[imp] imap/smtp server variable

[Jon Parise]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:19:53AM -0400, Cliff Green wrote:

> JP>I'm not sure that will always work.  The conf.php file is sourced
> JP>before the session is started, so $imp won't contain any useful
> JP>values at that point.
> 
> So the question is: when does $imp have what I want?  After login.php?
> It certainly has it by the time redirect.php runs.

$imp will contain values after the session_start() call is
executed in lib/base.php.  It will only contain useful values
after it has been populated by the createSession() function in
lib/IMP.php.
 
> If $conf is global, can it be written to, for example in compose.php?
> (No, it didn't work for me.)

Sure, you can write to it whenever you want, but its contents are
overwritten from the configuration files on every page load.
 
> This is the kind of thing that ought to work -- the bits and pieces seem
> to already be here.

Is there any reason why the knobs in config/servers.php aren't
working for you, instead of munging the variables directly?

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Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member