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As mentioned, installing this GREAT email integration plugin isn't difficult, as long as IMAP is enabled on your server.
It isn't with DREAMHOST.
All the following is based on this, and using a WINDOWS XP machine.

To enable IMAP on a DREAMHOST server, you need to custom compile a PHP5 file.

In order to do that, you need to be able to setup SSH on your WINDOWS computer.

This isn't really a step-by-step, but just some points that need to be done.

1) Select a USER on the DREAMHOST panel that has access to your DOMAIN hosted by DREAMHOST. Change to USER ACCOUNT TYPE "Shell account - allows FTP plus ssh/telnet access."

2) Go here and do what that describes in order to get PuTTy working:
http://www.phileplanet.com/archives/...on-windows-xp/
(more reading here: http://www.wiki.dreamhost.com/SSH , but above link should be all that is necessary)
NOTE: I needed to change the PUTTY setting to CATEGORY/TERMINAL: Local echo and local line editing to FORCE ON, and used the PuTTY comand promt by going START/ RUN / and type putty

3) You will need 3 files/codes.
The first two can be found here:
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/PHP_5_install_script
a) called php5-install-prep.sh ; b) called php5-install.sh
The third comes later....
The easiest way is to COPY those codes, and save them as a TEXT FILE IN NOTEPAD. The simpleton I am, I used file names 1.txt for php5-install-prep.sh, and 2.txt for php5-install.sh
Before saving those files, change the DOMAIN NAME to your DOMAIN in BOTH FILES, in this line which is about line #22 or so:
export DOMAIN="your-domain-here.com"

4) Then follow the instructions here:
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Custom_compile_PHP_5
Pertinent will be this, although you will need to do it TWICE, using the 1.txt file and then the 2.txt file:

Install/Compile PHP 5

Open 1.txt and SELECT ALL and COPY.
Log in to your account using SSH with the PuTTY program mentioned above.
Create a new file in your SSH by entering the command:

vim 1

Hit i for insert mode, then right-click to paste your clipboard (the install script) contents, then hit Esc, type :wq (that's 'colon', 'w', 'q'), and press Enter to save and exit.
Make the file executable by entering the command:

chmod +x 1

Run the script by entering the command:

./1

Now the initial script will install; it will take a few minutes!

Now repeat for the second file:

Open 2.txt and SELECT ALL and COPY.
You are probably still logged in right now...
Create a new file in your SSH by entering the command:

vim 2

Hit i for insert mode, then right-click to paste your clipboard (the install script) contents, then hit Esc, type :wq (that's 'colon', 'w', 'q'), and press Enter to save and exit.
Make the file executable by entering the command:

chmod +x 2

Run the script by entering the command:

./2

Now the final script will install; it will take a few minutes!

After it has finished you will need to edit your htaccess file appropriately. Add the following:
Copy the following and paste into NOTEPAD, and saving it as ".htaccess":

AddHandler phpFive .php
Action phpFive /cgi-bin/php.cgi:

And FTP that file ".htaccess" to your DOMAIN.

Notes:
1) For the SSH session you need to be above your DOMAIN. I.e. you should see such folders as Maildir, logs, yourdomain.com, etc. The .htaccess file however, goes INTO yourdomain.com folder.
2) the FTP program I normally use isn't really good in showing such files as .htaccess, so i downloaded WinSCP free from:
http://winscp.net/eng/index.php


I also did this at the end of this page:
http://www.davidfugate.com/roll-your...eamhost-drupal
cp /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini /home/yourusername/
although I am not sure if that was necessary.

Hope some of this is helpful....