What is IMP?
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IMP is the Internet Messaging Program (formerly, among other things,
the IMAP webMail Program), a PHP-based webmail system and a component
of the Horde project. IMP is the most mature of the Horde components,
and is the most widely deployed (thus far!). IMP, once installed,
accesses mail over IMAP, thus requiring little to no special
preparations on the server on which mail is stored.

IMP offers most of the features users have come to expect from their
conventional mail programs, including attachments, spell-check,
address books, multiple folders, and multiple-language support.

This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software.
OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.


Obtaining IMP
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Further information on IMP and the latest version can be obtained
at 

  http://www.horde.org/imp/


Documentation
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The following documentation is available in the IMP distribution:

README        - This file
COPYING       - Copyright and license information
docs/CHANGES  - List of changes by release
docs/CREDITS  - Who developed this
docs/INSTALL  - Installation instructions


Installation
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Instructions for installing IMP can be found in the file INSTALL
in the docs/ directory of the IMP distribution.


Assistance
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If you encounter problems with IMP, help is available! 

The Horde Frequently Asked Questions List (FAQ), available on the Web
at
 
  http://www.horde.org/faq/

The Horde Project runs a number of mailing lists, for individual
applications and for issues relating to the project as a whole.
Information, archives, and subscription information can be found at

  http://www.horde.org/mail/

Lastly, Horde developers, contributors and users also make occasional
appearances on IRC, on the channel #horde on the Freenode Network
(irc.freenode.net).


Licensing
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For licensing and copyright information, please see the file
COPYING in the IMP distribution.

Thanks,

The IMP team
imp@lists.horde.org

$Horde: imp/README,v 2.16 2003/06/04 01:23:31 chuck Exp $
