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Today, one of our customers at TBits.net noticed that when composing an e-mail in Roundcube, there is a spell checker button at the top. But only for English, and when there was text in the e-mail, and he clicked on the spell check button, he got the message: “An error was encountered on the server. Please try again later.”

I found the cause in the Roundcube log file, in /var/log/roundcubemail/errors:

PHP Error: Spell check engine error: Pspell extension not available in /usr/share/roundcubemail/program/steps/utils/spell.inc on line 50

So I installed the required packages:

yum install php-pspell aspell-de
systemctl restart httpd

Now this works for English. It seems for German and other languages, there are no packages readily available in the repositories.
I checked https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/aspell-de, there are packages for Fedora, but not for EPEL.

So you go to https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/0index.html#0.60 and download the dictionary for your language, and install it like this on your Kolab server:

tar xjf aspell6-de-20030222-1.tar.bz2
cd aspell6-de-20030222-1
./configure
make
make install

Now do a reload in Roundcube, and now you can check your spelling even in German!

Update: It was suggested by Luca Berra from Italy, to use enchant and hunspell instead of pspell/aspell.

For a discussion of hunspell vs aspell, see http://penguindreams.org/blog/aspell-and-hunspell-a-tale-of-two-spell-checkers/

Luca gave me these instructions:

yum install php-enchant hunspell-it
 
vi /etc/roundcubemail/config.inc.php
    $config['spellcheck_engine'] = 'enchant';

I have not tested this. Thanks to Luca for this suggestion!

Here comes a quick overview on recent updates to Kolab 16 packages.

Please note: I am only using public information. I have no background knowledge about the releases.

Today, the roundcubemail package has been updated from version 1.3.0.41 to 1.3.3. This fixes a security issue, described in https://roundcube.net/news/2017/11/08/security-updates-1.3.3-1.2.7-and-1.1.10. Also see the release notes https://roundcube.net/news/2017/09/04/update-1.3.1-released and https://roundcube.net/news/2017/10/31/update-1.3.2-released for new changes.
Because of this, the packages iRony, kolab-freebusy and kolab-syncroton have been rebuilt as well.

In the past days, erlang-eimap has been updated with a patch for untagged commands. Because of that, guam has also been rebuilt. For details see https://obs.kolabsys.com/package/rdiff/Kolab:16/erlang-eimap?linkrev=base&rev=8

There is documentation about how to import Contacts into the Roundcube address books from CSV files: https://docs.roundcube.net/doc/help/1.1/en_US/addressbook/importexport.html

Unfortunately, that documentation does not come with a description of the columns supported.

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I recently did some investigations into Roundcube.

One task was to disable the files plugin for certain users.

The other task was to disable the option to export the full addressbook.

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There has been a new release of Roundcube: https://roundcube.net/news/2016/09/28/updates-1.2.2-and-1.1.6-published

I have updated the OBS packages with this version, and you can run yum update or apt-get update && apt-get upgrade depending on your Linux OS.

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An XSS vulnerability has been reported, and fixed in roundcube.
see http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/414
and https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/issues/5240
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There has been a new release of Roundcube: https://roundcube.net/news/2016/04/20/updates-1.1.5-and-1.0.9-published

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