By Shane Kidd on Tuesday, 15 December 2015
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Just installed Easyblog 5 on Joomla 3.4.5 with Joomla XTC template.

When i click the Test button for Mailbox Publishing, i get the error : Failed, imap is not compiled with PHP.

I have setup the email as a POP3, with relevant user/pword/mailserver etc.

I've setup the cron job in Direct Admin, with the following:
/usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null "http://lakesentrance.com/index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cron";

(I've tried using https:// as well, but no different)

In Direct Admin, it has a "suggested" cronjob format, these being the options:
/usr/local/bin/php /home/lakesdot/domains/domain.com/public_html/script.php
/usr/local/bin/curl --silent http://www.domain.com/cron.php > /dev/null
/usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null http://www.domain.com/cron.php

Any clues?
Hi Shane,

This is most likely because PHP isn't compiled with IMAP. IMAP extension is used for both IMAP and POP. You can try to look this up under your php info and see if IMAP is compiled with PHP. If it's not enable, kindly refer to your webhosting service provider and ask them about the IMAP extension on your PHP.

Hope these help.
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Tuesday, 15 December 2015 16:00
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Hi Ezrul, that's a bit of a bitch.

I am my own Webhoster. To activate IMAP for PHP it is outside of Direct Admins responsibility, and if things "break" there is no support or assistance from the DA support crew. It is not a default setting on DA webservers.

Is there no other way around this. Seems strange that it relies on such a function for Mail to Post to work. Wordpress systems do not require this.

Here's hoping
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Tuesday, 15 December 2015 16:12
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Hi Shane,

I am sorry if my responses earlier might sound offense to you. Currently easyblog mail posting only relies on imap function such as imap_open and imap_headerinfo and there is no alternative for this currently.

By the way may I know if my answer above have resolve your issue here?
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Wednesday, 16 December 2015 17:52
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Hey Shane,

Thanks for updating and if you are still having issues with this, please do start a new thread on our forums and we'll look into your issues
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Thursday, 17 December 2015 18:41
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