[thelist] Newbie throwing herself on your mercy

[John Handelaar]

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% [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of James Mclean
% Sent: 12 September 2002 01:35
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% Subject: Re: [thelist] Newbie throwing herself on your mercy
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% A file with the extension .tar.gz, is commonly called a Tarball, and it
% is more useful to people running a Unix/Linux system. You can open them
% with the various Windows file compression programs such as WinZip etc,
% but again its not all that much use on a Windows system.

It's a PHP application.  The tar.gz fine is just fine with Windows
and Winzip.  Last thing a 'newbie' needs is advice that's just
downright incorrect :-)

% Imp is not really what you may be after if you are looking for an email
% client, because it requires a SMTP server to be installed, ideally an
% IMAP server, and atleast a POP3 server, and as mentioned above PHP and
% Apache.

IMP is an IMAP client.  POP3 isn't supported without it, and
then only to import mail from external POP accounts to IMAP.
Your ISP's SMTP server will work just fine for sending mail.
Whether you need an IMAP server depends on whether or not
your ISP has one you want to use with your account.  I suspect,
though, that in this case the questioner might be on a dialup
connection or wishes to install this stuff on a hosting
account.

In either case, I'm afraid she'll be out of luck.

% Installing Imp, i am sorry to say, may be out of reach at the
% moment for you :(. You need to recompile PHP from source, with the IMAP
% libraries, which are a problem to get working at the best of times

Wrong again, sorry.  Win32's 'large' version of PHP has everything
bundled.

% So, in short it works best on
% Unix/Linux, and if you are not comfortable with compiling programs from
% source, this may not be for you.

Ignoring the compile-from-source part (which is entirely
incorrect), this line may be right even though the reasoning
is buggered:  many PHP apps try sending header and cookie
information simultaneously to manage logins, which IIS does
not support.

However, having run SquirrelMail (very similar to IMP) and
an IMAP server for 2,000 users recently on an NT4 server,
I can vouch that *that* combo does work - but only on Apache.

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