[horde] horde vs chroot

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Fri Nov 11 08:46:01 PST 2005


Quoting Szókovács Róbert <szo at ies.hu>:

> I have a horde installation in a chrooted environment, everything works
> fine, except for imp's spellchecker. After some investigation, I found
> that imp uses php's exec() to call ispell, exec() uses popen, which, in
> turn calls a shell to execute it's argument. The problem is, of course,
> that I don't have a shell in the chroot, and really prefer not to
> install one either.
> My question is this: are there any plans to change this situation, or
> this is an accepted shortcoming?

No specific plans, but if you can install the PHP pspell extension, we 
already have code in HEAD to use it for spellchecking. It wouldn't be a 
stretch to include /use that code in IMP.

-chuck

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