Re: [cobalt-users] Installing HORDE/IMP, MCAL and PEAR on Raq4

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Mikael Siirilä" <mikael.siirila@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have been trying to get the IMP webmail to run on my Raq4, but it
requires
> the HORDE platform which requires PHP modules such as MCAL, MCRYPT and
PEAR.

Mikael, PEAR is part of the source tarball for PHP.  If you install PHP from
source you'll have PEAR installed by default.  mcal and mcrypt require
installing their respective libraries first.  IIRC, they're not difficult to
install - I've installed both on RaQs.

> Does anyone here have experiences of a successful installation of the
above
> on a Raq4? Should I start adding components or should I expect problems?

I have experience.  I don't forsee any problems.

> I am doing all this to replace Neomail, which is to blaim for most of the
> comments I get from server users. Are there tested alternatives to IMP?

I'm partial to SquirrelMail.  See http://www.squirrelmail.org/.  I've
probably tested another 15 free webmail programs on the RaQs over the last
year or two.  SquirrelMail is my favorite.  Of course, there's commercial
software too, but my direct experience with the commercial options is less
extensive and based on the experience I do have, I find it hard to recommend
commercial software for webmail unless your requirements are pretty unusual
or you need it to scale to thousands of users per box, in which case I'd
probably recommend something other than a RaQ4.  My 2 cents.

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