i want you all the people in that forum to help me, i want to know how may i install and compile the imap library?. i'm using a linux machine with redhat 8.0 disribution . i know that i've to download by ftp from the university of washington, but i don't know how to install and compile it !!!!

please help me

This Internet resource may be of use to you. It is a very well written article on installing IMAP on linux platforms....

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue35/jao.html

If you have a particular question regarding this, I'm sure the good folks on this forum will be happy to answer it

i'm using linux with redhat 8.0 distribution, i know very well how to install the imap server, there is a imap package in redhat 8.0 , i also know to make the imap daemon working you have to go to /etc/xinetd/imap and set something to yes.

but the real problem is that i want to make imap working with php
4.xx, for this task i've to install the imap library.

i want really to know all the steps to make php 4.xxx working with the imap library?

can you find any document explaining how to do that,?

thanx richhill

Have you looked at this? ...

http://us4.php.net/imap

thanx rich,
but the real problem is that i want some one to explain me in simple way the below document, i mean how to install the c-client library.
"
This extension requires the c-client library to be installed. Grab the latest version from ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/ and compile it.

It's important that you do not copy the IMAP source files directly into the system include directory as there may be conflicts. Instead, create a new directory inside the system include directory, such as /usr/local/imap-2000b/ (location and name depend on your setup and IMAP version), and inside this new directory create additional directories named lib/ and include/. From the c-client directory from your IMAP source tree, copy all the *.h files into include/ and all the *.c files into lib/. Additionally when you compiled IMAP, a file named c-client-a was created. Also put this in the lib/ directory but rename it as libc-client.a."

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