[horde] Current preferred stack for Horde

[Andy Dorman]

On 7/5/18 5:04 AM, Lester Caine wrote:
> I've been slowly moving legacy sites to PHP7 which has become a tedious 
> job when many are still running fine on PHP5.2, but the new servers only 
> have PHP7.0.x currently and I need everything working on that going 
> forward. I HAVE had an install of horde running on one of the machines, 
> but messed up between the initial admin access and creating users. I 
> tried to 'reset' that, but without much success, so having a couple of 
> other machines available just started again from a clean setup without 
> any PEAR installed. I use my own PHP7 compliant PEAR with the websites 
> so do not use the PEAR install normally. The second install did not go 
> as expected and I'm not sure why. All machines are a clean SUSE42.3 base 
> from the same disk, but now I have a working initial admin panel which 
> complains about the 'secret key' when I try to update the main config file.
> 
> Questions ...
> 1 - Knowing that PEAR is no longer 'flavour of the day' with the PHP 
> development team, is Horde stable with PHP7?
> 2 - Alternatively, what is the preferred stack to run it?
> 3 - I'm looking mainly for a local email service that can mirror 
> multiple email accounts and handle a now 40Gb archive of messages. Is 
> Horde the right way to be going anyway? I think I was expecting a LOCAL 
> login to be the default, and then connect to additional remote servers, 
> but that does not seem to be the case?
> 

We are running Debian Testing OS with the following stack:

Apache (latest)
PHP 7.2.x (after replacing our mcrypt code to use the openssl library)
OpenLDAP (auth & prefs)
Cyrus IMAP (2.5)

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Andy Dorman