[imp] User authorization failing for imp (Horde login is ok)

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:

> Quoting Kai Harrekilde-Petersen <khp at harrekilde.dk>:
>
>> Mike,
>>
>> On 08-12-2014 22:01, Michael J Rubinsky wrote:
>>> First, unless you have some specific need not to, you should  
>>> probably be using Application/IMP authentication since you are  
>>> authenticating to the same IMAP server anyway.
>>>
>>> Second, you most likely have not correctly configured  
>>> imp/config/backends.local.php propertly. Look at the 'hordeauth'  
>>> parameter.
>>
>> Bingo! Changing the authentication to Application/IMP finally got  
>> it to work. I only used IMAP because that's what the INSTALL file  
>> suggested.
>> hordeauth is set to false, but that seems to have no ill effects.  
>> Should I worry?
>
> It should be set to true unless you want your users to have to  
> authenticate to both Horde and again to IMP.

Though NOT if you use application/IMP for authentication. Enabling  
hordeauth only makes sense when NOT authenticating to Horde through IMP.

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Jan Schneider
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