Roundcube plugin installer and add-on plugins

[yesbhautik]

Anyone, please help me, with how can I install the Roundcube plugin installer plugin and how to use it?
[roundcube/plugin-installer - Packagist
GitHub - roundcube/plugin-installer: A composer installer for Roundcube plugins]

also, I am trying to install this plugin https://packagist.org/packages/texxasrulez/persistent_login but it requires the plugin-installer plugin in the system.

please guide how to add and active multiple or single plugins. and how to use the plugin-installer plugin.

[sahsanu]

Hello @yesbhautik,

You don’t need to use plugin-installer, just install the plugin persistent_login manually.

Here are the steps:

Note: I’m using latest version 5.3.0 (2023-Aug-03) but you should double check whether there is another version available at the time you are reading this and change wget, tar and rm commands I post below with the correct name and version.

cd /var/lib/roundcube/plugins/
wget "https://github.com/mfreiholz/persistent_login/archive/refs/tags/version-5.3.0.tar.gz"
tar zxf version-5.3.0.tar.gz
mv persistent_login-version-5.3.0 persistent_login
rm version-5.3.0.tar.gz
chown -R root:www-data persistent_login/
mkdir /etc/roundcube/plugins/persistent_login/
cp persistent_login/config.inc.php.dist /etc/roundcube/plugins/persistent_login/config.inc.php
chown -R root:www-data /etc/roundcube/plugins/persistent_login/
ln -s /etc/roundcube/plugins/persistent_login/config.inc.php persistent_login/config.inc.php

Now edit /etc/roundcube/config.inc.php file and add the plugin name persistent_login to plugins array:

Example:

Before:

// List of active plugins (in plugins/ directory)
$config["plugins"] = ["password", "newmail_notifier", "zipdownload", "archive", "managesieve"];

After:

// List of active plugins (in plugins/ directory)
$config["plugins"] = ["password", "newmail_notifier", "zipdownload", "archive", "managesieve", "persistent_login"];

Save the file and thats all, the plugin is installed and activated.

Hopè this helps.

Cheers,
sahsanu

[yesbhautik]

Awesome dude!

same process for other plugins?

[eris]

Yes …

[yesbhautik]

Bro. I have tried to install another plugin
[alfnru/password_recovery - Packagist
GitHub - AlfnRU/roundcube-password_recovery: Plugin that adds functionality so that a user can create a new password if the original is lost]

but its not working as before

tell me if any mistake!

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also guide for removal process of plugin, if plugin doesn’t work or harn other features or don’t want.

[sahsanu]

The name of the plugin is password_recovery, not roundcube-password_recovery so the dirs have the wrong name, and I suppose you used that name inside plugins array… doesn’t matter, that plugin works with postfix and hestiacp uses exim so you can’t use this plugin.

To remove a plugin, edit /etc/roundcube/config.inc.php and remove the plugin name from plugins array (and previous comma) and after that, remove the directories /etc/roundcube/plugins/NAMEOFTHEPLUGIN/ and /var/lib/roundcube/plugins/NAMEOFTHEPLUGIN/