I decide to write this article for sharing my experience, while there is still spare time to write and my mood. let’s begin…
Why What I choose to install from SVN not to install from downloading tar.gz ? that’s very simple to answer. because :
- Install roundcube from SVN, for now always updated (that’s my opinion, and proved correct). I have to try install from tar.gz , and found some bugs and still not updated.
- and I have freer to updating anytime using svn. (masterpop3 suggestion
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Server Requirements :
- Apache, Lighttpd (>=1.4.13 for SSL), or Cherokee Web server
- Directory on the Web server allowed to run scripts
- If using Apache, .htaccess support or configuration to override DirectoryIndex
- PHP version 5.2.1 or greater with
- PCRE (Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions)
- Session support
- Socket support
- MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite database engine
- iconv (recommended)
- OpenSSL (recommended)
- Mbstring (optional)
- FileInfo (optional)
- Mcrypt (optional)
- php.ini options:
- error_reporting E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE (or lower)
- file_uploads on (for attachment upload features)
- memory_limit (increase as suitable to support large attachments)
- session.auto_start off
- magic_quotes_gpc off
- If using MySQL or PostgreSQL, a database server and database user with permission to create tables
- If using MySQL 5.0.2 or later, disable STRICT_TRANS_TABLES and STRICT_ALL_TABLES
- OpenSSL and Socket modules for PHP required to connect to secure IMAP or IMAPS, for secure SMTP and to use the spell checker
- Additionally, the CURL module for PHP is required for spell checking with TinyMCE (HTML WYSIWYG Editor).
- An IMAP server which supports IMAP 4 rev 1
- An SMTP server (recommended) or PHP configured for mail delivery (more…)



