[imp] PHP frustrations with IMP install

[Oliver Schulze L.]

Hi,
I just want to say that I recently installed:
RedHat 7.1 i386
imp-2.2.6 tar.gz
horde-1.2.6 tar.gz
and it was a breeze. I did not need to install anything else.

Have you tryied the rpm or tar.gz version of IMP ?

How about references in the FAQ system of IMP?

Cheers
Oliver

Robin Whittle wrote:

>Last year I installed horde-1.2.0-pre13 and IMP imp-2.2.0-pre13 - and 
>it was not at all straightforward.   I documented it at length, and this
>has been a very popular page on my web site:
>
>  
>http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/IMP-How-I-did-it/0imp-etc_install.html
>
>I have been told that it has helped a number of people install IMP and
>that one large installation for some high schools in Germany wouldn't
>have happened without my page.
>
>I find that IMP is a bugger of a thing to install.  It requires a series
>of other things, which are not so clearly defined, are highly
>interdependent and which are sometimes horde-specific versions of
>earlier versions of things which are already installed in the server. 
>The IMP documentation goes from one file to another and is really hard
>to follow.  These problems are likely to be invisible to experienced IMP
>users and the developers because you already know your way around all
>this stuff.  For this reason, I wrote up my installation experience in
>the hope that the difficulties I had would help improve the IMP
>installation documentation.
>
>
>Recently I tried to install horde-1.2.5 and imp-2.2.5 on a fresh RedHat
>7.1 system.  Again, I found the documentation convoluted and hard to
>follow.  I got seriously stuck installing the various PHP preliminaries
>- they stopped Apache running.  Please remember that I and many other
>users have no idea at all what these various pre-requisites for IMP do,
>or what they might interact with, or how they might upset in our
>systems.  So when we do figure out which ones to install, and we later
>find that they stop Apache from starting (despite this not being
>mentioned as a possibility), what do we do?    I tried and tried and
>then gave up.  I installed Postman instead.   I am not suggesting that
>Postman does what IMP does and I am sure that it has all sorts of
>security problems which IMP is carefully crafted to avoid - but for my
>limited needs, Postman does the trick.  The attraction for me is that
>Postman is written in straightforward C++ (so it is easy to understand
>and modify, and runs very fast) and doesn't depend on anything else.
>
>Nonetheless, for the benefit of the IMP project, I have put the the
>documentation of my abortive installation attempt on my web site.  It
>contains specific recommendations (in easy-to-spot pink boxes) about how
>I think the IMP documentation can be improved.  The IMP material is
>final section of:
>
>  http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/RH71-Postfix-Courier-Maildrop-IMAP/
>
>I hope this helps improve IMP!
>
>
>Please refer to  http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/ for:
>
>  Postman    How I installed the C++ based Postman web-mail program 
>             (from University of Valencia, Spain) on Red Hat 7.1 with 
>             Courier IMAP, in August 2001.  Includes bugfixes and 
>             improvements.  This is the system I am using now.  Also 
>             something of a comparison between:  
>           
>                 Postman 
>                 IMP      (but from mid 2000, not the latest 2001 
>                           development with searching etc.) 
>                 SqWebMail
>
>
>  SqWebMail My notes on installing the C based Courier SqWebMail program 
>            on Red Hat 7.1 with Courier IMAP. 
>
>
>  RH71-Postfix-Courier-Maildrop-IMAP  Big documentation of how I 
>            installed on Red Hat 7.1: 
>  
>                Postfix 
>                Courier Maildrop - for mail filtering 
>                Courier IMAP 
>                An incomplete attempt at installing IMP. 
>
>
>  Maildrop-mods-filtering  Three things here: 
>
>                DELTAG. Modification to Maildrop to allow for 
>                        delivering a message with the "Tagged for 
>                        Deletion" IMAP flag set. 
>
>                subjadd An external program to add labels to the 
>                        Subject: lines of messages, such as [XYZ].  
>                        (Also adds a subject line if there was none.)
>
>                Notes and examples of Maildrop's excellent mail 
>                filtering capabilities. 
>
>
>  mb2md     A perl script to convert a bunch of Mbox mailboxes to 
>            Maildir format. 
>
>
>  IMP-How-I-did-it/0imp-etc_install.html  How I installed the IMP
>            web-mail program with Red Hat 6.1 and Postfix in July 2000.  
>
>
>   - Robin
>

-- 
Oliver Schulze L.
oliver@samera.com.py
Asuncion-Paraguay