[imp] newmail_popup not working

[andrew morgan]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 jlewis@lewis.org wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Network wrote:
>
> > > For me, that version of PHP won't work.  Try downgrading PHP to 4.0.3pl1,
> > > and I suspect your newmail_popup will begin working.
> >
> > Jlewis...
> > I was told (and I see from status.php3) that this newmail_popup is
> > javascript code.  What is your reasoning for suggesting I downgrade my
> > php-install?  Please keep in mind i don't code for a living.
>
> Though I have written code in the past, I don't code for a living either.
> I'm a system and network admin.  I haven't looked at the code enough to
> understand the problem.  I can say that the newmail_popup cannot be
> entirely javascript though...it relies on IMP/PHP to make the connection
> to the imap server and actually check for new mail every
> $default->refresh_delay seconds.
>
> All I know is with php-4.0.4, it doesn't work.  With php-4.0.4pl1, I'm
> told it doesn't work.  With 4.0.5-dev from CVS yesterday, it worked, but
> more serious bugs were introduced.  Later in the day yesterday, I saw
> someone post that they were using php-4.0.3pl1, and decided to give it a
> try.

Newmail popups work fine for me.  I'm running:

Server Version: Apache/1.3.14 Ben-SSL/1.42 (Unix) PHP/4.0.4pl1
Horde 1.2.3
IMP 2.2.3

So I don't think it is a PHP problem.  By the way, this is php4.0.4pl1
compiled from source, not a package.

	Andy