[imp] imp cvs login/folders problem/patch

[Graeme Wood]

On 9 Jan 2006, at 06:55, Michael M Slusarz wrote:

> Quoting Graeme Wood <Graeme.Wood at ed.ac.uk>:
>
>> Thanks Michael. The problem sounds even more intractable than I first
>> feared.  Is there any way that the code for automatic detection of  
>> this
>> stuff could fail silently and fallback to defaults set in the
>> configuration?
>
> No.  See a previous post of mine (unfortunately, I can't remember
> where it is) when I discussed this.  In a nutshell: we are not going
> to provide a "hackish way" around this because this will result in the
> same thing we were trying to eliminate by changing the code: removing
> any user input (and the *numerous* questions sure to follow) in
> setting the namespace.  The correct solution: fix the IMAP_Client code
> to work properly.

I think the point I am trying to make is that it is probably not  
possible to fix the IMAP_Client code to work properly with GSSAPI  
authentication unless you implement the entire MIT Kerberos libraries  
in PHP, or change PHP. I don't think either is tractable.