Hi again Now I feel a bit of a fool! I just check the permissions on the default_pref file. They were wrong. Don't know how this happened but all is okay now.
regards -- Paj On 3 Jun 2003 at 21:17, Paj wrote: > Hi > > I have just joined this list. > I am using Win2K pro SP3, IIS5 (fully patched) & SSL, Mercury32 v3.32, SM > 1.4.0, php 4.3.2 > > After a bit of tweaking I have everything working well. > I do get the error: > Error opening ../data/default_pref > Default preference file not found or not readable! > If I create a blank .pref file with the few basic defaults for the user > then the error goes away and SM works as it should. All other files can be > created and edited as they should be using SM. > > Also had the logon loop (you must be logged on to view this page) which > again was fixed using advice from messages on this list. > > I also had problems with Message Highlighting but fixed that using a link > in a message from this list (I think). With this a list of error would > show and the message would not be highlighted. There would be no subject > and the date was for 1970. Clicking on the message would display the > message correctly. > > Problems with the spell checker not working were fixed, again with advice > on this list. > > Also the search function would not work. It would show several lines of > errors and then show the correct messages containing the search string. > However there was the problem of the subject being blank and the date was > for 1970. Again the message would display correctly when clicked. This was > for all tested accounts. This has now gone away. The only things I can > think that has cured this is the changes I made to the folder defaults > using conf.pl. I also deleted all the users files (except for their > password) from the mercury mail folder. This never made any difference > until I also made the Folder Defaults changes. The changes I made to the > folder defaults are below: > > 1. Default Folder Prefix: I have left this blank > 2. Show Folder Prefix Option: false > 3. Trash Folder: Trash > 4. Sent Folder: Sent > 5. Drafts Folder: Drafts > 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11 all set to true > 12. Default Sub. of Inbox: false > > This gets to my questions. > Are these settings OK? > Everything seems to work well (except the Error opening > ../data/default_pref problem). > Do you think it could be these changes that made the problem of searching > messages go away? I have made them because Mercury does not support > folders in folders. > > Thanks to anyone who has got this far. > > regards > > -- > Paj > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay > Get office equipment for less on eBay! > http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 > -- > squirrelmail-users mailing list > List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 > List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
