[imp] Re: Problems Running IMP

[Gene Hurst]

> What are you passing as the imap protocol string?  You probably need
> /notls if you are not using ssl, and if you are using ssl then there
> are multiple possible problems.

I was using "imap," but I changed the protocol string in
/var/www/html/horde/config/horde.php to "imap/notls."  This seemed to
help somewhat in that now I actually get past the login screen, but get
this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in
/var/www/html/horde/login.php on line 33

I do not see any references to this login attempt in any system logs...
not even in /tmp/horde.log.  Before making this change I was seeing
perfectly useless "failed attempt" errors in /tmp/horde.log when I tried
to log in.

I also changed the authentication to use IMP, with "imap/notls" in
servers.php, in registry.php after
making this change and started getting errors saying that the page could
not be found when trying to get to a login screen.  The paths in the
httpd logs looked like either httpd or horde/imp was trying to find the
login page as /var/www/html/login.asp, which of course is not the
correct path, but I am not trying to resolve this issue yet.  I just
remarked the lines in registry.php back out.

> You should be seeing something in your system log files from the
> imap server.  If not, then it might be a deeper issue (like firewall,
> tcp_wrappers, service not running, etc).
> Wouldn't hurt to post them.  But you system logs would also be
interesting.

My logs (horde, messages, secure, httpd, and maillog) show nothing about
the horde/imp problems that I can discern.  I have already checked them
several times looking for a clue.  When I accessed my mail server using
an IMAP account created in Evolution, I saw IMAP connections in the mail
log.  I am not seeing these when attempting to use IMP.

My IMAP installation works fine either locally or over the network.  I
can ssh into the server and make an IMAP connection on the command line
to my account using either localhost or redhat, the name of the server. 
It is running headless so I can't try this from the console.  I can also
connect directly to port 143 from my workstation and connect to my
mailbox using IMAP.  I really don't think I have an issue with a broken
IMAP installation or firewalling.

> There are big imap differences between RH 7.2 (not updated) and RH 8.0
> concerning things like tsl/ssl support.

Yes... this would certainly seem to be true.  This is probably why other
people running Redhat 8.0 are having the exact same issue.  Hopefully we
can work through this and see what it will take to get IMP working again
for people running Redhat 8.0.

Thanks,

Gene Hurst