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

[Jan Schneider]

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

> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>
>> 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.
>
> Did this change recently? The documentation in backends.php states  
> (emphasis mine):
>
>
> "- false: Don't use Horde authentication; ALWAYS require separate login."

It doesn't have any effect if you authenticate via IMP anyway. But it  
did have side-effects in the past.

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