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Pré-requis

Cette extension requiert la bibliothèque C cliente. Téléchargez cette dernière version à » https://github.com/uw-imap/imap et compilez-la.

Il est important de ne pas copier les fichiers sources IMAP directement dans le dossier d'inclusion système sous peine de conflits. À la place de cela, créez un nouveau dossier dans le dossier d'inclusion système, comme /usr/local/imap-2000b/ (le chemin et le nom dépendent de votre configuration et de votre version d'IMAP) et dans ce nouveau dossier, créez les dossiers nommés lib/ et include/. Depuis le dossier c-client des sources IMAP, copiez tous les fichiers *.h dans le dossier include/ et tous les fichiers *.c dans le dossier lib/. Additionnellement, lorsque vous compilez IMAP, un fichier nommé c-client.a est crée. Mettez le également dans le dossier lib/ mais renommez le en libc-client.a.

Note:

Pour compiler la bibliothèque C cliente avec SSL et/ou avec le support Kerberos, lisez la doc fournie dans la distribution.

Note: Sur Mandrake Linux, la bibliothèque IMAP (libc-client.a) est compilée sans le support Kerberos. Une version séparée avec SSL (client-PHP4.a) est installée. La bibliothèque doit être recompilée pour ajouter le support Kerberos.

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crabb1d at gmail dot com
11 years ago
For those using Ubuntu and who are completely daunted by compiling this, it's easy under Ubuntu:

Install libc-client-dev
# sudo apt-get install libc-client-dev

Install PHP5 imap:
# sudo apt-get install php5-imap

Restart Apache
# sudo service apache2 reload

Should work for most people.
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allan at umich dot edu
5 years ago
It should be noted that the source code archives at the University of Washington, and the mirrors, have been dead for some time.

There is a github repository located here: https://github.com/uw-imap/imap
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obeco
2 years ago
php-imap package is not available neither in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 nor 8.

To compile the extension yourself:

Prerequisites
# yum install pam-devel openssl-devel

Follow steps 2 and 3 from the previous post of "ldi at email dot cz"

Download the c-client library from github, you can see the link at the top of the page and compile with:
# make lr5 SSLINCLUDE=/usr/include/openssl/ EXTRACFLAGS=-fPIC
(if you are using another distro, instead of lr5 you will type something else, you can view the Makefile for other unix flavors)

Follow step 5 from the previous post of "ldi at email dot cz" which is what the second paragraph at the top of the page explains.

Download the PHP source code of the version installed in your system and go to the php/ext/imap folder.

# phpize
(If you installed the PHP packages from the Red Hat Software Collections you must run the following command before to set the enviroment eg: scl enable rh-php73 bash)

# ./configure --with-imap=<<path_to_where_you_unpacked_the_c-client_library_and_compiled_it>> --with-imap-ssl

# make

This creates the file php/ext/imap/modules/imap.so :)
Copy it to your extension_dir (you can find it in the phpinfo() page).
Create an .ini file in the php.d folder with the text: extension=imap.so

Restart apache and be happy.

P.S. You could probably find the extension compiled out there but who knows the trustiness of the source so better to get the official unaltered sources.
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Anonymous
7 months ago
The Alpine email client which was also originally developed by Mark Crispin at UW also uses the "c-client" library and that it is still actively developed by Eduardo Chappa: https://alpineapp.email/alpine/release/ . It has its own updated copy of the "c-client" library which supports new features like OAuth2 authentication, etc.

The development of the UW IMAP and Alpine "c-client" libraries can be compared via https://github.com/uw-imap/imap/commits/master/src/c-client and https://repo.or.cz/alpine.git/history/HEAD:/imap/src/c-client

If this PHP extension does not work with Alpine "c-client", it might behoove someone to port the PHP so it does.
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