reconfiguring how IMP communicates with the IMAP server

[Robert P. J. Day-2]

  as a short followup to my earlier post, i just copied over the
previous imp/ directory (very old version of IMP, but that will be
sufficient for now) and installed it under the current horde, at which
point the Mail icon now appears under horde, but no one can log in to
horde mail.

  i'm guessing that's because, in the few months past, someone else
reconfigured IMAP on this server so that it's almost certainly using
different and stronger authentication.  here's the current snippet
from imp/config/servers.php (that allegedly used to work):

$servers['imap'] = array(
    'name' => 'IMAP Server',
    'server' => 'localhost',
    'hordeauth' => false,
    'protocol' => 'imap/notls',
    'port' => 143,
    'folders' => '',
    'namespace' => '',
    'maildomain' => '[deleted].com',
    'smtphost' => 'localhost',
    'realm' => '',
    'preferred' => '',
    'dotfiles' => false,
    'hierarchies' => array()
);

  that this file is now incorrect seems to be demonstrated by recent
entries in /tmp/horde.log of the form:

Nov 04 08:07:59 HORDE [error] [imp] FAILED LOGIN 192.168.169.1 to
localhost:143[imap/notls] ... blah blah ...

  do i just need to track down the person who did the reconfiguration
and ask what he did, and adjust this file accordingly?  and would that
be the *only* file i would need to tweak?  thanks.  once this is
running, i'll be updating all of the relevant horde apps but, for the
moment, the priority is to just get email running again.

rday
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[Michael Menge]

Hi,

Quoting "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...>:

>
>   as a short followup to my earlier post, i just copied over the
> previous imp/ directory (very old version of IMP, but that will be
> sufficient for now) and installed it under the current horde, at which
> point the Mail icon now appears under horde, but no one can log in to
> horde mail.
>
>   i'm guessing that's because, in the few months past, someone else
> reconfigured IMAP on this server so that it's almost certainly using
> different and stronger authentication.  here's the current snippet
> from imp/config/servers.php (that allegedly used to work):
>
> $servers['imap'] = array(
>     'name' => 'IMAP Server',
>     'server' => 'localhost',
>     'hordeauth' => false,
>     'protocol' => 'imap/notls',
>     'port' => 143,
>     'folders' => '',
>     'namespace' => '',
>     'maildomain' => '[deleted].com',
>     'smtphost' => 'localhost',
>     'realm' => '',
>     'preferred' => '',
>     'dotfiles' => false,
>     'hierarchies' => array()
> );
>
>   that this file is now incorrect seems to be demonstrated by recent
> entries in /tmp/horde.log of the form:
>
> Nov 04 08:07:59 HORDE [error] [imp] FAILED LOGIN 192.168.169.1 to
> localhost:143[imap/notls] ... blah blah ...
>
>   do i just need to track down the person who did the reconfiguration
> and ask what he did, and adjust this file accordingly?  and would that
> be the *only* file i would need to tweak?  thanks.  once this is
> running, i'll be updating all of the relevant horde apps but, for the
> moment, the priority is to just get email running again.
>

You can use imp/test.php to test the IMAP connection and get hints how  
to configure imp/config/servers.php .

As you use imap/notls and many recent IMAP-Server don't accept
unencrypted authentication by default. You can try to use TLS or SSL
and check if unencrypted authentication is allowd by you IMAP-Server.

Michael



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[Robert P. J. Day-2]

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Michael Menge wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Quoting "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...>:
>
> >  as a short followup to my earlier post, i just copied over the
> > previous imp/ directory (very old version of IMP, but that will be
> > sufficient for now) and installed it under the current horde, at which
> > point the Mail icon now appears under horde, but no one can log in to
> > horde mail.
> >
> >  i'm guessing that's because, in the few months past, someone else
> > reconfigured IMAP on this server so that it's almost certainly using
> > different and stronger authentication.  here's the current snippet
> > from imp/config/servers.php (that allegedly used to work):
> >
> > $servers['imap'] = array(
> >    'name' => 'IMAP Server',
> >    'server' => 'localhost',
> >    'hordeauth' => false,
> >    'protocol' => 'imap/notls',
> >    'port' => 143,
> >    'folders' => '',
> >    'namespace' => '',
> >    'maildomain' => '[deleted].com',
> >    'smtphost' => 'localhost',
> >    'realm' => '',
> >    'preferred' => '',
> >    'dotfiles' => false,
> >    'hierarchies' => array()
> > );
> >
> >  that this file is now incorrect seems to be demonstrated by recent
> > entries in /tmp/horde.log of the form:
> >
> > Nov 04 08:07:59 HORDE [error] [imp] FAILED LOGIN 192.168.169.1 to
> > localhost:143[imap/notls] ... blah blah ...
> >
> >  do i just need to track down the person who did the
> > reconfiguration and ask what he did, and adjust this file
> > accordingly?  and would that be the *only* file i would need to
> > tweak?  thanks.  once this is running, i'll be updating all of the
> > relevant horde apps but, for the moment, the priority is to just
> > get email running again.
>
> You can use imp/test.php to test the IMAP connection and get hints
> how to configure imp/config/servers.php .
>
> As you use imap/notls and many recent IMAP-Server don't accept
> unencrypted authentication by default. You can try to use TLS or SSL
> and check if unencrypted authentication is allowd by you
> IMAP-Server.

  actually, i think i figured it out.  i just popped into *general*
horde configuration to see how authentication was set up since it
seemed to work properly.  what i got out of that was
imap/ssl/novalidate-cert and port 993.  i just edited imp's
servers.php file accordingly and, suddenly, i can log in to IMP mail.
so, a couple more fairly simple questions.

  i'll let the users test this out for a bit but, if i need to
configure IMP further, can i do that simply by editing the appropriate
.php file?  i realize i can go in thru horde/admin/setup and do it
graphically but, if it's a simple change (like the one above), i'm
just as happy vi'ing the right file.  is that approach equivalent?

  also, those users also use thunderbird for their e-mail so i just
want to make sure they can bounce from t-bird to IMP without having
those two clients fight with each other.  is there anything special i
should configure with IMP that ensures that it will play nicely with
other properly-configured email clients?  thanks.

rday
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Robert P. J. Day                               Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

            Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.

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