CUNY Academic Commons

Since the early-Dec snapshot, the production site was modified so that bp-reply-by-email uses 'inbound' rather than 'imap' mode. That means that the Reclaim snapshot was configured to use 'imap'. But the imap PHP extension is not available on that environment. As such, the preflight checks in

bp_rbe_is_required_completed()

were failing. Because of this, the bp-rbe-new-topic plugin wasn't loading its library files https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/blob/9f127777f40b5fd7385709c715e40653fe57a504/wp-content/plugins/bp-rbe-new-topic/loader.php#L18. Elsewhere in the codebase, we call BP_RBE_New_Topic without checking for its existence https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/blob/9f127777f40b5fd7385709c715e40653fe57a504/wp-content/plugins/cac-bp-custom-includes/forums.php#L434. That was triggering a fatal error.

I've manually changed the 'Mode' for RBE to 'inbound' and the problem goes away. This should not be necessary post-migration because the GC production database already has this value saved in the settings.

Ray, as an FYI: The function_exists check here https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/blob/9f127777f40b5fd7385709c715e40653fe57a504/wp-content/plugins/cac-bp-custom-includes/forums.php#L419 is not enough of a safety mechanism for the reasons outlined above. Maybe this is not a big deal - the fatal error caused us to investigate this failure rather than having it fail silently. But I wanted to flag it for you.