15 Jun
2013
15 Jun
'13
12:45 a.m.
At 5PM -0400 on 14/06/13 you (Ben Johnson) wrote:
Thanks Timo and Ben for the authentication suggestions. I'll look into those further. It seems clear that whatever method is used, it has to transmit the user's credentials securely. Plaintext authentication is not an option in my environment.
Thinking about this further, the simplest option is probably just to authenticate against the IMAP server, using TLS. I'm sure PHP (if you must use PHP) has an IMAP library capable of doing that straightforwardly.
Ben