On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Michael Baierl mail@mbaierl.com wrote:
chasd wrote:
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 ?"
Hi Charles, I have to disagree here - as I already outlined before IMAPS is a bad idea if the IMAP host is running on the same machine as it does not increase security and just slows the system down. So I would recommend using a warning instead of an error and explaining why Sockets might be needed. The same applies to the config file - if IMAPS is required the comment should indicate that sockets are needed and the installer can complain about that fact in the next step when actually SSL is entered.
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 ;)
Some users might have the knowledge to compile PHP by themselves but they are in a restricted environment and can't install it on their server...
Maybe it should be optional - if so, report it please. Again, sorry for the inconvenience. :-)
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