A friend of mine came to me asking me to help him write code for his server so that his clients can go on his site and create a webmail account. I told him I'm not a programmer but I googled the subject. I ran into SquirrelMail and was impressed with what it could do. Going through the documentation I saw this
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There are only two requirements for SquirrelMail:
- A web server with PHP installed. PHP needs to be at least 4.1.0.
- Access to an IMAP server which supports IMAP 4 rev 1.
I have php5 running on my XPproSP3 but I don't know if I have the other thing. How do I check if I have it?
Is it one of the defaults on XP?
What about this:
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Configuring PHP
- Without the PHP gettext extension you lose in performance.
- The PHP mbstring extension is required for translations that use multibyte or character sets but ISO-8859-1. Without the PHP mbstring extension the interface will remain usable, but some internationalization features and fixes won't be enabled. It's a must if you want to read and write Japanese emails, and users who whish to do that must also set their language option to Japanese.
- The PHP XML extension is required if the DIGEST-MD5 authentication is used.
Do I have it in php5? Forgive me if I'm asking silly questions. I'm a novice.
Does anyone know anything better than SquirrelMail? Is saw a number at hotscripts but choosing one is just like throwing a dice. We don't want to gamble because he wants to do it for a paying client.
