The Old Man

Hi Charles, It's confusing for some though because aren't those 4 mentioned packages all Cloud only? Courses (also Enhanced Courses which mentions offering quizzes etc) aren't available on the Self-Hosted according to this: I don't actually understand why, albeit my only experience so far with Courses was the small one for Providers to complete, which TBH was more like a step-through guide or wizard. Nice experience though! 🙂 Courses appears to the layperson (i.e. me!) just to be an extension of the IPS database and UI like Forums, Blogs or Pages and there's no reason it couldn't be powered on a decent VPS, also the real-time "Who is viewing" or "Who is typing" which sound like AJAX-powered functionality.

Thanks for clarifying Marc. That's expensive. Only having 1 demo/marketplace site makes a 99% loss at the moment!

Yes, Marc was right in that I was referring to providing both an IPS4 and 5 demo/marketplace. I currently have 4 licences and localhost for dev.

It would be nice to have AI providers like the ChatGPT, OpenAI APIs as Community Intergrations like Mapbox, Pixabay, Stripe etc, then allow permitted user groups to have an AI button that brings up a text prompt when composing a blog or pages article etc or even a forum/gallery image.

Ouch! Providers should definitely get significant discounts on multiple licences then. By choosing to retain 2 versions at the same time, we have to decide whether to support either solely the newest version or buy/re-use a second license. We'll have people with existing theme/app purchases expecting to be able to stay on IPS4 but of course, a second group wanting to upgrade to IC5 on the day of release!

Ah, I see thank you for clarifying!

Really well done @Ehren 🙂 Reading through all these new features and improvements made for a great blog post! Clearly, lots of thought and positivity have gone into this side of IC5, and the accessibility improvements are always welcome. Love the new traditional header layout, thanks for keeping that and for integrating the strapline which will save work. So relieved to read that we can still apply hero header backgrounds! Can't wait to see how the light/dark theming configuration will look and work in the AdminCP with both as a single theme; I'm thinking of perhaps adjacent light and dark options for each of the theme's settings to reduce page navigation when creating/editing. Please don't forget to include range sliders and colour with opacity in the AdminCP theme settings. I'd like to see gradient settings and support for the existing stock images option made available in the image upload settings too. A section for user customisation out of the box would be awesome, somewhere where we could add a background or form setting that each user could use to personalise the theme for themselves. e.g. users could choose a hero background image without having to select a whole theme just for the one they want, and the admin wouldn't have to add 10 themes with 10 different header images. Any plans to add Unsplash to the Stock Images API? Nice job and thank you!

I think that's reasonable. It's just the principle of having to backpay potentially up to 2 years to re-enable such a license that is somewhat unnerving. I know it's not unheard of in the software industry practice and no biggie for big tech firms, but from a small business/hobbyist customer perspective, it's less than ideal; if they had the money to do that they would have more likely been able to just continue to renew as normal. It's not like they would have been able to make use of Client tech support or had access to the security and bug fixes during that period.

Hi @Matt Are we okay to run v4 (until EOL) and v5 on the same licensed domain/sub-domain? Asking from a provider perspective, we need to continue supplying v4 themes for a while yet. Many thanks.

Thanks Marc, have a great weekend!

Well, for anyone in the future who is struggling with sending email via IPS with SMTP whether with your own server or external third-party SMTP, I finally got it working after finding an old note to myself after a previous server move! It was my CSF Firewall that was the root cause. Firewall CSF was blocking outgoing email despite all outgoing ports being open. So first step, unlike my temporary fix above to disable this... Go to WHM > Service Configuration > Exim > Basic > Security Then in CSF Configuration Settings... No more empty messages in IPS log, and mail sent immediately.

That’s awesome, thanks for letting us know!

Yes, I’ve double checked it looks like it’s just happening in the DuckDuckGo iPad app, so I will report it is a bug if it’s not already known. It seems if the page contains a Reddit embed as part of the content or if you post such a link in the CKEditor, it immediately loads Reddit. I was just stuck in a loop because the editor was preserving my last typed post so I had to clear it from the editor at just the right moment to avoid being taken back to Reddit!

I just grabbed a random link on Redit and as soon as I pasted it in the text editor, it took me to Redit! https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/16mtap6/spotted_on_thames_today_what_is_this/ Okay, I just tried that on here in the test forum and it did the same thing! I think it’s the DuckDuckGo iPad browser, doesn’t seem to happen in my Safari app.

Thanks Jim, I actually just removed that code from comment on the file in the DB and the page is fine again. So I put it back and the refreshed the page and it took me straight to Redit! I just tried it using default IPS theme and still does it. I only have Chatbox, Supergrid and Nathan’s Contact Us Form Anti-Spam installed but will try without them. Browser: DuckDuckGo on iPad btw.

Hi, I noticed that when I open a page with a file comment that contains a Redit embed, it immediately loads the Redit page taking me away from the page of my community. I couldn’t see the comment as there is no way to stop it loading in the browser so I found it in the database: <div class="ipsEmbeddedOther"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" data-embedid="embed3293672328" data-embed-src="<___base_url___>/index.php?app=core&amp;module=system&amp;controller=embed&amp;url=https://www.reddit.com/r/betterCallSaul/comments/wcuv1h/hey_everyone_ive_scoured_the_internet_and_created/"></iframe> </div> Is the Redit rich-embed broken or has it changed in some way? Thank you!

Yes, I know, thanks Marc.

Thanks, I'm not sure about it as a solution, more a workaround.

I fixed it simply by disabling this option in WHM > Service Configuration > Exim > Basic > Security settings: Require clients to connect with SSL or issue the STARTTLS command before they are allowed to authenticate with the server. It is enabled by default.

Thanks, I wasn't sure why it was not showing any message. I did find something in my EXIM server logs Exim mainlog 2023-09-19 13:48:07.274 [2706523] SMTP connection from [199.xxx.xxx.xxx]:57344 I=[127.0.0.1]:587 (TCP/IP connection count = 1) 2023-09-19 13:48:07.417 [1188149] SMTP connection from vps.hosting.com (smtp.eu.sparkpostmail.com) [199.xxx.xxx.xxx]:57344 I=[127.0.0.1]:587 closed by QUIT 2023-09-19 13:48:07.618 [1188149] no MAIL in SMTP connection from vps.hosting.com (smtp.eu.sparkpostmail.com) [199.xxx.xxx.xxx]:57344 I=[127.0.0.1]:587 D=0.342s X=TLS1.2:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128 CV=no C=EHLO,STARTTLS,EHLO,QUIT So I used SWAKS (the Swiss Army Knife of SMTP) tool to test from the CLI and it reported (sanitised): swaks -server smtp.sparkpostmail.com:587 -tls --auth-user SMTP_Injection --auth-password <**API_KEY>** --to <**TO_EMAIL>** --from <**FROM_EMAIL>** === Trying smtp.sparkpostmail.com:587... === Connected to smtp.sparkpostmail.com. <- 220 2.0.0 smtp.sparkpostmail.com ESMTP ecelerity 4.4.1.18017 r(msys-ecelerity:tags/4.4.1.10) Tue, 19 Sep 2023 12:59:47 +0000 -> EHLO vps.hosting.com <- 250-gb.mta1vsmtp.cc.aws-usw2b.prd.sparkpost says EHLO to 199.xxx.xxx.xxx:46736 <- 250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN <- 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN <- 250-SMTPUTF8 <- 250-STARTTLS <- 250-8BITMIME <- 250-PIPELINING <- 250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES -> STARTTLS <- 220 2.0.0 continue === TLS started with cipher TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256 === TLS no local certificate set === TLS peer DN="/CN=*.sparkpostmail.com" ~> EHLO vps.hosting.com <~ 250-gb.mta1vsmtp.cc.aws-usw2b.prd.sparkpost says EHLO to 199.xxx.xxx.xxx:46736 <~ 250-SMTPUTF8 <~ 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES <~ 250-PIPELINING <~ 250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN <~ 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN <~ 250 8BITMIME ~> AUTH LOGIN <~ 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 ~> U01UUF9JbmplY3Rpb24= <~ 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6 ~> ODU0M2Q4NWdkODUxODM0MDM4YTAzOGZiNmY5ZThkOA== <~* 535 5.7.8 Authentication credentials invalid. ~> AUTH PLAIN AFNNVFBfDIxMmU3Mjc3ZDg1MTgzNDAzOGEwMzhmYjZmOWU4ZDg= <~* 535 5.7.8 Authentication credentials invalid. *** No authentication type succeeded ~> QUIT <~ 221 2.3.0 gb.mta1vsmtp.cc.aws-usw2b.prd.sparkpost closing connection === Connection closed with remote host. I know my API keys are correct.

Hello, My server currently has a problem with emails not being sent via SMTP using Sparkpost. Port 587 is open. No errors were reported at Sparkpost. I've made no changes, but Dovecot is being spammed and rejected to death from Russia more so than usual, aside from that I went looking for clues. When I do an Email Test from the AdminCP, but only this shows: There is no actual text message, just the icon; when I look at the Email Error logs, they are empty.

Okay, thanks Jim!

Hi, I'm a tad confused! I switched off "Allow new registrations" and under Google SSO switched "When a user signs in for the first time" to "Reject the sign in", as suggested below that setting however, a guest can still post before registering. Under the Settings > Posting > General > Posting section there is no option displayed for this feature at all, which I think is correct as I've turned Registrations off. In the Guest member group settings, I have "Require approval before content shows" enabled. Does having this enabled override all the other settings? Many thanks!