[horde] Re: Anyone tried IMP with Exchange 2000 IMAP?

[s-beutel at gmx.de]

> Hi Sebastian,
> 
> Actually I installed the following till now:
> 
> PHP 4.3
> PEAR
> Horde
> IMP
> 

Okay...but which horde/imp?

> The problems I currently have I believe are from Horde/IMP.  I am sure it
> is
> a setup issue.
> 
> What is the proposed default directory structure to use (both virtual and
> physical) in order to try to settle those kind of problems for now?
> 

Horde needs to be in your wwwroot or a subdir of that. Every horde
application (like IMP) needs to be in a subdir of horde. If needed, you could change
this, but it should fit in most cases.


> The horde test.php works perfectly
> The IMP test.php returns all the information however when I try to make a
> test logon it does not work (takes ages to return after logon).  Can I
> test
> with an IMAP SSL account in the test logon section?
> 

What is the error you're getting? IIRC the test.php login only works with
plain IMAP (I experienced problems with cyrus/sasldb and TLS; no experiences
with real SSL [not self-signed]), but usually it should give you some kind of
error information.

Two ways to proceed:

(1) have one external plain IMAP account and try to log in (most webmail
provider have something like this)

(2) given horde is already configured (have a look at the
/horde/config/registry.php and the horde.php), just try to go on with configuring your IMP. As
a first approach, edit the /imp/config/conf.php as follows: mail server
settings section, set server_list to 'none' and all following options in this
section to true (no hyphens - these are booleans). Now, at IMP login, you should
be prompted to enter server, user, pass, protocol etc. manually. Play a bit
'round, and probably you'll find the correct settings.

(2b) as long as the exchange server is accessible from the internet, go to
the horde demo site (I cannot reach it in that very moment...)
http://demo.horde.org/stable/horde/imp and try to find the correct settings from there...

Finally you'll have to edit the /imp/config/servers.php appropriately.

Some more thoughts:

-  is horde already configured?
-  firewall/proxy between the webserver and exchange server?
-  logging enabled? you can log php and horde (certainly you are logging the
server). Any meaningful entries?

Concerning your other question: if you just want to provide a webmail with
no gimmicks, then you won't need a database. But starting with an addressbook
or similar, you might wish to have a database or such - but I guess you want
to keep addresses centrally with exchange, thus no other addressbook needed
(that's my situation in the office - we have another mail server - Tobit David
-, and I wanted to have just a multiplatform webmail frontend - the
webserver is to be changed to Linux). Well, this leads to the question, where to have
all information/login/addresses/dates etc. stored: I hate redundancies. But
if you want to start with mysql: it is not that hard (but we shouldn't bother
the list with this) and _really_ worth a try, at least to see horde's
possibilities.

sebastian