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diff --git a/doc/imapstorage.txt b/doc/imapstorage.txt index 0dd663371..f9b3ce39d 100644 --- a/doc/imapstorage.txt +++ b/doc/imapstorage.txt @@ -38,10 +38,14 @@ Installation Notes -------------------------------------- University of Washington IMAP C-Client -------------------------------------- -You will need a source distribution of University of Washington's IMAP -c-client (http://www.washington.edu/imap/). Asterisk supports both the -2004 and 2006 versions of c-client, however mail_expunge_full is enabled -in the 2006 version. +If you do not have the University of Washington's IMAP c-client +installed on your system, you will need to download the c-client +source distribution from http://www.washington.edu/imap/ and compile it. +Asterisk supports the 2007 version of c-client as there appears to be issues +with older versions which cause Asterisk to crash in certain scenarios. It +is highly recommended that you utilize a current version of the c-client +libraries. Additionally, mail\_expunge\_full is enabled in the 2006 and later +versions. Note that Asterisk only uses the 'client' portion of the UW IMAP toolkit, but building it also builds an IMAP server and various other utilities. @@ -70,14 +74,14 @@ Compiling Asterisk ------------------ Configure with ./configure --with-imap=/usr/src/imap -or where ever you built thfe UWashington IMAP Toolkit. This directory +or wherever you built thfe UWashington IMAP Toolkit. This directory will be searched for a source installation. If no source installation is found there, then a package installation of the IMAP c-client will be searched for in this directory. If one is not found, then configure will fail A second configure option is to not specify a directory (i.e. ./configure --with-imap). This will assume that you have the -imap-2004g source installed in the .. directory relative to the +imap-2007e source installed in the ../imap directory relative to the Asterisk source. If you do not have this source, then configure will default to the "system" option defined in the next paragraph @@ -160,9 +164,11 @@ UIDPLUS is currently NOT supported on these versions of UW-IMAP. Please note that without UID_EXPUNGE, Asterisk voicemail will expunge ALL messages marked for deletion when a user exits the voicemail system (hangs up the phone). -------------------------------- -UW IMAP-2006 Development Branch -------------------------------- +This version is *not* recommended for Asterisk. + +------------ +UW IMAP-2006 +------------ This version supports UIDPLUS, which allows UID_EXPUNGE capabilities. This feature allow the system to expunge ONLY pertinent messages, instead of the default behavior, which is to expunge ALL messages marked for deletion when @@ -170,6 +176,14 @@ EXPUNGE is called. The IMAP storage mechanism is this version of Asterisk will check if the UID_EXPUNGE feature is supported by the server, and use it if possible. +This version is *not* recommended for Asterisk. + +------------ +UW IMAP-2007 +------------ + +This is the currently recommended version for use with Asterisk. + ---------- Cyrus IMAP ---------- |