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Title: IMP-contacts
Post by: Kip on September 25, 2001, 07:14:12 AM

Why is there no place for a email address or phone number? Is there a way to edit the contact form to add what ever you want? It seems to me at the present, its not very helpful.

Thanks in advance for your reply,

Kip

Title: Re: IMP-contacts
Post by: Dan Brown on September 25, 2001, 07:19:25 AM

It's simply intended to store e-mail addresses, that's it.  To add more would require fairly substantial changes to IMP, which would be pointless because the current development version has radically changed the structure to include this information.  There definitely is a place for e-mail addresses, though.

Title: Re: IMP-contacts
Post by: Kip on September 25, 2001, 07:48:22 AM

Hmm. Maybe I have a old version. All I see is 1:address  2:Nickname  3: full name.
and I dont see a place for email address.

Kip

Title: Re: IMP-contacts
Post by: Dan Brown on September 25, 2001, 08:02:37 AM

"address" would be the e-mail address...

Title: Re: IMP-contacts
Post by: Kip on September 25, 2001, 08:14:11 AM

oh!  but of course! thanks.

Title: Re: IMP-contacts
Post by: DJ_Ramjet99 on October 03, 2001, 09:24:28 AM

Hi DAn,

just been on your site and noticed you are running IMP 2.3. How are you finding it ?
If it's stable, any chance of a how-to on upgrading as some of its features (such as adding contacts from an e-mail) would be handy.

Regards and cheers for your previous excellent how-tos

Title: Re: IMP-contacts
Post by: Dan Brown on October 03, 2001, 05:19:05 PM

2.3 is very stable as far as crashing is concerned, and pretty good as far as errors go (which is to say that there aren't many, but I've been having a problem dealing with folders for a while now).  However, it's still in fairly early development--some things change fairly unpredictably.  

Installation is definitely a non-trivial exercise--you need the latest PHP, you need a very recent PEAR (though I understand that the very latest versions of this break with the latest released PHP), you need to get the latest horde and IMP via CVS, and you need to walk through all the config files and make appropriate edits manually.

I wouldn't say a definite no to a howto, but probably not at this time due to the complexity and the frequent changes--makes it difficult to support.  The above should get you started, though, if you want to take a stab at it.  Thanks for the kind words on the other documents!