[imp] SASL authentication in IMP-6.1.0beta1

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at horde.org
Wed May 15 17:58:30 UTC 2013


Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Arjen de Korte <arjen+horde at de-korte.org>:
>
>> Citeren Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Zitat von Arjen de Korte <arjen+horde at de-korte.org>:
>>>
>>>> I'm currently trying out the latest PEAR beta packages. I can't  
>>>> get the SASL authentication to work. Previously, I've used the  
>>>> configuration in the Mailer tab from the Horde configuration,  
>>>> with the $conf[mailer][params][username] and  
>>>> $conf[mailer][params][password] fields empty. With the -stable  
>>>> versions so far, this has always resulted in Horde using the  
>>>> login credentials (which is what I want, since I use the same  
>>>> credentials for IMAP and SMTP). This no longer works. Both the  
>>>> username and password presented to the SMTP server are now empty.  
>>>> If I hardcode these in the Mailer tab to an existing  
>>>> username:password combination, it works, but this will only work  
>>>> as long as I have one user (myself) on the testing system, since  
>>>> the SMTP server also checks if the logged-in user is allowed to  
>>>> use the sender address. Is this still under development (and  
>>>> should I just be a little more patient) or am I missing something  
>>>> in the configuration?
>>>
>>> Sounds like a bug.
>>
>> I'm not sure. When I enter the same information from the Mailer tab  
>> in 'imp/config/backends.local.php', it works as before. Could it be  
>> this is the future method of configuration of the SASL  
>> authentication and that the Mailer tab will be deprecated soon?
>
> No, the global mailer configuration is still required for  
> applications other than IMP. And authentication with the current  
> user's credentials will always be supported.

FWIW, I require authentication to my SMTP server and it works fine for  
me configured in Horde's config.

michael

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