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Hellweaver666
Asked: 2010-08-24 00:10:24 +0800 CST

How do I enable the IMAP functions in PHP?

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I have a LAMP box running Ubuntu, Apache 2 and PHP5 with Slicehost. I'm a bit new to all this sysadmin stuff (I'm primarily a web developer).

I need to use the IMAP functions in PHP, but they don't seem to be enabled according to phpinfo(). How do I enable them?

All of the information I can find on the net says I need to recompile PHP to add it, but I don't have a clue how to do that.

Any advice would be most appreciated. Thanks.

php apache-2.2 slicehost imap php5

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Well, that depends on the distribution your LAMP server is running on. For example with Debian you can install the PHP5 IMAP module straight from the package manager with command apt-get install php5-imap.

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  2. Carry out the following:

    apt-get install php5-imap

    However it's not enabled by default so enable it with:

    php5enmod imap

    Then bounce apache:

    service apache2 restart

    Done.

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  3. Check the PHP version:

    $ php -v

    Suppose shows 7.0.32. So your FastCGI Process Manager(fpm) tool version is 7.0

    Now install IMAP ENABLE and ENJOY!! Follow below commands.

    # sudo apt-get install php7.0-imap
# phpenmod imap

    Restart & Enable service:

    # sudo systemctl restart php7.0-fpm
# sudo systemctl enable php7.0-fpm

    Check now.. IMAP is enabled!

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