[imp] how to restore email functionality in a horde install?

[Michael J. Rubinsky]

Quoting "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>:

> > been a while since i was on the horde lists, frantically
> looking for
> > help to migrate horde from a very old debian install to a much
> newer
> > one.  here's hoping this is a simple question.
> >
> >   in the *old* horde directory (down under /var/www/.../horde,
> from
> > back in august), there was an "imp" directory so,
> obviously, email had
> > been configured for use back then.  here's the relevant
> snippet from
> > the old registry.php file:
> >
> > $this->applications['imp'] = array(
> >     'fileroot' => dirname(__FILE__) . '/../imp',
> >     'webroot' => $this->applications['horde']['webroot']
> . '/imp',
> >     'name' => _("Mail"),
> >     'status' => 'active',
> >     'provides' => 'mail',
> > );
> >
> >   as i was doing that migration, i was told that email under
> horde
> > wasn't that big a deal since they were standardizing on
> thunderbird as
> > their email client, so i simply left out copying over the
> "imp"
> > directory; thusly, there is no email functionality in the
> current
> > horde setup.
> >
> >   well, time marches on, and they want it back so is it
> sufficient to
> > just copy over that entire "imp" directory to the
> new horde directory?
> > the *current* registry.php file reads:
> >
> > $this->applications['imp'] = array(
> >     'fileroot' => dirname(__FILE__) . '/../imp',
> >     'webroot' => $this->applications['horde']['webroot']
> . '/imp',
> >     'name' => _("Mail"),
> >     'status' => 'active',
> >     'provides' => array('mail',
> 'contacts/favouriteRecipients')
> > );
> > > (not sure where that new provides element came from, but it
> doesn't
> > look like it would hurt anything.)

FYI - contacts/favouriteRecipients provides an API interface to access  
the most frequently emailed recipients.

> >   in short, the new horde setup appears to already correctly
> refer to
> > an "imp" directory (if one only existed).  need i
> simply restore that
> > entire directory to get back the previous functionality?
> >
> >   NOTE:  we're talking a *very* old version of IMP whose
> directory i
> > would restore.  from the imp README file:
> >
> > :Last update:   $Date: 2004/10/20 06:05:48 $
> > :Revision:      $Revision: 2.21 $
> > :Contact:       imp at lists.horde.org

Wow. That's old.  You don't mention what version of Horde your new  
install is, but it is VERY unlikely that just copying the old  
directory over would work.  Assuming that your new Horde install is a  
recent 3.3.x install, just grab the most recent stable IMP tarball and  
install in /horde/imp

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Thanks,
mike

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