[horde] Starting from Scratch - Mail Not Activated

[Simon B]

On 14 Feb 2015 13:37, "John McIntyre" <joh98.mac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I decided to start from scratch this morning, form a brand new VM.  Using
> yum to install horde, I can get to the ../test.php page, and can get
> 'success' from running the IMAP test.
>
> When I try to login, however, I get 'Mail is not activated'.  Here is my
> /usr/share/horde/imp/config/backends.php..
>
> // IMAP server
> $servers['imap'] = array(
>     // ENABLED by default; will connect to IMAP port on local server
>     'disabled' => false,
>     'name' => 'IMAP Server',
>     'hostspec' => '192.168.1.13',
>     'hordeauth' => true,
>     'protocol' => 'imap',
>     'port' => 143,
>     // Plaintext logins are disabled by default on IMAP servers (see RFC
> 3501
>     // [6.2.3]), so TLS is the only guaranteed authentication available by
>     // default.
>     'secure' => 'tls',
> );

Did you read the bit at the top that tells you NOT to edit backends.php?

Revert that file and copy that snippit into backends.local.php.

If your mail server is on the same host, use localhost or 127.0.0.1

If not, put the correct IP in.

Simon