Server component UW imap c-client

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Function

c-client is a library for accessing IMAP servers. It is being used by PHP to provide IMAP specific functionality.

Patches

PHP needs to access IMAP folder annotations and PHP uses the c-client library for IMAP access. The c-client library currently lacks annotation support.

Pending patch
Patch source: uw-imap c-client patch
Applies to: imap-2006j2
Description: The patch for the imap library provided by the university of Washington adds the capabilities for setting/getting imap annotations. This is needed for imap caching in the free/busy system of Kolab-2.1. In addition this patch is required to accelerate Horde.
Impact: The free/busy system won't work without this patch. Horde will run slower if not using this patch.
References: Kolab bug tracker merge: ID=10
History: The patch has been sent to the uw-imap developers in June 2005.
Nothing has happened and it has been resent in March 2007.
The developers responded that inclusion of this features currently depends on publication of this draft as a RFC.
This is still pending.

Configuration

This library needs no specific configuration.


Platform specific notes

Gentoo

Use flags

ssl 
Not certain, activated it.
pam 
Not required.
kolab 
Required.

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