[Phpgroupware-developers] RedHat and IMAP

[Brian Johnson]

I've just switched from a Slackware box to a RedHat 7.3 server and am
experiencing problems with the phpgroupware email app

I previously posted a question to the phpgroupware-users mailing list that
I've included below (it shows the error I was getting)

Basically, I could no longer use the IMAP connection to the IMAP server
(also on the new Redhat 7.3 box)

I've tried the email app, squirrel mail, felilamail, and angelmail - all
with the same results

>From researching the problem over the internet, I think the problem is that
the imap server is trying to establish a secure connection even when I'm
just trying to connect to port 143
(http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.imap.php,
http://rpms.arvin.dk/php/rh72/i586/ and
http://cvs.horde.org/co.php/imp/config/servers.php.dist?r=1.21)

I found a couple of sites that suggested using the /notls connection option
and the /novalidate-cert connection option so you would end up with
something like
{imapserver:143/notls/novalidate-cert}INBOX


I went through all the files in the email app looking for 143 and replaced
it with 143/notls/ and then 143/notls/novalidate-cert but neither of these
worked

I found a file called /usr/local/ssl/certs/imapd.pem and deleted it and now
I get a different error:
There was an error trying to connect to your mail server.
Please, check your username and password, or contact your admin.
source: email class.mail_msg_base.inc.php
called from: /phpgroupware/index.php, index_data()
imap_last_error: TLS/SSL failure for localhost: SSL negotiation failed

It looks like it's still trying to establish a secure connection.

I suspect that others will have the same problem in the near future since
RedHat is a popular distribution.

Would the slashes in "143/notls/novalidate-cert" be replaced with something
else before it gets to the actual connection string?  Should it be
"143//notls//novalidate-cert" to force the slashes to carry though to the
line with the imap_open connection command?


Here is my previous post and the error message I was getting:


 -----Original Message-----
From:   Brian Johnson [mailto:address@hidden
Sent:   Thursday, June 06, 2002 4:40 PM
To:     'address@hidden'
Subject:        Problems setting up phpgroupware on Redhat 7.3 machine

I've been running on a Slackware machine and am trying to switch to a Redhat
machine

I've got everything phpgroupware related running except imap email access

I can log into phpgroupware and use the modules (same as on the other
machine) - but no email

It gives me a errors:

Warning: Couldn't open stream {localhost:143}INBOX in
/backup/piii_651/home/htdocs/phpgroupware/email/inc/class.mail_dcom_imap.inc
.php on line 214
There was an error trying to connect to your mail server.
Please, check your username and password, or contact your admin.
source: email class.mail_msg_base.inc.php
called from: /phpgroupware/index.php, index_data()
imap_last_error: Certificate failure for localhost: self signed certificate:
/C=--/ST=SomeState/L=SomeCity/O=SomeOrganization/OU=SomeOrganizationalUnit/C
N=localhost.localdomain/address@hidden

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: parse_navbar_end() in
/backup/piii_651/home/htdocs/phpgroupware/phpgwapi/inc/footer.inc.php on
line 62


I can telnet to port 143 to prove that the imap daemon is running and I can
get email through a pop client so I know that's running

I've checked phpinfo and it looks like imap support was compiled into php

I'm using the standard RedHat 7.3 apache, php, and imap rpms

My /var/log/secure shows:
Jun  6 15:39:52 Pentium_75 xinetd[13074]: START: imap pid=24437
from=127.0.0.1
Jun  6 15:39:52 Pentium_75 xinetd[13074]: EXIT: imap pid=24437
duration=0(sec)

and my /var/log/messages shows:
Jun  6 14:15:15 Pentium_75 imap(pam_unix)[22561]: check pass; user unknown
Jun  6 14:15:15 Pentium_75 imap(pam_unix)[22561]: authentication failure;
logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=

I'm using phpgroupware 0.9.14rc3

Any idea why I can't get my email through imap?