[imp] Using Email Address to Login

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Brian Cosgrove <brianlc at sowired.info>:

> Hello everyone!
>
> I've been reading the messages here and I think I'm on the way to
> solving a problem I'm having.  If someone can let me know if I'm on the
> right track or not, I'd appreciate it.
>
> Here's my situation:
>
> I have the head versions of horde and imp installed on a linux server.
>
> I use IMP for authentication.
>
> My IMAP userid/mailboxes are generated for me by my hosting company and
> can't be changed.  They are in the following format:  the letter 'M'
> follow by six numbers (such as M123456).  The email address would be
> something like brianlc at mydomain.com.
>
> So when I log into my IMAP server I use my userid (M123456) and my password.
>
> I would like to set up horde so that my users can login using their
> email address (which is MUCH easier for them to remember than their
> mailbox).
>
> I thought I would accomplish this as follows:
>
> Create a new 'mailboxes" table that would have two fields, an email
> address and a mailbox id.
>
> I would then modify _imp_hook_vinfo to take the email address that a
> person types in as their horde/imp login, look it up in the mailboxes
> table, find their mailbox id and return that value.
>
> Their mailbox userid would then become their horde id.
>
> Is this the best way to accomplish this?

Yes.

Jan.

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