[ZendTo] Re: IMAP authentication issue

[Jules]

Chris,

The only options to imap_open are all documented here:
     http://php.net/manual/en/function.imap-open.php
It does give you quite a bit of flexibility, but I'm afraid I don't know 
anything about problems with Zimbra in particular.

However, a quick bit of Googling produced these:
http://www.zimbra.com/forums/administrators/16950-solved-imap_open-access-mailbox-php.html
http://z-push.sourceforge.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=240

So the answer appears to lie in using at least "/novalidate-cert", and 
possibly by actually doing a POP authentication rather than an IMAP one, 
which the options let you do (see the 1st link above).

Cheers,
Jules.

On 09/05/2011 17:17, Chris Barber wrote:
>> Unfortunately that's exactly the config that worked for me:
>>   'authenticator' =>  'IMAP',
>>   'authIMAPServer' =>  'imaphostname.dundee.ac.uk',
>>   'authIMAPDomain' =>  'dundee.ac.uk',
>> For info, the ancient uw-imap version that we tested against was IMAP4rev1 v12.250, which is very old, but it just worked.
>> Sorry I can't be of any further assistance, we are running with LDAP authentication now, although I did have to modify the zendto source to allow encrypted traffic to our>eDirectory tree ...
>> Hope you get something sorted,
>> Brian
>
> I think I've narrowed the issue slightly but I still can't authenticate with IMAP. I see that Zendto is using the imap_open command in the code. I found that some people have had issues connecting to Zimbra's IMAP using imap_open. However, none of the workarounds I've seen help me. Most people fixed the issue by adding /novalidate-cert at the end of the IMAP server name.
>
> i.e.  'authIMAPServer' =>  'mail.mydomain.com:993/ssl/novalidate-cert',
>
> This didn't fix my issue. Besides, our Zimbra server currently also allows non ssl connections on the default port 143 and I am still getting username or password was incorrect in Zendto when I leave off the options and only specify the server name of mail.mydomain.com for authIMAPServer:
>
> i.e.  'authIMAPServer' =>  'mail.mydomain.com',
>
>
> Does anyone know if there is something I can tweak in Zimbra for this? The zendto code is likely clean so I don't really know if I should be looking there to add an option on the imap_open command maybe?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris

Jules

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