Php – How to 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.

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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I've had the same problem with an earlier version of Ubuntu (12.04), Apache 2.2.22 and php5-fpm fastCGI flavour of PHP. Doing

service apache2 restart

isn't enough, because it just restarts the http server: you have to issue also the command

service php5-fpm restart

to have the application server restarted and PHP read the php.ini file again.

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Try this in your php.ini instead. The .dll extension is for windows:

extension = php_imap.so

What PHP RPMs are you using? Normally they'll stick their own ini file in /etc/php.d and restarting httpd is all you have to do. Does /etc/php.d/imap.ini exist? If you've mixed up different PHP RPMs or compiled stuff from source, that might be the source of your problem.

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