IMAP Connection

[tzeench]

Is it possible to make an IMAP connection to my mailbox? I've tried a few ways, but keep getting stumped.

Example below will return "Connection failed":

if(imap_open ("{mail.hostname.com/imap}Inbox",  $user, $pass))
  {echo 'Connection success!';}
else
  {echo 'Connection failed';}

As a side note, I am on a shared server, perhaps this is the problem?

Thanks for your time.

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I did confirm w/ a trouble ticket (WMJ-875739) that the IMAP functions are available. Which leaves to believe it's something w/ the code?

[lnxcode]

Originally Posted by tzeench

Is it possible to make an IMAP connection to my mailbox? I've tried a few ways, but keep getting stumped.

Example below will return "Connection failed":

if(imap_open ("{mail.hostname.com/imap}Inbox",  $user, $pass))
  {echo 'Connection success!';}
else
  {echo 'Connection failed';}

As a side note, I am on a shared server, perhaps this is the problem?

Thanks for your time.

---

I did confirm w/ a trouble ticket (WMJ-875739) that the IMAP functions are available. Which leaves to believe it's something w/ the code?

Im not a wiz when it comes to programming, but I've thought of a few things the above is leaving out:

1. The IMAP port #
2. How is the username, it should you your full email address
3. The host should be mail.yourdomain.com and thats alll (I believe)

[tzeench]

Originally Posted by lnxcode

Im not a wiz when it comes to programming, but I've thought of a few things the above is leaving out:

1. The IMAP port #
2. How is the username, it should you your full email address
3. The host should be mail.yourdomain.com and thats alll (I believe)

I've also tried connecting to the SSL using the following code which does include the port number for the SSL connection:

<?php
if(imap_open ("{mail.mydomain.com:993/imap/ssl}Inbox",$user, $password"))
  {echo 'Connection success!';}
else
  {echo 'Connection failed';}
?>

I wasn't sure on what the port would be for the non-SSL connection, so if you know it, I'm willing to try that...

As for the how the user name is passed via a variable and I am using the entire email address for the user name (password is also passed via a variable):

<?php $user = "me@mydomain.com"; ?>

Thanks again!

[tzeench]

Got it!

Though I wasn't able to get it connect via SSL, but that really did not matter. It looks like I needed to pass the /notls parameter.

/notls - do not do start-TLS to encrypt the session, even with servers that support it

For you info here's the code that worked.

<?php
if(imap_open ("{mail.mydomain.com/imap/notls}Inbox", $user, $pass))
  {echo 'Connection success!';}
else
  {echo 'Connection failed';}
?>

Thanks for your input, it did help me discover this. Sometimes it just helps to talk it out to get the brain going.

[lnxcode]

Hey,

You did all the hard work, glad I could help... not much of a programmer... :P