How to Install IMAP for PHP and Apache

Fairly straightforward but I always forget:

sudo apt-get install php-imap
sudo phpenmod imap
sudo nano/etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini

Add imap.so to the loaded extensions:

;extension=php_xsl.dll
...
extension=imap.so

Then reload Apache:

sudo systemctl reload apache2

If you want to see a great PHP IMAP application with source code for managing your email, check out Simplify Email.

Updated on April 18, 2017