Hello SquirrelMail experts, Hello Mike, I did add the newmail plugin to my SquirrelMail setup and it worked fine at once. Many thanks to the author. ;-) Then I tried to change the default: I wanted to enable a "new mail" sound to be effective for all users, but did not find out how to do that. Users shall be able to choose their own "newmail" setting, but I want to control the default for all users who don't change anything. It's possible to achieve that with forced_prefs plugin (added_settings), but that's not quite the way I'd like to do that, because forced_prefs writes the setting to the user prefs as soon as they log in, and any further changes to my default wouldn't affect them. I tried to add my designated default to load_prefs.php - but it does not work like this: $newmail_enable = getPref($data_dir, $username, 'newmail_enable', 'on'); $newmail_media = getPref($data_dir, $username, 'newmail_media', 'http://server/squirrelmail/plugins/newmail/sounds/yougotmail.wav'); What is the right way? Something else that I mulled over after I found out how newmail writes the settings to the user prefs files: Like above, it writes the full path for the sound. I am not certain if that is good. In my setup, SquirrelMail is to be used in a LAN only and the users can just enter the name of the server's computer (i.e. "server") to get the index page, or "server/squirrelmail" to start SquirrelMail. Works fine with Firefox on Windows, but for a reason unknown to me, Firefox on Linux can't access the server by its name - it will start a web search for "server" instead. So the IP address has to be used to get to the server and to SquirrelMail, and the absolute path stored in user prefs would not work in theory, but for another reason unknown to me, it works fine and the sound is played. However, if we should choose to allow access to SquirrelMail from outside the LAN (the Internet!), neither the server name nor the local IP address can possibly work for the soundfile URL. Similar problem if we change the server's name or move SquirrelMail to another computer. ??? Yours, Gregor ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
