Topic: Courier IMAP/IMP 2.3

[Ludmailla Markowska]

Hi all,
is it possible to replace UW-Imap with Courier-IMAP (http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/)? I think the problem is the user management. Another question is if it´s possible to replace IMP 2.2.4 with the new (Beta) Version 2.3, it´s very cool...

thanks in advance for your help
ludmilla

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[Dan Brown]

Both of these are possible.  To install courier-imap, you'll need to remove the e-smith-wu-imap package (I think that's the name of it), and also remove /etc/pam.d/imap.  It should then install just fine.

To install IMP 2.3, you'll need a few more things.  First, you'll need the latest PHP RPMs--I grabbed them from rpms.arvin.dk.  Second, you'll need CVS (to get the IMP files with)--you can get this off a RH7 CD, or from any RedHat mirror.  Third, you'll need the latest PEAR files from PHP--I don't know of a good source for these by themselves; the only way I know of to get them is to download the latest PHP snapshot from snaps.php.net (or the CVS code), and build it from there.

[Dan Brown]

OK, I've created a tarball of the latest PEAR files as of today's PHP snapshot.  It's located at http://home.earthlink.net/~danb35/pear.tgz.  To install it, do this:

Download the file to somewhere on the e-smith machine.
Log in as root
cd /usr/share
tar zxf /path/to/pear.tgz

This is obviously a less-than-ideal way of distributing the files--once PHP 4.0.5 is released, these should be included in the RPMs that will be built.  For now, though, you'll need to do it this way.

[Ludmilla Markowska]

Hi,
much thanks for your great help!!!

greetings
ludmilla

[Sergei Slobodov]

I have followed these steps:

cd /usr/share
tar zxf /path/to/pear.tgz

but /webmail still shows IMP, Version 2.2.4 ...

Is there some service I have to restart, or template to expand or some other techno-magic I'm forgetting?

Thanks,
Sergei

[Sergei Slobodov]

Aaaahh... Help! I have carelessly installed IMP 2.3, as suggested (but not IMAP), and now I can't login to webmail... maillog shows:

May 22 19:54:35 e-smith imapd[1243]: imap service init from 10.0.0.2
May 22 19:54:35 e-smith imapd[1243]: Authenticated user= host=e-smith..com [10.0.0.2]
May 22 19:55:01 e-smith imapd[1243]: Fatal error user=my login is here> host=e-smith..com [10.0.0.2] mbx=INBOX: Out of memory
May 22 19:55:01 e-smith imapd[1243]: IMAP toolkit crash: Out of memory

Any ideas??

Thanks,
Sergei

[Sergei Slobodov]

Well, the last one was false alarm, the out-of-memory error was caused by a 300MB attachment that arrived just as I was upgrading to IMP 2.3. And I guess I didn't see IMP 2.3 because Dan's tarball only included PEAR, not IMP itself.