badlogins on imap server

[Mark Borrie]

I have just noticed that imp is generating a bogus imapd login for every 
(sucessful ?) login. The error that is being generated on the imapd server 
suggests that a login was attempted from an invalid user.

This user name seems to be 5 chars long and the last 2 chars are ^H and ^A.

Has anyone else noticed this or have any ideas as to the cause of it. I have 
been looking through the source but as I'm not that familiar with php I cant 
see where the login request actually gets sent. Any help appreciated.

I am running the following configuration

imp 2.2.6
horde 1.2.6
RedHat 7.1
php 4.0.4p11

Mark.

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Mark Borrie
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Information Technology Services, University of Otago,
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