Using the stock php-imap-3.0.15-2 package from the Red Hat 6.2 Alpha CD-ROM, I attempted to set up IMP, a web mail gateway package that uses PHP3 to talk to an IMAP server. I used the RPMs horde-1.0.9-1, and imp-2.0.9-1, available from http://www.horde.org/imp/. Although most features of this package worked, it was impossible to delete messages. The IMP faq describes a patch to php-3.0.15 that can fix this: http://faq.horde.org/cache/192.html It would be nice if Red Hat would release an updated php-imap-3.0.15-x package with this patch, or alternately, if they would release a working php-imap-3.0.16-x RPM. I tried using a Rawhide php-3.0.16-2.alpha.rpm and php-imap-3.0.16-2.alpha.rpm package, but it appears that the IMAP module does not actually get loaded into the PHP server. You can see whether the IMAP module gets loaded by following these directions: <http://faq.horde.org/cache/65.html>. I ran into the same problem when I tried to roll my own php-3.0.16 RPM, so if the fix for this is to just release a set of php-3.0.16 RPMS, you'll need to check whether the IMAP module gets loaded, at least on the alpha architecture. To get IMP to work and delete messages, I downgraded the PHP RPMs to php-3.0.14-5 from one of the Rawhide distributions.
The comments at http://faq.horde.org/cache/192.html indicate that this is fixed in PHP 3.0.16. Version 3.0.16-5 of the package fixes the problems with the imap module not being loaded correctly (see bug #11427 for details on the problem). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11427 ***