[horde] IMP newbie question

[Eric P. Esterle]

Peter,

Thanks for the reply.  I appreciate it.  This is what I think the deal 
was.  This line in horde.php:
$conf['auth']['params']['dsn'] = '{localhost/imap:143}INBOX'; did not have 
localhost, it had my temporary hostname.  Anyway, after changing this line 
IMP worked fine.  I swear I thought I tried this before though.  Anyway, 
thanks for the help and sorry for the dufus question.

--Eric



At 07:26 PM 9/14/2003, Peter Abrahamsen wrote:
>Eric,
>
>Err, I think you are confused. Sendmail is a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) - it
>moves mail between mail servers, and also accepts outgoing mail from mail
>clients. It only groks SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). You always need
>an MTA.
>
>POP3 and IMAP are competing (so to speak) mail access protocols that allow
>mail clients to read/fetch mail stored on a server. You can authenticate
>against pop3 or imap.
>
>IMP is a mail client. It connects to a mail backend (such as pop3 OR imap)
>to retreive mail, and sends mail through an MTA, such as Sendmail.
>
>It sounds like you want Horde to authenticate via IMP, which can
>authenticate against POP3. I don't know quite what you're using MySQL for,
>except perhaps preferences/sessions. If that's the case, you don't need to
>do any sort of authentication with MySQL save setting up a user (ONE user)
>for Horde to connect as. You should set up at least one server configuration
>in IMP, then uncomment the lines at the top of registry.php to have Horde
>authenticate against IMP.
>
>If that's not the case, please correct me.
>
>Peter
>
>On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 05:03:12PM -0400, Eric P. Esterle wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have a linux box running Redhat 9, Sendmail 8.12.9, and Apache.  All of
> > those are working fine but I have a newbie question concerning IMP and
> > IMAP.  I have used the excellent IMP guide at
> > http://www.geocities.com/oliversl/imp/  as a reference.  Specifically, 
> what
> > is the relationship between IMP, IMAP, POP3, and Sendmail?
> >
> > Before I go any further here are my configuration tests which list the
> > current state of my setup.
> >
> > http://edog.mine.nu/horde/test.php
> > http://edog.mine.nu/horde/imp/test.php
> >
> > My intentions are to use my existing Sendmail server and POP3.  I am
> > wishing to authenticate once through IMP and MYSQL.  MYSQL is up and
> > running and all of the tables have been created.
> >
> > Basically what happens is that I cannot log in, bad username and password.
> > ------------horde.php--------- I have tried changing this to POP3:110
> > $conf['auth']['params']['dsn'] = '{edog.mine.nu:143/imap}INBOX';
> >
> >
> > server="localhost" user="edog" mailbox="{localhost:143/imap}INBOX"
> >
> > bool(false)
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------
> >
> > I am thinking that I have totally not set up the IMAP part correctly.  I
> > was trying to get it to use the existing Sendmail POP3.
> >
> > I appreciate any help.  Thanks.
> >
> > --Eric Esterle
> >
> >
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