[horde] Beginner question for IMP

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 19:52 +0300, Jari Holopainen wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I have set Horde 3.3 on IIS6 with PHP5.2 and managed to get it working with all other modules but IMP. My problem is most likely related to the pop3 authentication.
> 
> First I tried to use LDAP, but with M$ AD it just didn't work, no matter how many FAQs and instructions I read. The ADSIedit, LDP.EXE and Softerra LDAP-admin works just fine, but for some unkown reason I always got "Unable to login to the LDAP server" error. Most likely some sort of binding problem (tested with LDP at server side and account created for binding worked fine). For PEAR LDAP module I didn't fine any suitable setting for generating loggin about LDAP problems... so, I skipped it for now.
> 
> After strugling with LDAP, I ended up to the ftp-authentication, which seems to work just fine for all but IMP modules. With IMP I have tried in servers.php settings for 'hordeauth' =3D> values true, full, but no success. To the Horde I can authenticate either with just plain username or with username at domainme. I guess IMP tries to add @domainname in case username is used.
> 
> I can't figure out what I am doing wrong, but I haven't managed to get into IMP at all. I see basic IMP settings in Horde settings, nothing else. I gues that somehow ftp authentication and pop3 authentication differs (they both have same AD behind, meaning, same username and password works for both).
> 
> I have read IMP setup documentation quite a few times, but I can not catch what is wrong. I guess it must be something too simple what my old brains j=
> ust doesn't figure out :)
> 
> Help and tips very much appreciated.
> 
> And for developers, excellent job!
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clearly one of the situations where tremendous flexibility causes new
administrators confusion. 

Horde & Imp can be configured to login separately or one can use the
other. For example, probably the most common configuration is to set
'Let Horde Application handle authentication' and configured for IMP and
then you would just setup imp to authenticate against your IMAP backend
and you should have access to all modules with one login.

Another method would be to setup authentication in Horde in one of many
conceivable ways and configure imp 'hordeauth' => true; but this will be
tricky if there's any variance between the Horde login and IMAP login.

I use LDAP everywhere (actually OpenLDAP) but still, I use the first
method above and hooks.php to pull some info from LDAP after the user
logs in.

Craig


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