[imp] reconfiguring how IMP communicates with the IMAP server

[Michael Menge]

Hi,

Quoting "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>:

>
>   as a short followup to my earlier post, i just copied over the
> previous imp/ directory (very old version of IMP, but that will be
> sufficient for now) and installed it under the current horde, at which
> point the Mail icon now appears under horde, but no one can log in to
> horde mail.
>
>   i'm guessing that's because, in the few months past, someone else
> reconfigured IMAP on this server so that it's almost certainly using
> different and stronger authentication.  here's the current snippet
> from imp/config/servers.php (that allegedly used to work):
>
> $servers['imap'] = array(
>     'name' => 'IMAP Server',
>     'server' => 'localhost',
>     'hordeauth' => false,
>     'protocol' => 'imap/notls',
>     'port' => 143,
>     'folders' => '',
>     'namespace' => '',
>     'maildomain' => '[deleted].com',
>     'smtphost' => 'localhost',
>     'realm' => '',
>     'preferred' => '',
>     'dotfiles' => false,
>     'hierarchies' => array()
> );
>
>   that this file is now incorrect seems to be demonstrated by recent
> entries in /tmp/horde.log of the form:
>
> Nov 04 08:07:59 HORDE [error] [imp] FAILED LOGIN 192.168.169.1 to
> localhost:143[imap/notls] ... blah blah ...
>
>   do i just need to track down the person who did the reconfiguration
> and ask what he did, and adjust this file accordingly?  and would that
> be the *only* file i would need to tweak?  thanks.  once this is
> running, i'll be updating all of the relevant horde apps but, for the
> moment, the priority is to just get email running again.
>

You can use imp/test.php to test the IMAP connection and get hints how  
to configure imp/config/servers.php .

As you use imap/notls and many recent IMAP-Server don't accept
unencrypted authentication by default. You can try to use TLS or SSL
and check if unencrypted authentication is allowd by you IMAP-Server.

Michael



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