders are not properly ordered anymore as they were before: now Inbox,Trash,. & other special folders are not on the top but sorted alphabetically among all other folders.


Thanks in advance for your any help or hints where to look further, you did a great job with OX6 !

[Martin Heiland]

Hi,

please uninstall the open-xchange-folder-json package, if installed. Then restart Open-Xchange Server. This package is not intended for productive usage (yet).

Greetings

[sam]

All Issues Solved !

Hi Martin,

Thanks a lot ! Removing that package solves all 3 imap issues listed above.

Unfortunately, I misinterpreted the postings in other recent threads and first tried to deinstall and reinstall this package - which did not help. Did not expect this package is not needed at all.

Is there some place where to look for a short description of each package including some info whether optional/nonoptional production/beta etc. ? I mean there are pretty much small packages at the moment and I could tell (aus dem Bauch her...) just for about 50% of these what they are really used for.

[Martin Heiland]

Hi,

you can find an overview at the wiki:

http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Open-Xchange_Plugin_Overview

and the admin guide:

http://software.open-xchange.com/OX6/doc/OX6-Installation-and-Administration.pdf

All packages have a short description
dpkg --info <package>.deb

open-xchange-folder-json is an optional and experimental package. It's not part of our installation guides nor needed by any other package or installed as a dependency. With 6.14 it did nothing at all, with 6.16 it replaces some functionality which lead to this issue.

Greetings

Greetings