[ZendTo] Using the IMAP auth and e-mails don't show up from users' address

Travis Zimmerman TZimmerman at fsu.edu
Thu Nov 1 16:33:40 GMT 2018


Yup, that's what I have authIMAPDomain set to already.

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Travis Zimmerman    tzimmerman at fsu.edu     850-645-8030
Linux Enterprise Applications & Systems    its-linuxadmins at fsu.edu
Information Technology Services, Florida State University

On 11/1/18 12:29 PM, Jules Field wrote:
> Travis,
>
> If the students enter their entire email address (username at my.fsu.edu) 
> into the ZendTo login "username" box, then set
>     'authIMAPDomain' => '',
> in preferences.php.
>
> If they just enter their username, then something more subtle is 
> happening which I will need to investigate further.
>
> Please let me know if that helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Jules.
>
> On 31/10/2018 20:56, Travis Zimmerman via ZendTo wrote:
>> I realized I should mention that we are using e-mail addresses to login
>> to our ZendTo service to differentiate between our two domains. Don't
>> know if that would effect how e-mails are sent. Doesn't seem to be a
>> problem for our faculty/staff (AD, username at fsu.edu), just the students
>> (IMAP, username at my.fsu.edu).
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Travis Zimmerman    tzimmerman at fsu.edu     850-645-8030
>> Linux Enterprise Applications & Systems its-linuxadmins at fsu.edu
>> Information Technology Services, Florida State University
>>
>> On 10/31/18 12:09 PM, Travis Zimmerman via ZendTo wrote:
>>> I tried to use my university's AD for the students (there is a previous
>>> e-mail I sent to the ZendTo mailing list about a week ago), but due to
>>> how our Microsoft Admins configured it they needed to use an alternate
>>> attribute.
>>>
>>> Yes. When I login to LDAP or AD and drop off a file, the e-mail sent to
>>> the recipient will show my e-mail address in the From field. If I login
>>> using the IMAP auth the From field lists the servers default e-mail 
>>> from
>>> zendto.conf and the Reply-To field has the IMAP account's e-mail 
>>> address.
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Travis Zimmerman    tzimmerman at fsu.edu     850-645-8030
>>> Linux Enterprise Applications & Systems its-linuxadmins at fsu.edu
>>> Information Technology Services, Florida State University
>>>
>>> On 10/31/18 11:33 AM, Jules Field via ZendTo wrote:
>>>> Travis,
>>>>
>>>> If you are authenticating users against Office365, then why not do
>>>> that with AD?
>>>> I don't quite see why you need to use the IMAP authenticator at all.
>>>> If it's a separate AD forest for some reason, then that's okay, ZendTo
>>>> will happily do 3 different AD forests with independent setups.
>>>>
>>>> So "SMTPsetFromToSender'=>TRUE" works as expected if they login via
>>>> LDAP or AD, but doesn't if they login via IMAP?
>>>>
>>>> What we do here for the "From" address is use an address whose email
>>>> is just automatically trashed, ie. a "no-reply" address. Then
>>>> automated stuff that is replying (incorrectly) to the "From:" or
>>>> (validly/correctly) to the envelope sender will just be thrown away.
>>>> Any human-generated replies will go to the right user.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the info about the option you need to pass to O365. I guess
>>>> that's going to need yet another preferences.php setting.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Jules.
>>>>
>>>> On 31/10/2018 14:49, Travis Zimmerman via ZendTo wrote:
>>>>> I configured the IMAP authentication to allow my university's 
>>>>> students
>>>>> to login to our ZendTo server, but when they drop off files the From
>>>>> field is showing the e-mail address configured in zendto.conf 
>>>>> instead of
>>>>> the student's address. The student's address ends up in the Reply-To
>>>>> field, which normally wouldn't be a problem except sometimes 
>>>>> automated
>>>>> systems reply back to the drop off e-mails and they ignore the 
>>>>> Reply-To.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have SMTPsetFromToSender => TRUE, users that login via LDAP or AD
>>>>> appear to work as expected.
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW I am using the IMAP authentication with Office365 and in order to
>>>>> get it to login correctly I had to change the imap_open line.
>>>>> $mbox = @imap_open('{'.$this->_imapServer.'}INBOX', $uname, 
>>>>> $password,
>>>>> OP_READONLY,1,array('DISABLE_AUTHENTICATOR' => 'PLAIN'));
>>>>>
>>>>> So don't know if you want to add this to the documentation 
>>>>> somewhere or
>>>>> incorporate into the NSSIMAPAuthenticator code.
>>>>>
>>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> Travis Zimmerman    tzimmerman at fsu.edu     850-645-8030
>>>>> Linux Enterprise Applications & Systems its-linuxadmins at fsu.edu
>>>>> Information Technology Services, Florida State University
>>>>>
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