On Mar 4, 2008, at 6:54 AM, Michael Baierl wrote:
Thomas Bruederli wrote:
Please let me know what you think of it and what's not working correctly. Thanks!
Hi Thomas,
the install script of stable complains about missing sockets: Sockets: NOT OK but everything works perfectly fine - can you please tell me why
sockets are required?
I believe it is for IMAP over an encrypted connection ( IMAPS ) so if
you don't use IMAPS, technically it isn't required. Since a large
majority of end users will need IMAPS support, it is better to
require Sockets support than to continually answer the question "Why
won't IMAPS work ?"
A "manual" install ( documented at http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/
Howto_Install ) would allow those that don't have sockets support and
don't want to use IMAPS to use RoundCube.
I use Fedora, and the PHP package for that distro includes Sockets
support. I am not sure if the PHP package for other distros is
configured similarly. I think Sockets support is not on by default if
you compile PHP yourself, however if someone is capable of compiling
PHP, they can easily add --enable-sockets when they invoke
"configure." If someone is compiling PHP and _doesn't_ know how to do
that, it might be best for the entire universe if I traveled to their
locale and slapped them. Well, maybe not, that's a lot of bad karma
for me ;)
I think it was a good decision to require Sockets support, and modify
the documentation accordingly.
Charles Dostale System Admin - Silver Oaks Communications http://www.silveroaks.com/ 824 17th Street, Moline IL 61265
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