[imp] Authentication Failed -

[Simon B]

On 4 July 2016 at 13:07, Simon B <simon.buongiorno at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm having a bizarre issue - I don't think it's in the code, but I'd
> appreciate some guidance as to where it could be.
>
> This morning when I logged in, I got the Horde Portal (as always) and
> when clicking on the Mail link, I got a white screen with
> Authentication Failed and some logs.
>
> My first though was that there was an update (I do a pull from git
> every Sunday) that required a backend change.  I wasn't able to find
> any commit that looked like changed something and when I returned to
> the portal and the config, all the apps were current, all the DB
> schemas were current, etc.
>
> The Horde log has these line in though every time I try to access
> webmail.example.net/imp
>
> 2016-07-04T07:50:45+00:00 ERR: HORDE-BETA [imp] Authentication failed.
> [pid 20861 on line 720 of "/usr/share/git-horde5/imp/lib/Imap.php"]
> 2016-07-04T07:50:45+00:00 EMERG: HORDE-BETA Authentication failed.
> [pid 20861 on line 1678 of
> "/usr/share/git-horde5/framework/Core/lib/Horde/Registry.php"]
>
> However, if I manually change the URL to webmail.example.net/kronolith
> (for example), I am logged in and able to see my calendar.  ActiveSync
> is also working with no issues.
>
> Now comes the weirdness..  If I log in with a different browser, or an
> incognito window - then after reaching the portal and clicking the
> mail link, I am taken to imp as normal.
>

I've closed the browser and cleared cache and cookies (It's FF 45
ESR).  And it's worked.

I'm still wondering:
> Why would imp authenticate in an incognito window/different browser,
> but not otherwise?  And the authentication which is an MySQL call
> against using the same credentials as the imap/mail server?

Especially for it to appear in the horde.log

Thanks.

Simon