PHP Authentication Using IMAP

[rgraves]

Hi,

Does anyone know of a good tutorial for authenticating a user using IMAP and storing the information "securely" in a session variable?

I have a script that currently authenticates successfully but the password needs to be stored in the session variable as plain text in order to do so. I'd prefer having the password stored as a one-way encrypted password and then using that to authenticate on each page.

Rob

[planetsim]

Not that i know of you can use one of PHP's encryption functions however at the end i am more then certain IMAP will ask for the Password as Plain Text. Unless you use SSL connection which is some what different and something I cannot explain as I do not know enough about it.