how to restore email functionality in a horde install?

[Robert P. J. Day-2]

  been a while since i was on the horde lists, frantically looking for
help to migrate horde from a very old debian install to a much newer
one.  here's hoping this is a simple question.

  in the *old* horde directory (down under /var/www/.../horde, from
back in august), there was an "imp" directory so, obviously, email had
been configured for use back then.  here's the relevant snippet from
the old registry.php file:

$this->applications['imp'] = array(
    'fileroot' => dirname(__FILE__) . '/../imp',
    'webroot' => $this->applications['horde']['webroot'] . '/imp',
    'name' => _("Mail"),
    'status' => 'active',
    'provides' => 'mail',
);

  as i was doing that migration, i was told that email under horde
wasn't that big a deal since they were standardizing on thunderbird as
their email client, so i simply left out copying over the "imp"
directory; thusly, there is no email functionality in the current
horde setup.

  well, time marches on, and they want it back so is it sufficient to
just copy over that entire "imp" directory to the new horde directory?
the *current* registry.php file reads:

$this->applications['imp'] = array(
    'fileroot' => dirname(__FILE__) . '/../imp',
    'webroot' => $this->applications['horde']['webroot'] . '/imp',
    'name' => _("Mail"),
    'status' => 'active',
    'provides' => array('mail', 'contacts/favouriteRecipients')
);

(not sure where that new provides element came from, but it doesn't
look like it would hurt anything.)

  in short, the new horde setup appears to already correctly refer to
an "imp" directory (if one only existed).  need i simply restore that
entire directory to get back the previous functionality?

  NOTE:  we're talking a *very* old version of IMP whose directory i
would restore.  from the imp README file:

:Last update:   $Date: 2004/10/20 06:05:48 $
:Revision:      $Revision: 2.21 $
:Contact:       imp@...

  yes, i'd want to update that at some point but, for now, just to get
email back, can i grab that old directory?  and would i have to
restore anything *else* from the old horde directory?  thanks muchly.

rday
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[Michael Rubinsky-2]

Quoting "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...>:

> > been a while since i was on the horde lists, frantically
> looking for
> > help to migrate horde from a very old debian install to a much
> newer
> > one.  here's hoping this is a simple question.
> >
> >   in the *old* horde directory (down under /var/www/.../horde,
> from
> > back in august), there was an "imp" directory so,
> obviously, email had
> > been configured for use back then.  here's the relevant
> snippet from
> > the old registry.php file:
> >
> > $this->applications['imp'] = array(
> >     'fileroot' => dirname(__FILE__) . '/../imp',
> >     'webroot' => $this->applications['horde']['webroot']
> . '/imp',
> >     'name' => _("Mail"),
> >     'status' => 'active',
> >     'provides' => 'mail',
> > );
> >
> >   as i was doing that migration, i was told that email under
> horde
> > wasn't that big a deal since they were standardizing on
> thunderbird as
> > their email client, so i simply left out copying over the
> "imp"
> > directory; thusly, there is no email functionality in the
> current
> > horde setup.
> >
> >   well, time marches on, and they want it back so is it
> sufficient to
> > just copy over that entire "imp" directory to the
> new horde directory?
> > the *current* registry.php file reads:
> >
> > $this->applications['imp'] = array(
> >     'fileroot' => dirname(__FILE__) . '/../imp',
> >     'webroot' => $this->applications['horde']['webroot']
> . '/imp',
> >     'name' => _("Mail"),
> >     'status' => 'active',
> >     'provides' => array('mail',
> 'contacts/favouriteRecipients')
> > );
> > > (not sure where that new provides element came from, but it
> doesn't
> > look like it would hurt anything.)

FYI - contacts/favouriteRecipients provides an API interface to access  
the most frequently emailed recipients.

> >   in short, the new horde setup appears to already correctly
> refer to
> > an "imp" directory (if one only existed).  need i
> simply restore that
> > entire directory to get back the previous functionality?
> >
> >   NOTE:  we're talking a *very* old version of IMP whose
> directory i
> > would restore.  from the imp README file:
> >
> > :Last update:   $Date: 2004/10/20 06:05:48 $
> > :Revision:      $Revision: 2.21 $
> > :Contact:       imp@...

Wow. That's old.  You don't mention what version of Horde your new  
install is, but it is VERY unlikely that just copying the old  
directory over would work.  Assuming that your new Horde install is a  
recent 3.3.x install, just grab the most recent stable IMP tarball and  
install in /horde/imp

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