For those of you sharing my woes, the answer is this. I am using a self signed cert... and needed to add imap/ssl/novalidate-cert to the line $conf['auth']['params']['dsn'] = '{hostname/protocol:port}INBOX'; so it would look like this $conf['auth']['params']['dsn'] = '{hostname/imap/ssl/novalidate-cert:993}INBOX'; -=Tucker