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Hello, there,

I'm trying to get imap2soap.pl running on a shared host on which I do not have root access, and which uses a SOAP-less version of PHP5.  

I've installed Mail::Verp and SOAP::Lite, but when I run imap2soap.pl I get a "Class 'SoapServer' not found" error message.  It's been explained that this is result of the SOAP-less PHP interpreter.  

Before choosing my host, I had read the imap2soap.pl documentation and thought that I could use this script despite the PHP situation.  I've read through the page again and again (http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Alternative+configuration+with+imap2soap.pl+-+no+Amavis+or+root+access) but can't figure out what is meant by the following line:

  'If you have a SOAP-less PHP 5, there is a section below on installing SOAP::Lite that you can follow.'

I've installed SOAP::Lite.  Will I need to do a custom PHP build with SOAP enabled, or is there another way to get this script running?

Thanks for any advice,
Andrew

Thanks for the reply.

My custom PHP build slowed CiviCRM to a crawl, so I used a <Files> hook in .htaccess to redirect only extern/soap.php to the new build.  That seems to have worked for the moment, but I'd welcome any other suggestions.

Andrew