2. [+] Top News newsfeeds are now available in Webmail interface

[Pagemakers]

The new plesk updates says

"2. [+] Top News newsfeeds are now available in Webmail interface"

What are these news feeds? I don't see them in webmail.

 

[carliebentley]

Trust me. You don't want them.

I loaded the newest updates and in Horde Webmail, it placed a "Top News" bar on the left of the window, below the Mail Folder Bar.

The top link on that "Top News" bar was "Click here for a free laptop"

PURE SPAM/SCAM

Why anyone would allow this kind of thing to happen is unimaginable. I ripped the updated version out and went back to psa-horde 3.1.1

Some one needs to be beaten for adding this.

 

[Pagemakers]

Odd. I have the latest updates on all our servers but I do not see this option for Top News

 

[jwdick]

Originally posted by carliebentley
I ripped the updated version out and went back to psa-horde 3.1.1

If you want the update but not the Tops News, you can edit the sidebar.inc file:

edit file /usr/share/psa-horde/templates/portal/sidebar.inc

Just comment out the HTML script call instead.

<!-- newsfeeds -->
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
document.write('<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://'
+ location.hostname + ':8880/javascript/newsfeeds.js.php"></' + 'script>\n');
</script>

And put HTML comment tags around <script></script> as such:
<!-- newsfeeds -->
<!--
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
document.write('<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://'
+ location.hostname + ':8880/javascript/newsfeeds.js.php"></' + 'script>\n');
</script>
-->

I don't remember who posted this solution in another thread,but I would like to thank them, it works great.

 

[Pagemakers]

Why don't I see this new bar on any of our updated servers?

 

[carliebentley]

Originally posted by Pagemakers
Why don't I see this new bar on any of our updated servers?

Perhaps, it is something that was not enabled on your particular install, but otherwise, without seeing the actual configuration of the sidebar.inc file any guess would be pure speculation.

Were I to speculate, I would suggest that perhaps it has something to do with the fact that you're in the UK. But this is just a guess.

Simply be thankful that you don't see it.

 

[Pagemakers]

I see it now. It only appears if you have the menu on the left, not when you have it at the top.

 

[breun]

If you want the update but not the Tops News, you can edit the sidebar.inc file:

edit file /usr/share/psa-horde/templates/portal/sidebar.inc

But updating the psa-horde package probably overwrites sidebar.inc after which you will have comment out the NewsFeeds script section again, right?

 

[jwdick]

Updating psa-horde does overwrite the sidebar settings bringing back the newsfeed. Happened to me and it took several days before I caught it.

 

[breun]

Would be nice if they would just make it an option in /etc/psa-horde/horde/prefs.php. I heard this newsfeeds 'feature' is not present in vanilla Horde, so Plesk added it? People don't seem to like it being enabled by default...

 

[Hostasaurus@]

I've been told by our sales rep that this 'feature' was requested by the high level execs and there are no plans to remove it nor are there any plans to let us disable it in a clean and easy manner; so be prepared to set up cron jobs to hack the code after every patch that comes down. We're thinking of moving on to a different product over this as our customers think we put this garbage there and are either advertising to their customers or trying to make pay per click revenue off of them when really it's swsoft trying to do both of those things to customers they don't have the right to do that to.

 

[Limedrink]

This is just stupid.

It also appears on the "Server Default Page" at http://serverip/.

Very disappointing. Only way to get rid of it is to pull it out of the HTML manually from /var/www/vhosts/default.

 

[carliebentley]

Originally posted by Limedrink
This is just stupid.

It also appears on the "Server Default Page" at http://serverip/.

Very disappointing. Only way to get rid of it is to pull it out of the HTML manually from /var/www/vhosts/default.

Well, I've found that on Plesk Servers, running multiple IP addresses, you must have a "Default" site set up for each IP address otherwise it drops to the /var/www/vhosts/default/htdocs directory.

This has a couple of disadvantages. It means that someone that hits an ip address directly that doesn't have default domain, gets shown the files in that default directory and this action is really unwanted.

Also, if you don't have a default domain assigned for each IP address on the server, there are several "Hack Scripts" that attempt to find, phpMyAdmin, or message boards, or xmlrpc scripts, to hack into the site. My logs used to fill up with this garbage.

While Plesk has it's faults, I'm leaning toward many of the faults also belonging to the underlying OS. I run mine on RHEL, and after quite a bit of kernel tuning and securing, my server is very stable with about 278 sites on it.

I know many people that tout the virtues of cPanel, but in all honesty in a direct comparison, cPanel feels like a badly assembled puzzle when compared to Plesk 8. That's not to say Plesk is complete or perfect, but the things that are "built in" seem to have nice integration.

Heck, if it was a little more secure and flexible, I would just use Webmin. Webmin certainly doesn't have the overhead, and requirements that something like Plesk or even cPanel has.

But, it's pretty nice to hand out reseller accounts and know that they have access, but not to anything that could break the server.