[horde] Help for a novice?

Mon Aug 14 01:28:06 PDT 2006

Ok, after playing around with it I'm getting to understand this whole thing a 
little better now, correct me if I'm wrong...  It would seem that Horde on it's 
own isn't a mail application and the IMP components must also be installed 
under the subfolder "imp" (which I've now done).

The main and test pages now show that IMP is installed, which is great - I now 
also have a Mail option when authenticated as Administrator.

The only thing is now I seem to be getting a fatal error when I go to 
http://webmail.valiante.co.uk/imp.  Also, if I amend the options under Setup I 
get an error when generating the configuration - it says it failed to save a 
backup configuration and also that it could not save the configuration file.  
Maybe I have a permissions issue?

Would someone mind taking a look at my setup and see where I'm going wrong?

Many thanks,

Valiante

----- Message from Valiante <horde at valiante.co.uk> -----
    Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:27:48 +0100
    From: Valiante <horde at valiante.co.uk>
 Subject: Re: [horde] Help for a novice?
      To: horde at lists.horde.org

 I don't seem to be able to find a servers.php file under any of the top-level

 folders, and IMP doesn't exist because I have only installed Horde 3.12 with
 no 
 IMP components.

 If I go to the main page (http://webmail.valiante.co.uk) I'm authenticated as

 Administrator and am able to go through the various Setup tabs, however I
 still 
 can't find any entry for my IMAP & SMTP server settings.

 What I would like to be presented with is a login screen similar to the
 version 
 I'm used to at http://email.ixwebhosting.com/ which then takes me to the 
 relevant mailbox based on the credentials entered.

 Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 Cheers,

 Valiante

 ----- Message from Valiante <horde at valiante.co.uk> -----
     Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:46:20 +0100
     From: Valiante <horde at valiante.co.uk>
  Subject: Re: [horde] Help for a novice?
       To: horde at lists.horde.org

  Hi John,

  My host (IXWebhosting) use Horde as their default webmail interface, but I
  don't believe it's the latest version.  As I have the ability to add
  subdomains on my account and install any interface I want, I thought I'd
  give it a go and as I'm already familiar with using Horde that seemed like a
  good place to start.

  I originally tried Squirrelmail but as this requires running a perl script
  to configure it, I was unable to complete the installation.

  I guess the main reason for doing this at all is because I want to learn -
  and I figure the best way to learn is to just try it and see if I can get it
  to work.  But after looking through the install instructions, it all began
  to feel like learning Chinese - but then if I can get a few translations
  thrown in by those who already speak the language, hopefully I'll be able to
  get going!

  Anyway, I appreciate your response - I'll certainly have a go at amending
  the servers.php file as you suggest, but the only thing that still concerns
  me is the amount of errors I get on the test.php page and also the fact that
  I'm being automatically authenticated as Administrator when I go to the main
  interface (http://webmail.valiante.co.uk).

  Regards,

  Valiante

  > ----- Original Message ----- 
  > From: "John Chiu" <bigmanjohn at hotmail.com>
  > To: <horde at lists.horde.org>
  > Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 4:22 PM
  > Subject: [horde] Fw: Help for a novice?
  >
  >
  >> hi
  >>
  >> if u only need basic webmail function, why useing horde?  i think u'd 
  >> better off go for squirrelmail or openwebmail.
  >>
  >> if u don't have access to a command line, it's very hard for you to 
  >> config any component of horde.
  >>
  >> horde framework + imp would not require any ldap or sql backends, the 
  >> only thing is simply use the default values in configuring up
  >> the horde framework and imp, and to edit the servers.php file in 
  >> imp/config [plug in your umap server ip address] then you're ready
  >> to go.
  >>
  >> cheers
  >>
  >>
  >> ----- Original Message ----- 
  >> ???: Valiante
  >> ???: horde at lists.horde.org
  >> ????: 2006?8?11? ?? 05:37
  >> ??: [horde] Help for a novice?
  >>
  >>
  >> Hello all,
  >>
  >> I'm pretty new to all this and spent most of yesterday trying (and 
  >> failing) to
  >> get Horde up and running on my site.
  >>
  >> The main problem I have is my host doesn't give access to a command line 
  >> so I'm
  >> unable to run config scripts, etc.  Also I don't really know much (if 
  >> anything)
  >> about PHP, LDAP, SQL, or my web server's components or their versions (or

  >> how
  >> to find out what they are).
  >>
  >> I've now gone back to square one, put all the files back to default and 
  >> removed
  >> all the *.dist extensions from the files in the config directory, in the 
  >> hope
  >> that you guys on the mailing list may be able to guide me, step by step, 
  >> into
  >> getting this up and running.
  >>
  >> For now all I want is the basic webmail functionality.  For now (until 
  >> DNS
  >> updates) the site is accessible only through the IP.  Here's a link to 
  >> the test
  >> page;
  >>
  >> http://66.116.204.2/test.php
  >>
  >> Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
  >>
  >> Cheers,
  >>
  >> Valiante.
  >>
  >>
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