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["Jim Flanagan" <linuxjim@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Jim Flanagan wrote:
>>Does anyone know what PHP-imap extention does? It is a package on the 9.3
>>disks, but I don't know what it is for, the short description in the rmp
>> only
>>says it is not only from imap. It does not install as a dependancy
>>with squirrelmail and one or the other imap versions (cyrus etc.).
>>
> It suppies PHP functions that can be used to write an e-mail client.
> PHP's web site reports that "the underlying c-client library also
> supports NNTP, POP3 and local mailbox access methods." You can find more
> information at http://www.php.net/imap.
>
> Phil Feller
>
Thanks. I had seen that page, but was still unsure what that meant. I
thought the extension provided imap, but apparently provides a means to
write an imap (or other) mail app. Thanks for clearing this up.

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Jim Flanagan
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