[imp] c-client issues/questions

Marcelo Maraboli marcelo.maraboli@dcsc.utfsm.cl
Fri, 08 Mar 2002 11:43:20 -0300


try using the

imap-2001.FINAL.tar.gz 
in the "old/" subdir in ftp site...

regards,

"Kevin M. Myer" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I upgraded our PHP install yesterday and also upgraded our c-client library to
> 2001a.  I was hoping to fix the problem with CRAM-MD5 authentication, for which
> the suggested fix ranges from "downgrade to 2000c" to "it works fine for me
> under 2001a".  Unfortunately, with 2000c, I believe I had the problem and after
> upgrading to 2001a yesterday and recompiling PHP, I'm still seeing:
> 
> PHP Warning:  Retrying CRAM-MD5 authentication after authentication failure
> (errflg=1) in Unknown on line 0
> 
> (Incidentally, where is "Unknown on line 0" referring to?  An internal PHP
> function?  Some IMP code?)
> 
> I'm also seeing warnings like so:
> 
> PHP Warning:  Quota root does not exist (errflg=2) in Unknown on line 0
> 
> But the quota function does work, so I'm also wondering where "Unknown on line
> 0" is referring to.
> 
> Finally, after upgrading to c-client 2001a, I broke functionality with a UW-IMAP
> server (our own internal server is running Cyrus IMAP but we also host webmail
> for several other sites).  What apparently happened is that c-client is trying
> to negotiate a SSL/TLS connection, based on the server advertising STARTTLS.
> However, the server doesn't have any certificates installed so this fails and
> c-client apparently doesn't want to drop back to a normal connection.  Nothing
> has changed on the server so it has to be an issue with going from an older to a
> newer version of c-client.  I don't know any way of configuring either c-client,
> or the imap daemon, apart from at compile time, which sort of flies in the face
> of software useability, in my opinion - I guess thats why we use Cyrus instead
> of UW-IMAP here (among other reasons).
> 
> I know these are apparently all c-client issues but since IMP is written in PHP
> and PHP requires c-client to get the IMAP stuff to work, I'm thinking its
> relevant and I'm hoping the collective wisdom of this group can shed some light
> on either similar experiences or perhaps solutions to these issues.
> 
> Are there any alternative c-client libraries out there that work with PHP?  Is
> there an easy way to recompile just the IMAP shared library for PHP, after
> modifying the c-client library, without having to recopile all of PHP?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin
> 
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