Esta extensão requer que a biblioteca c-client seja instalada. Pegue a versão mais recente de » https://github.com/uw-imap/imap e compile-a.
É importante que você não copie os arquivos de origem IMAP diretamente para o diretório de inclusão do sistema, pois pode haver conflitos. Em vez disso, crie um novo diretório dentro do diretório de inclusão do sistema, como /usr/local/imap-2000b/ (o local e o nome dependem da sua configuração e versão do IMAP) e, dentro desse novo diretório, crie diretórios adicionais chamados lib/ e include/. Do diretório c-client da sua árvore de origem IMAP, copie todos os arquivos *.h para include/ e todos os arquivos *.c para lib/. Além disso, quando você compilou o IMAP, um arquivo chamado c-client.a foi criado. Coloque isso também no diretório lib/, mas renomeie-o como libc-client.a.
Nota:
Para criar a biblioteca c-client com suporte a SSL e/ou Kerberos, leia a documentação fornecida com o pacote.
Nota: No Mandrake Linux, a biblioteca IMAP (libc-client.a) é compilada sem suporte a Kerberos. Uma versão separada com SSL (client-PHP4.a) é instalada. A biblioteca deve ser recompilada para adicionar suporte a Kerberos.
For those using Ubuntu and who are completely daunted by compiling this, it's easy under Ubuntu:
Install libc-client-dev
# sudo apt-get install libc-client-dev
Install PHP5 imap:
# sudo apt-get install php5-imap
Restart Apache
# sudo service apache2 reload
Should work for most people.It should be noted that the source code archives at the University of Washington, and the mirrors, have been dead for some time.
There is a github repository located here: https://github.com/uw-imap/imapphp-imap package is not available neither in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 nor 8.
To compile the extension yourself:
Prerequisites
# yum install pam-devel openssl-devel
Follow steps 2 and 3 from the previous post of "ldi at email dot cz"
Download the c-client library from github, you can see the link at the top of the page and compile with:
# make lr5 SSLINCLUDE=/usr/include/openssl/ EXTRACFLAGS=-fPIC
(if you are using another distro, instead of lr5 you will type something else, you can view the Makefile for other unix flavors)
Follow step 5 from the previous post of "ldi at email dot cz" which is what the second paragraph at the top of the page explains.
Download the PHP source code of the version installed in your system and go to the php/ext/imap folder.
# phpize
(If you installed the PHP packages from the Red Hat Software Collections you must run the following command before to set the enviroment eg: scl enable rh-php73 bash)
# ./configure --with-imap=<<path_to_where_you_unpacked_the_c-client_library_and_compiled_it>> --with-imap-ssl
# make
This creates the file php/ext/imap/modules/imap.so :)
Copy it to your extension_dir (you can find it in the phpinfo() page).
Create an .ini file in the php.d folder with the text: extension=imap.so
Restart apache and be happy.
P.S. You could probably find the extension compiled out there but who knows the trustiness of the source so better to get the official unaltered sources.The Alpine email client which was also originally developed by Mark Crispin at UW also uses the "c-client" library and that it is still actively developed by Eduardo Chappa: https://alpineapp.email/alpine/release/ . It has its own updated copy of the "c-client" library which supports new features like OAuth2 authentication, etc.
The development of the UW IMAP and Alpine "c-client" libraries can be compared via https://github.com/uw-imap/imap/commits/master/src/c-client and https://repo.or.cz/alpine.git/history/HEAD:/imap/src/c-client
If this PHP extension does not work with Alpine "c-client", it might behoove someone to port the PHP so it does.