[imp] adding realm in IMP5

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu>:

> Is there a recommended way to replicate/replace the old "realm"  
> parameter in IMP5?  I have 2 issues I am trying to solve:
>
> 1. I have 8 different IMAP servers.  2 of them are different IMAP  
> servers, but I want to share user preferences between them (we are  
> migrating slowly over time from an old IMAP server to a new IMAP  
> server)
>
> 2. Username is not unique between all 8 IMAP servers, so in the  
> preferences backend (MySQL) I need to have a realm/domain appended  
> to the username.  For example, pref_uid should contain  
> "morgan at orst.edu" instead of "morgan".
>
> In IMP4, I used the realm parameter to accomplish both goals.  I  
> have been reading the backends.php and hooks.php files, but I don't  
> see how to get a realm/domain appended to the pref_uid.

Preferences are stored by the current Horde username.  This can be  
altered from the authentication username by using the 'authusername'  
hook.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]