My new application requires IMAP PHP Extension enabled in the system. I spent quite lot of time by searching by Forum and Internet, still cannot find the right way to install IMAP PHP Extension in Virtualmin environment. As I do not want to install some mess library package on this fresh Virtualmin hosting system, I want to seek for help from your team in this matter.
I help tried these command, and seems php imap has not been enabled at this moment.
You have this the wrong way around php imap requires a mail stack … it’s just a library to manipulate imap functions from within a php script without having to loads of exec’s to the OS in order to get the data required
In such cases (some other 3rd party app like WordPress etc) that requires some other external package to be available surely it is the responsibility of that 3rd party app to make it clear during install (or at least in its documentation) that it requires a certain package or at least tries to install it.
Not down to Virtualmin where it just is not required. But yet again down to the choice of some external pile of
Thats why some people use scripts to deploy and install the php script just as vmin does, I must admit a lot of php coders just seem to list the dependants in their docs and leave it up to the end user to install them all the stuff I code comes with an installer that handles the dependants or if it’s some real basic script I just hope php has been installed correctly
