IMAP Check User

[Anon]

I have a portal built with PHP and am trying to authenticate users to my IMAP server to check if they are a valid user. All I want to check is if the user/pass combo is valid and have true/false returned. I used imap_open but with non-valid users I recieve this error.

Warning: Couldn't open stream {server.mydomain.com:143} in /var/my/html/pop3.php on line 4

Valid users work fine. What am I doing wrong?

Brad Pinkston
Centenary College of LA
IT Department
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[jbutler]

Seems like you have the true/false result right there!

Valid users return "true".
Invalid users return the error.

Instead of allowing the error to happen, test the imap_open function for success:

if (@imap_open(...yadda...)) { success; }
else { failure; }

Possibly more simple:

$mbox = imap_open(...yadda...) || failure;

Hope this helps...