[imp] badlogins on imap server

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:24:09PM +1200, Mark Borrie wrote:
> 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
> 

There are a few bugs in the IMAP module in PHP-4.0.1pl1

Try this patch and see if it fixes your problem:
http://horde.org/imp/contrib/php-4.0.4pl1-imap-patch.txt

Anil