[horde] Unable to login to remote mail server using recommended settings

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Michael Z Freeman <michael at michaelzfreeman.org>:

> Hi,
>
> I have tried everything. I know the password and username are correct
> because I installed Squirrel Mail using my Cpanel hosting to test the
> username en and password. I have ...
>
> <?php
> $servers['imap'] = array(
>     // ENABLED by default; will connect to IMAP port on local server
>     'disabled' => false,
>     'name' => 'michaelzfreeman.org IMAP Server',
>     'hostspec' => 'michaelzfreeman.org',
>     'hordeauth' => false,
>     'protocol' => 'imap',
>     'port' => 993,
>     'username' => 'michael at michaelzfreeman.org',
>     'password' => 'xxxxxx',
>     // 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',
> );
>
> I have tried it as backends.local.php and even removed backends.php
> entirely and replaced it with the above. Nothing ever seems to register.
> Horde brings up a separate login screen. I enter the mail server login
> details which always fails. I don't understand why Horde is asking for
> mail server login details in my browser when they are in the local
> "backends" file.

Why are you putting your *personal* credentials in a *global*  
configuration file?

If your Horde login is also your IMAP login, setup IMP to take the  
credentials of the current Horde user by setting 'hordeauth' to true.  
If it's NOT the same, then you still need to prompt for the login  
credentials.



>
> Log:
>
> Sep 28 18:01:13 18 HORDE: [imp] [login] Error when communicating with the
> mail server. [pid 11074 on line 730 of "/var/www/html/imp/lib/Imap.php"]
> Sep 28 18:01:13 18 HORDE: [imp] FAILED LOGIN for
> michael at michaelzfreeman.org (Horde user admin) (95.145.14.206) to
> {imap://michaelzfreeman.org:993/} [pid 11074 on line 156 of
> "/var/www/html/imp/lib/Auth.php"]
>
> It's also a bit of mystery why, seeing as so much is in the Admin GUI that
> there is this very arcane PHP file. These days almost everything has
> fields to enter the mail server details.
>
> Anyway, I hope users can help me. I may resort to setting up a Dovecot
> server local to the horde installation which can handle the remote
> connection to the email server then horde can talk to it on the local
> host.
>
> Michael
>
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